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The Best Hypnosis Session In The History Of The World

May 9, 2018 by Mark Shepard

This is arguably THE best hypnosis session in the history of the world.

But it’s not by a hypnotist… But an amazing thought leader who you might consider paying attention to…

It takes less than 5 minutes. (the actual active session is 2 minutes of CONCENTRATED, PURE  GOLD PLATINUM). YOU are worth it. Take the time to watch it before you do anything else. Seriously.

Thoughts?

Talk to me

  • Mark

p.s. If you’re local to Albany NY I will be doing a public, local Sound Healing Hypnosis Session at Heartspace Yoga, 2-3ish pm, 747 Madison Av, Albany NY. If you’re not local, I will post the video here as soon as I can. Thank you again for your willingness to pay attention…

to what is happening…

and I will see YOU on the Inside…

boom!

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I’ve spent the last 25 years researching and applying personal healing and transformation tools to my own life as well as a close circle of students who I’ve worked and collaborated with as well as hundreds of thousands of people online. I started putting what I have learned and what I continue to learn and practice into a growing library of specific courses that walk you through step by step some of the most challenging experiences life has to offer:

Anxiety? Crush it!

Shyness? Forget how to do it!

Fear? Face it, Feel it and Release it!

Lost your mojo? GET IT BACK!

Struggling to get over a breakup? Let it GO!

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Filed Under: Creating Change, Cultural Conditioning, Dreams

Overcoming The Victim Mind Cage Part 2

May 4, 2017 by Mark Shepard

It’s Day 26 of 90 Day Transformation Challenge #5, How are YOU doing?

I’ve gotten a flurry of strong, positive responses to yesterday’s controversial conversational hypnosis post, “Overcoming the Victim Mind Cage.”

Here’s what Linda wrote,

Hello Mark,
I had a real good ASS kicking from you last evening when I listened to your podcast. That was for me. I listened to it 3 times and realized how much and how long I have been wallowing in this shit. The points that hit me:

  • I have success, get tested and I resist, resort to crying, handringing, and why me when things get a bit hard. The sustaining of success has been an issue. I have thought it was supposed to be easy, but it is not!!
  • Grow up, step into your shit, it’s mine, I can clean it up, I am not a victim, but creating my own pain, feeling so sorry for myself. Why do I have to learn the hard frickin way?
  • most of my thoughts have been failing thoughts about failing and never getting over GAD because I believe the physical sensations which can be overpowering. You called it wallowing in self indulging pain.

Thank you Mark for kicking my ass and I don’t feel judged at all-just know you are right. I need to kick anxiety’s ass, but fearful it would turn on me and it would get worse.  Thank you!!     – Linda

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Paula wrote:

Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just what I needed to hear, and so beautifully expressed!
And I was also so pleasantly surprised by the song [Can You Imagine] — I hadn’t heard this before!  What a fantastic surpise!
I feel like I’ve opened wonderfully-packaged priceless gifts from you today!    Thank you!!!
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Here’s my response:

Hey Linda and Paula and everybody else!

Thank you so much for receiving that message in the spirit it was intended. Not as judgment or criticism because the intention is to help all of us move through the same “field.”  I’m not placing myself above any of this because I experience the same thing.

I just see it over and over and over again in my own life as well as in the clients I’ve worked with over the last 15 years. They all seem to want me to fix them. They seem to want me to wave my magic hypnosis wand or NLP wand and “Heal” them. Preferably in a single 10 minute session.

And who can blame them? It makes sense. When we take our car to the mechanic, we want it fixed. Logical.

But in personal transformation work, the problem is not a “car” but our process of interacting with reality.

And that’s always an inside job. AND it’s the farthest thing from LOGICAL. The problem is almost always in the conflict between what our conscious mind thinks things should be like… and what the unconscious mind is responding to… None of which is “fact,” but PERCEPTION. And again, NOT LOGICAL…

Working with clients, I can often get them a shift and I can see them making progress but many of them seem to just abandon themselves when the least little thing shows up to test their new “program” and they run scared back to the old familiar place. In some cases they would BLAME ME! (for not FIXING THEM PERMANENTLY…)

Because at least it’s familiar. It may be painful, shitty, horrible even. But it’s the elephant in the room they KNOW.

But the only way out is THROUGH. And the only way THROUGH is to ACCEPT what I call, “Response-Ability.” We can’t always change external events but we certainly can change how we respond, how we interpret, how we think about events…

For example, I climbed a mountain with my friends Mike and Brett… I was in my 50’s THEY were in their 20’s.

About halfway up this fucking mountain in the middle of winter (the 2nd tallest in NY State’s Adirondack Part), I just wanted to go home. But I couldn’t. And once I got up to the summit, I couldn’t care less about the fucking view. It was 15 degrees below zero with gusting winds up to 40 mph. I just wanted to get back down off that fucker without breaking a leg or dying of hypothermia…

It was one of those ALL day ordeals… and I couldn’t wait for it to be over. And I was pissed. and whiny (inside). I tried not to bitch too much out loud but I was wanting to quit big time…But the only way to get out was the same way we went in. Walking. On my own two feet. There were no “stops” to get off.

I had to just tough it out and finish what I’d started…  Mike and Brett couldn’t carry me. I had to move one foot in front of the other… thousands and thousands of footsteps… I started counting them and chanting,

“1, why does it work out better than I can possibly imagine…

2, Why does it work out better than I can possibly imagine…

3, Why does it work out better than I can possibly imagine…”

Every time I got to a 1,000 steps I started over again…” Eventually Mike and Brett were waaaay ahead of me and I was alone in the falling dark… taking it one step at a time… almost delirious with fatigue and cold.and you know what?

EVENTUALLY I got back to the car…. and it was already warmed up. And I didn’t break my neck or freeze to death. And it felt really, good to simply be alive and safe.

In retrospect, I’m really glad I did it. LOL… It felt even better a couple of days later looking back on it.

NOW?

Two years after the “ordeal” It seems FABULOUS! HEROIC! LEGENDARY! LOL. And I’ve now used that story to illustrate a point… Cowabungah! Got me some VALUE out of that EXPERIENCE… That excruciatingly UNCOMFORTABLE experience.

But the whole point of yesterdays video, “Overcoming The Victim Mind Cage” is that we often don’t even get half way up the mountain in our own healing work.

Nothing and no one seems to be able to push or pull us in just the right way to keep us on the path of healing. It’s so much easier to just turn tail and scurry back down the mountain at the first steep or scary place.Milton Erickson, considered by many to be the “father of conversational hypnosis” used to assign people “ordeals” that they had to do before he would consent to work with them. The ancient Toltecs would “trick” their apprentices into expanding their perception by maneuvering them into “sink or swim” kinds of dilemmas that they quite literally had to solve or die.

As a coach or healer it’s tricky because I know personally I do not respond well to “tough love” “drill Sargent” kinds of coaches. I want someone to be gentle and compassionate with me but at the same time I want and NEED to be challenged in the right way for me. I don’t want my coach to just accept my own loudly voiced limitations… but I don’t want my face shoved so deeply in my own “shit” that I can’t breathe either… LOL

You might say, I’m a labrador retriever, not a pit bull.

I like my lessons to be firm but gentle… and sometimes life is just NOT GENTLE. Sometimes we don’t get to CHOOSE an EASY lesson over a TOUGH lesson… and sometimes as the Course in Miracles states, we “do not know what is in our best interests.”

It’s not always easy to figure out how a client responds best or what tactic I need to use to put exactly the right kind of pressure on them so that they keep climbing towards a new perception of their reality… without taking the easy way out and quitting just as they are getting close to the summit…

And then, once we’ve reached the summit and gotten the thrill of the view… guess what? We have to schlepp our ass down off the damn mountain. There’s no elevators up there! There’s no helicopter waiting to whisk us back down to base camp and a warm dinner…

We are all climbing mountains of various steepness at any given point in all of our lives. There is no escaping that this being alive thing is often INCREDIBLY challenging and painful. Particularly for highly sensitive people. And guess what?

The only way out is through. If it was easy it would be boring. The thing to REMEMBER is, YOU are not alone in this. We are all on this same path. We CAN help each other. But we’ve got to do our part by putting one foot in front of the other even when we don’t feel like we can keep going.

Guess what? You are more powerful than you’ve ever imagined… Just take one more little step… now take another one… now take another one… eventually they add up.

So thank you for your honest and heartfelt responses!
May you thrive on challenges and be patient and self loving of all of your attempts, failures and successes at mastering your mind for a change…

– Peace and groovyness!
Mark
p.s. here’s a song that seems to fit today’s message:
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Filed Under: 90 Day Challenge, Articles, Conversational Hypnosis, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Mental Toughness Training, Path with Heart - Massive Throbbing Vision, Self Pity, Victim thinking

Introvert Revitalization Techniques

December 22, 2016 by Mark Shepard

Hey Kids,

I’m back on the East Coast and, after a few days of applying my patented “Introvert Revitalization Techniques,” I’m almost ready to actually go out in public again as well as to celebrate the “Holler-Daze.” :o)

I’ve found over the years that when I honor my need for solitude and quiet with a few days of unstructured personal space & time, I thrive. When I attempt to PUSH through, I suffer from it. As my fellow introvert and girlfriend Ursula says, “I’m an introvert not a hermit”.

That’s why sometimes I disappear for a few days from the “daily mind mastery.” With a little self care, a littler restorative self hypnosis and grounding, then I can show up again filled with fresh energy and ideas to share with you.

If you miss my daily mind mastery post, feel free to re-read and re-view some of the previous ones. There’s a ton of content I’ve put out over the past year, over 300 videos up on my Honest Hypnosis YouTube channel and over a 100 songs are now up on my BandCamp site. As always I deeply appreciate you “liking” and “sharing” and “subscribing” cuz it’s like starting up a locomotive, it takes a little while to git that momentum going. But it’s starting to MOVE!

Today I have a short, freshly fallen snow covered video to contrast with my previous sunny palm tree videos from last weekend (and I reveal something that may be SHOCKING ;o). Check out the fresh video…

and to support it, I’ve chosen this song for your (almost) Daily Mind Mastery Musical Motif…
Song #247, “Falling Snow”

Your Mind Mastery Assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to have a great day and holiday and please know that I am thinking about you a lot… ALL the time actually… envisioning an awesome and amazing, healthy, happy, HUGELY successful completion of 2016 and an even BETTER 2017 for YOU!

Hugs!

– Mark

The 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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Filed Under: 90 Day Challenge, Conversational Hypnosis, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Introversion, Transformation

Going All In Before Your’e All Out

December 2, 2016 by Mark Shepard

crows-in-a-tree-1400Fresh Insights, Excites, and Recites…

Hey Kids, I just got off this awesome podcast/Youtube interview with “Resilience Champion”, Zaheen Nanji.

She asked me a ton of awesome questions about CRUSHING anxiety and helping people to make Rapid, Real, Relevant Changes and Improvements in their lives with NLP and Honest Hypnosis Tools…

As usual when I get to be the center of attention and talk about something that matters this much to me, I was my funny, entertaining and educating self… ;o)

We both went into trance and the 40 minutes whizzzed by like greased lightening, lightening and lightening, releasing and resourcefully responding… that’s right… mmm hmm…

LOL…. I should have a link for you by tomorrow… so you can hear for yourself… and enjoy my conversational hypnosis… about hypnosis… and NLP… and YOU changing stuff and liking having the power to change whatever you want, whenever you want to change stuff…

Today tho, For your Mind Mastery Message, I have a fresh new video I made for you where I wax eloquent about one of my most-est favorite-est topics: Going “All In” Before You Go “Out”.

And in support of my Daily Mind Mastery Message I have this Transformation Tune, aka, “song” Recorded live Nov. 19th with the Rogue Mystics…

Your “assignment” today (should you choose to accept it) is to CLICK THIS LINK and let me know what you want to work on for YOUR next 90 day challenge.

I’ve heard from a few of you SERIOUS action takers like Linda, Paula, Mike, Mike, Leslie, Lewis, Andrew & Starsky Scherherazade (not their real names).

Now about about the rest of you? Seriously. I want to know what you would improve in your life if you COULD improve it significantly, noticeably, measurably? And would you be interested in get some support or a lot of support or a medium amount of support to actually GO FOR IT and Git R Done?

Of course if you just want to keep doing what you’ve been doing because it’s working pretty well that’s fine too. The biggest lesson I’m taking away from my own work with mentors and coaches is that mentors, “guides” and coaches help to cut the time between dream and reality significantly. So I want to share some of the processes that are working really well for me and my team… with YOU. That is, if you want it. If not that’s fine and I’ll just keep doing it by myself and my team and you can keep doing what you normally due…

HOWEVER, if you are even slightly interested in improving and area or every area of your life, faster, easier better, we will be starting January 2, 2017… and running through the end of March. I’m still kicking around ideas for how to best support YOU to ROCK the first 1/4… But there WILL be an application process and more information about the program coming soon…

You’ve got nothing to lose by simply “raising your hand” and beginning to consider what you want for yourself in 2017…

Got it?

Good!

Peace out,

– Mark

p.s. definitely listen to today’s transformation tune in a decent pair of headphones before you go to bed tonight…

You WILL feel better in the morning… even if you feel fine right now… and who am I to tell you “don’t change now!” or “change now”. You should be able to change whatever you want to change, whenever you want to change it.

Now… where was I? Oh yeah Planet Earth. December 2, 2016
Did you watch the video and listen to the song? Seriously. It’s for your own good. LOL… sweet dweams.

If you are ready and would like to go deeper with me… here’s how

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Filed Under: 90 Day Challenge, Articles, Clearing Limiting Beliefs, Conversational Hypnosis, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Mentors & Coaches, Self Hypnosis, Transformation, Transformation Songs

Is Clothing Hypnosis?

August 25, 2016 by Mark Shepard

Kim pic IMG_8223Is Clothing a Form of Self Hypnosis?

I recently signed up for a coaching session with Style and Makeover Expert Kimberly Seltzer.

And in the process it caused me to “get” on a deep, visceral level, that the clothing we wear is actually a form of self hypnosis as well as “group” hypnosis.

The clothing we wear and the “look” we generate can affect our own self confidence and literally how we act and “show up” in the world. It is also a very powerful and effective form of communication to the unconscious minds of other people and guides them in the instant evaluation process that we all go through when we first meet each other.

Dress poorly in cheap clothes from Kohls (which is what I did for years), and guess what? People kind of “get” that unconsciously and they take you less seriously.  Dress well in clothes that fit your body properly and communicate what you actually want to communicate to other people, and somehow it’s just easier to get your point across, to influence and teach and in my case, to positively touch the lives of other people in a significant way.

The old saying goes, “The Clothes make the Man”. I’m not so sure about that, however, after working with Kim to choose clothing that more accurately communicates to other people (particularly my audiences) who I already am, I would definitely say that “The Clothes COMMUNICATE the Man (or the woman for that matter).

Since I am a man, and like most straight guys pretty clueless when it comes to style, I want to specifically challenge other men who are working on becoming more “masterful” in their lives, work, and relationships to definitely include this very important piece of the self improvement process.

Kimberly Seltzer
Kimberly Seltzer

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Kimberly Seltzer America’s #1 Dating Makeover and Confidence Expert
EliteImageMakeOvers.com

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I highly urge you to check out her website and do whatever it takes to get her advice and assistance.

I started small 2 years ago with a 1 hour skype session. It took me about 6 months to start clearing out my closet and figure out where to get clothing that fit me better as well as to change my glasses etc.

I wish now I had taken the more thorough and faster process of flying out to Southern California and doing a half day coaching/shopping session sooner.

Holy guacamole! What a huge difference.

I’ve made a short video below that I highly suggest you watch (in case you want to see more, there’s also a link so you can see all of the outfits Kim helped me to buy).

And then I highly suggest you take IMMEDIATE action and contact her.

She is completely easy to talk to (she was a licensed family/marriage therapist before she got into this coaching work). So you will feel at ease and comfortable with her. You will love how you look and more importantly how you FEEL after her coaching.

So check out the video and let me know what you think.

Again, I ask you to consider as you watch the video: Is clothing a form of self hypnosis? If so why not fully use it to get to where you want to go, to be who you want to be easier, faster, better.
If you would like to see more of the end result of my 4 hour “hypnosis session in bloomingdales with Kimberly Seltzer”…

I’ve posted all 12 of the videos here: http://markshepard.com/2016/08/style-transformation-kimberly-seltzer/

and again here is Kim’s website. Contact here today!

Kimberly Seltzer America’s #1 Dating Makeover and Confidence Expert
EliteImageMakeOvers.com

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Filed Under: Clothing as Hypnosis, Creating Change, Experts We Can Trust, Hypnosis For Self Confidence, Hypnosis for Self Esteem, Mentors & Coaches, Self Hypnosis, Self Improvement, Self Love, success, Transformation

Changing Beliefs with NLP Live Training

August 4, 2016 by Mark Shepard

54653357_mlChanging Limiting Beliefs With NLP

Once You decide to go on your adventure of a life time…
Once you accept the call to enter the arena of your life…
Once you acknowledge your desire to be, do and have more…

What often happens is old patterns and beliefs, negative self talk and plain lack of skill or experience threaten to shut the whole thing down… Some people try to use affirmations to force themselves to “be positive”. But if you don’t have conflicting beliefs at the unconscious level, then you don’t need to mumble a bunch of affirmations.

That’s why we need to be aware of what our limiting beliefs are and have some effective tools for clearing them and installing new, empowered, helpful, resourceful beliefs that can support us and empower us to take the next step…

Because on every journey, in every life “stuff” happens that doesn’t always seem good… It is our BELIEFS about ourselves and what happens that can totally and completely change our reality so that we can actually take the next step… and the next step… and the next… and the next…

The following program was taught live at the TRansformation Nation World Headquarters in an undisclosed location… and for a limited time, you can gain access through this secret portal… Let’s begin.

TT14.01 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP Intro

TT14.02 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP part 1

TT14.03 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP part 2

TT14.04 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP Wrap up

Got questions? Rave Reviews? Want to go Deeper? Faster? Farther?

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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Filed Under: Change, Clearing Limiting Beliefs, Conversational Hypnosis, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Empowerment Songs, Hero Story, Hypnosis For Habit Change, Self Hypnosis, Self Improvement, Transformation, Transformation Tuesdays

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