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Chunking Up

Focus Focus Focus

April 14, 2016 by Mark Shepard

32264971_mlFocus.

Focus.

Focus.

Focus.

Focus.

I’m pretty sure that if I were to attend elementary school today, I would be labeled as having ADD.

You know the term right? Attention Deficit Disorder.
(personally I don’t see it as a “disorder”. In fact I would re-define it as “Alternative Direction Distinction”)

They would probably want to dose me up with some Riddle-in.
But what they would really need to do is get the Riddle-Out.

I’ve noticed over the years and in my own intensive research observing myself as well as the people who are different from the “norm” (People who are peak performers and outside of the box thinkers) that the truth is we don’t fit in to the convenient cubicles and cubby  holes that our educational system or our dominant culture wants to stick us…

We are different.

And golly gee wiz
VIVA LA Damn DIFFER-ANCE!

One of the major tasks on this adventure is to discover how your own unique quality of focus can support you.

Personally, I am interested in a lot of different subjects. My big stroke of genius for my own sanity was to realize that literally EVERYTHING I’m passionately interested in fits nicely (for the moment) under the sweet umbrella of TRANSFORMATION.

I am constantly challenging myself to explore and expand my knowledge, skills and abilities in several seemingly unrelated fields at once.

Music. I don’t just play one instrument. I sing, I play guitar, piano, African and Irish drums, the French horn, the flute, the didgeridoo etc. Pretty much anything that can make a sound? I will play around with it. And while I’m no prodigy or master of any one of those instruments, I AM a master of writing songs using them.

Words. I love to read. I love to write. My voracious reading has quite literally provided my unconscious mind with a massive arsenal of ideas and competence with turning concepts into communications.

As a Songwriter, I combine words and music. I take 2 things and transform them into one thing.

I can literally sit down to a blank page or a camera not knowing what I’m going to say and just open up the “channel” and the words flow out. THAT didn’t happen overnight.  But it definitely happens because of the kind of focus I enjoy.

Healing. Over the years I have been absolutely fascinated with the ability of human beings to transform lack of health and vitality into abundance health and vitality. Again. Transformation.

Pursuing that area of interest I’ve apprenticed myself to an energy healer, an herbalist, as well as the top hypnosis and NLP teachers in the world. I also added a precision change model called Time Line Therapy(tm) to the mix as well as EFT (emotional freedom technique or “tapping).

Again, someone else might focus on just one of those modalities and do just fine. I, however, had to explore all of them… because I HAD to master them enough to heal myself. I had to heal myself enough to stop stopping myself from fulfilling my life’s purpose… Every time I worked with a client and didn’t get the result we wanted, I went back to the drawing board and expanded my knowledge and skills and tool set so that I could constantly get better.

Gardening. I used to help other people with their gardens. One day I just had the realization that I loved to grow stuff. I loved growing my own food. I loved planting seeds and watching them grow. In some ways its the same as the great joy I’ve had watching some of my NLP clients and students grow into their greatness by applying the ideas I taught them.

I used to feel deeply frustrated by the fact that I just could not seem to give 100% of myself to any one of the areas of my life I was fascinated with. Because that concept of “focus” meant I had to give up something that I loved.

But when I “chunked” up to TRANSFORMATION,
Boom! Pow! Cowabungah! It all came together.

And while this coming together has taken awhile, a lot of it happened right here in front of your eyes on the Daily Mind Mastery newsletter.

Now.
I told you all that, to tell you this:

There is an immutable law of the Universe that is totally and completely trustworthy:

We get what we focus on.

Your neurology is hardwired to be able to focus on only one thing at a time.

If you focus on how bad everything is. Guess what. You get more “bad”.
If you focus on how good everything is. Guess what. You get more “good”.

But the very nature of “focus” is flexible.

Here’s what I mean:

You can focus your camera on something close like a person’s face or a single flower… or you can even get a specialized camera that can take microscopic photos. That’s one kind of focus. In NLP we call it, “Chunking Down.”

if you’ve been paying close attention to the typos in my newsletters and blog posts, you may be good at chunking down,  the details focus.

or You can focus your camera on a big picture item like a sunset or a distant mountain range.

Either one is still focus.

In Robert Greene’s fabulous book, “Mastery” he contrasts the strategies of two different Masters.

  1. Indian born V.S. Ramachandran, found that he was always happiest when he went deeper and deeper and deeper into a single field of study. As  kid, he started with sea shells and dove so deep into sea shells that he became a leading expert on sea shells. in other words everywhere he looked he would see shells! ;o) (can’t resist a good pun). Eventually he took this way of learning and being in the world to a field of science that was literally untouched, the study of phantom pain experienced by amputees in their no longer existing limbs.That’s the “chunked down” focus. And it works fabulously if that is your inclination.
  2. Then there is the big picture focus of a Leonardo DaVinci or a Buckminster Fuller. They looked everywhere for their learning and began to bring different elements together in unique ways. Some of their ideas were ahead of their time. Leonardo studied the flight of birds as much and with as much passion as he experimented with new kinds of paints and pigments. Buckminster Fuller invented an electric car way before its time as well as the geodesic dome which is still a significant architectural form.Those guys demonstrate the “chunked up” form of focus.

The thing is I used to beat myself up for not being the chunked down kind of person. That’s like a labrador retriever beating itself up because it can’t stop retrieving tennis balls. We need to accept and maximize our native strengths and inclinations. Beating ourselves up for ANYTHING is a waste of energy and a wrong use of “Focus”.

Probably there are those of you out there reading this who may have been beating yourself up for not being the way your aren’t.

Did that make sense?

Let me say it another way. They way you focus the best is the best way for you to focus.

The bottom line is you ARE always focused on SOMETHING. Is it supporting you or stopping you from who you really came here to be?

The more you can practice focusing your mind on who you really want to be, and what you really want to do and who you really want to be with, the more you will get THAT.

I’m sure there are tons of scientific studies I could quote about that but I would prefer if you did a little study of your own….

TODAY. Your assignment. Should you choose to accept it.
Is to

  1. Notice how you focus best.
  2. Consciously focus in that way on what you most desire. Without pressure. without desperation. just hold easily and lovingly in your mind what you most want to be true for your life, your work, your relationships, your health, your vision for a life well lived.
  3. Write down any ideas or insights or confirmations that you get.

Got it?

Good.

Glad we had this little tawk.

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

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Or just leave a comment below 🙂

Onward!

p.s. Here’s a little Transformation Tune that illustrates and supports my message. Damn I’m good! :o)

p.p.s. I hope you’ll join us at our next TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY live event.

Filed Under: Articles, Chunking Up, Clearing Limiting Beliefs, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Dominant Thoughts, Focus, NLP Techniques, Self Improvement, Transformation, Transformation Songs, Transformation Tuesdays

Transformation Tuesdays are Coming!

March 15, 2016 by Mark Shepard

Transformation Tuesdays Are Coming Soon!

There has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes in my life.
A MASSIVE, MAJOR SHIFT.

For years I struggled with what to “focus on” (can you relate?):

  • Should I focus on my music?
  • Should I focus on Storytelling and School Assemblies?
  • Should I focus on Professional Speaking for the corporate market?
  • Should I focus on my Hypnosis/NLP/EFT Healing practice?

And as I worked on each area for awhile, whatever I learned, whatever I discovered, whatever I healed and released in my own life made attempting to “figure out” what I “should” focus on more and more frustrating!

I don’t know about you, but in my life, there are no neat separate little boxes. PLUS the linguistic pattern of “SHOULD” is a clear clue that “Limited Beliefs” or “Limited Thinking” is in operation.

The Unlimited truth is more inclusive:

  • I use music and storytelling in my hypnosis sessions and NLP trainings…
  • I use music and drumming and transformational neuro linguistic language patterns when I’m billed as a “Storyteller”…
  • I can pretty much stand up in front of any group of people from Elementary Schools to Corporate Conferences and find a way to connect with them and deliver the kind of value that they can immediately use to shift their states, transform their thinking and improve their lives… and I can sings songs and tell stories to support it… :o)

So the big shift that has been happening since July when I began to integrate all of my hypnosis/NLP Personal Transformation Programs under the Honest Hypnosis “umbrella” has continued…

If you’ve been following these posts or have taken the stop to join the Transformation Nation VIP list you might remember a couple of weeks ago me talking about “Chunking UP”…

Well, just so you know I do my best to follow my own advice! I’ve been chunking up and by jove! I think I’ve got it!

I’ve chunked up to TRANSFORMATION.

EVERYTHING I do is TRANSFORMATION!

So I can do a multi-cultural school assembly with my Drums, Songs and Stories and still be totally in alignment with my highest purpose. Check out DrumSongStory.com for more info on that.

I can make awesome music with my musical mentor Roger Mock and my beloved music team at Unity church in Albany on Sundays and still be totally “on task”. UnityAlbany.org

I can create courses for you and daily emails and blog posts integrating my transformation tunes and my “Jedi Mind Mastery” Tools and techniques and it’s still on track. Honest Hypnosis Video & Audio Programs

This may seem obvious to people looking on, but most marketing coaches and business experts will advise you to “FOCUS on a NICHE to grow RICH.” And while I definitely benefitted over the years from chunking down into a specific “target” areas like “Anxiety Relief” or even more chunked down, specific kinds of anxiety, like “Performance Anxiety” or “Fear of Flying” or Sports Hypnosis, or whatever,

Ultimately EVERYTHING….
and I mean EVERYTHING
I do is about TRANSFORMATION.

And suddenly it kind of HIT me in the face.

SPLAT!

I NEED TO DO SOMETHING ON A WEEKLY BASIS THAT INTEGRATES EVERYTHING I DO IN ONE COHESIVE PROGRAM LIVE AND IN PERSON AS WELL AS STREAMED LIVE ON THE INTERNET…

(sorry about the shouting but I’m just a little bit…

EXCITED…

as I reflected intensely on this idea, what came to me was that the best day for me to actually do it would be TUESDAY evenings…

TRANSFORMATION Tuesdays.

So. Drum roll please!

Starting TUESDAY April 5th 2016. From 7 pm to 8:30 pm Eastern Time, I am inviting you to join me either in person (if you’re local to Albany NY) or by the exciting “streaming” technology on the  internet.

LIVE! in Real Time!

And I will continue EVERY Tuesday thereafter for as long as it continues to feel congruent. :o)

Here’s what will be included:

Each Transformation Tuesday  event will start with

Meditation Movements – We’ll move our bodies in ways that are specifically designed to increase endorphins, and healthy energy flow throughout the body. We’ll ground ourselves and get the breathing and gentle “tai chi like” movements charging up our fields. This will empower us to transform whatever energy, state, or mood we are in or working through into personal empowerment.

Next, we will begin to use
Intentional Chants, Transformation Tunes and Toning to take that energy process to a deeper, higher, wider, level.

Then once we “tune in” we will bring our hearts and minds together for a
Specific Transformational Intention that will assist each of us to apply one or two simple, powerful Mind/Heart/Body Personal Mastery Tools to our own lives, situations, relationships, etc.

Once we focus on what we want and discover a new way of looking at and experiencing the things we desire to transform, we’ll go into a
Guided Meditation, Visualization, Hypnosis, (whatever you want to label it) to let go of what we need to let go of and internalize and focus our minds, hearts, bodies and spirits on what we DO want…

We’ll then “Lock In The Change” with a few more appropriate Transformation Tunes and “Release the Form” as we bring the evening to a close.

There will also be time at the end to simply hang out and share our individual experiences with each other.

Are you in?

Contact Me and Let me know so I can save a seat for you!

In the meantime, Today’s Transformation Tune is:
Song # 472 Be The Change (use this link or the player at the top of this page)

Your Mind Mastery Assignment for Today (should you choose to accept it), is to play today’s Transformation Tune and then take a moment or two to IMAGINE the current challenges, frustrations and obstacles in your life gently and significantly giving way to wholeness, health, abundance, clarity, freedom, empowerment, joy, love and the absolute best kind of TRANSFORMATION you can possibly imagine…

Got it?

AWESOME!

PEACE, LOVE, GROOVINESS!

– Mark

p.s. Whoops! In all the excitement about Transformation Tuesdays, I almost forgot to give a special shout out to my action taking Transformation Nation members who jumped right in to check out my brand new program, “Hypnosis For PTSD”. A special thanks to Linda, Jeremy, Paula, Starsky, and Ronald who grabbed the 5 Scholarship spots. It pays to watch these emails like a hawk, cuz in addition to the free songs, I give you folks the first “heads ups” about new stuff and cool stuff and stuff that is FRESH and exclusively available to ACTION TAKERS.

The new program, “Hypnosis For PTSD”  is now available for purchase at this link:
http://honesthypnosis.com/ptsd-hypnosis-invitation/
please remember that you are totally covered by my iron-clad, money back satisfaction guarantee.

p.p.s.  I love you. I believe in you. And I imagine you whole, healed, healthy, happy, and radiantly transformed in ways that are even better than you can possibly imagine! :o)

Filed Under: Articles, Chunking Up, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Empowerment Songs, Hypnosis for PTSD, Self Improvement, Transformation, Transformation Songs, Transformation Tuesdays

Chunking UP and The Ecology of Congruence

March 2, 2016 by Mark Shepard

Chunking UP and The Ecology of Congruence

Yo! Transformation Nation!

Today we are exploring the NLP concept of Chunking up and making sure your decisions for your work and relationships are CONGRUENT.

This has been an issue for me as well as many, many of my friends and clients.

How do you discover the “one thing” that truly satisfies your soul? When you love to do a bunch of things… (that all seem unrelated).

What is the “one thing” that just makes everything make sense and brings all of YOU under the laser beam focus that empowers you to make rapid progress, consistently AND sustainably?

19703982_mIn my NLP trainings we cover a subject that actually gives us this power. It’s called “Chunking”.

If you “chunk up” you are going more big picture. If you “chunk down” you get deeper into the details.

Now if you’re like me, you have a bunch of areas of interest in your life, you may have a ton of different talents and abilities that you love to explore and expand. And that’s great!

The challenge comes when we attempt to find a way to make a living that honors many aspects of ourselves and talents at the same time that it delivers real, actual VALUE to SOMEONE who will pay you money for the RESULT you provide for THEM.

(BTW I’m working on a course about MONEY and RIGHT LIVELIHOOD that goes deep with this).

Those of you on my lists who have been reading my emails for awhile have literally seen in action my own process for “chunking up”.

Back in July I started asking,
“How can I combine and integrate all the areas of expertise I’ve developed in my private NLP/Hypnosis practice over the years into ONE congruent, ecological website?

The result is HonestHypnosis.com 

Instead of a website for each and every course (which was driving me crazy), I have one site where ALL my  courses can be accessed in one handy place…with one handy user name and password. scroll up to the top menu and check out “Programs”

BOOM! Shift! (and a lot of work for my wordpress guru Michael Guerin LOL)

Lately I’ve been asking THESE questions:

“How can I integrate my music, my storytelling, my visual art, my insatiable curiosity for personal development and peak performance into my love of Hypnosis, NLP, EFT, Timeline Therapy, Energy Healing and  “NON-Religious Spirituality?”

also:

“How can I do one single email and blog post each day that gracefully honors my gifts and talents and personal transformation journey in a way that supports, encourages and inspires YOURS?”

HOWEVER!

In the process of asking these questions it was clear to me that I can no longer separate out my music from my transformation work.

So today we have a mind mastery tip and challenge about “chunking” AND a song that supports the concept and acts as an instant, “Wide Awake” hypnosis session.

So here’s the NLP “Mind Mastery” idea:
To chunk up to a bigger picture that includes all the stuff you love and desire in your “one thing” you simply ask

“What is this an example of?”

To illustrate simply – Think about a car. Now ask, “What is this an example of?” And you might get, “vehicle”…

then ask “What is a vehicle an example of?” and you might get “Transportation”

Then ask, “What is transportation an example of?” And you might get “movement”.

Of Course there’s a point where you’ve chunked up enough… and that’s where you are chunked high enough so that everything you love doing is an example of a single, focused, higher level of thinking…

So I asked myself, “what is my music an example of?”
And “what are all these cool mind mastery techniques examples of?”

I got HYPNOSIS… what is hypnosis an example of? and I got, Transformational Communication…

What this is all about, what I am all about is communicating to myself and others in a way that positively transforms our challenges and struggles into an empowered experience of being fully alive.

Boom! Shazaam! Oya moochka hannah hee knee!

COW-A-BUN-GAH!

Now I can work on whatever moves me every day and STILL be on target, on track on focus.

Does that make sense? Do you see it clearly? How does that feel? Does that ring a bell?

For years I struggled with “Do I do MUSIC?” or “Do I Do NLP/Hypnosis?” But suddenly it is brilliantly clear.

IT IS ALL THE SAME THING! Transformational Communication!

And all of a sudden…. Ahhhhh. Congruence. Everything is in alignment. It is suddenly ECOLOGICAL for me to connect with you daily and share a song AND and idea…. through the written word, the spoken word, the SUNG word…. and what are “words” examples of? Communication!

And if the words and ideas are about transforming your life, then we have my dear friend, TRANSFORMATIONAL COMMUNICATION.

The hound that chases two rabbits catches none! Focus is important, but if you chunk high enough your “focus” can include multiple “rabbits” – YOUR multiple talents, abilities and interests.

So your assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to “Chunk up” in your life and see what you get.

As always I am happy to answer your questions so feel free to Contact Me

And the soundtrack for that transformational process today is Rise Up And Dance


This “wide awake hypnosis session in song” was written at a pivotal moment at the very beginning of my transformation adventure. And no matter where YOU are on your journey there is a powerful message in the song that can ignite and confirm your passionate power to create change, healing and transformation in your own life.

Enjoy!

Cowabungah!

I will see YOU on the inside!

– Mark

p.s. I’m heading down to the recording studio today to record some more of the new tunes that are DELUGING me. I still have a ton of new videos to share with you, and a bunch of new courses in progress so YOU will hear about those soon…

Filed Under: Articles, Chunking Up, Congruence & Ecology, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Empowerment Songs, Hypnosis for Life Purpose, Hypnosis for Self Esteem, Innovative Thinking, Keys To Cowabungah, Self Improvement, Transformation, Transformation Songs

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