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Hypnosis For Weight Loss & Fitness

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Hey! Just For FUN,

Let’s Bust An Old

Weight Loss Hypnosis Myth Today!

[be sure to scroll down for the fabulous video I made for you as well as a very cool weight loss hypnosis SONG]

A lot of people seem to think that if they go to a hypnotist for weight loss (fat loss really), then they won’t have to exercise or change their eating habits… the pounds will somehow, suddenly, just magically melt off…

Somehow after spending an hour with “The Wizard of Oz” they will just magically start to crave only foods that are healthy and slimming and will somehow want to go to the gym every day.

And if that mythical experience doesn’t happen, then they feel justified in blaming the hypnotherapist for their failure to reach their goals.

The reality is that hypnosis is a good way to retrain yourself to stop eating crap, and to actually get yourself to get up off of the couch and move your body but first you have to stop hypnotizing yourself to be the way you’ve always been.

The bottom line is that YOU are the actual hypnotist. The professional trained in hypnosis who you pay money to is actually coaching (or “coaxing” ) you into changing your thoughts. Changing your thoughts changes your behaviors. Changing your behaviors is what actually gets you the results you desire.

Hypnosis is a tool to communicate with your unconscious mind so that your unconscious mind actually starts giving you more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. You are the one doing the actual communicating.

On this journey we encounter a few challenges that really boil down to rejecting the Mass Hypnosis of our dominant cultural patterns.

One challenge is that your unconscious mind is really the “soft animal of your body”. And all us animals are pre-programmed to save energy. Unfortunately resting whenever possible to save energy evolved as our “default” program. And in today’s world of “labor saving devices”, and constant sitting at work, in cars, on the couch etc, we all move our bodies a lot less than in a traditional hunter/gatherer society where we evolved.

Instead of walking 5 miles to get something to eat (or 10 if necessary), we walk 5 steps to the refrigerator or the kitchen cabinet.

Another challenge is that any TV you watch, even if it’s only in the waiting room of your car dealer’s service department, is filled with hypnotic food and beverage ads. And THAT hypnosis is constantly bombarding your little unconscious mind over and over with vibrant, riveting images and stories that promise PLEASURE from food… RELIEF from stress… HAPPINESS with each lip smacking mouthful…

One of the reasons I dislike going to the gym is that they have the televisions blaring all the time… banks and banks of hypnotic media preaching exactly the opposite of what I want to feed my mind while I’m working my body.

The most important message I can convey to you is that YOU are the world’s most powerful hypnotist. Your best approach to cancelling old eating and exercise habits is to learn how to take charge of your own mind.

Careful! There ARE side effects! You might start seeing through all the dominant cultural baloney that “everybody just accepts”. :o)

I’d like to suggest if I may that it might be time for you to Stop allowing random Television strangers (ad agencies and food manufacturers) hypnotize you.

It just might be time for YOU to take charge of your change. I’m not suggesting you Master Your Mind For A Change right this instant. But you certainly might want to consider starting soon… Like today. or Tomorrow… or perhaps this coming Tuesday… You don’t have to change now unless you truly want to with all your heart!

Here’s a short video I made the other night after I worked out… for 5 minutes. Yep. You heard that right. My workouts are about 5 minutes long. The video is even shorter. You could even stretch while you watch it.
(below the video is a song that is actually a weight loss hypnosis session. Yeah really!)

I’m gearing up for my next 90 day challenge and one of the areas I’m personally working on with my body is to lower my body fat percentage. I would like to see my abs. However going form 18% body fat down to the 9% or so that would showcase my “washboard” is a bit of a leap, even for me. So the goal I’m going to set will probably be to move my body fat down to a significant 15%. That’s a bit of a stretch but it still seems “doable”.

So along with my other goals in other areas of my life, this is one I will start using self hypnosis to make into my new reality. What I’m looking for is long term, sustainable health, not some crash diet or crazy workout that might cause me to hurt myself.

If you’d like to go deeper with me in this area of your life, check out my course, “It’s Not Just About The Food!” my online fat loss course. and join us for the 90 day Transformation Tuesday Challenge

Transformation Tune: This is actually a “wide awake” hypnosis session. Play this song over and over and over… As you let it get stuck in your head remember that you are controlling your own unconscious thought patterns in a good way… enjoy.

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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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Transformation Tuesday Test Run

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Stream of Consciousness Test

Hey kids! Today is kind of special to me.

Cuz…

IT’S TUESDAY!
TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY!

Tonight at 7:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m going to do my first live streaming test of the idea that has been nudging me, and tickling me  and  NAGGING at me for something like 4 years!

Here’s Dah Link:
https://www.concertwindow.com/30992-markshepard

It’s  the culmination and combination of 40 years of songwriting, Storytelling, Healing, Personal Development, and plain, old fashioned pain and struggle transformed into empowered, creative, passionate purpose…

My purpose is clear to me: I am here on this earth to make a positive difference in the world through my words and music.
My songs have supported my “process” of healing in my immediate world, my own personal life.

And there is substance behind the songs. Energy. Passion. Intensity. There is an “Intelligence” beyond my own running through them that has served me well. And the work I’ve done outside of songwriting has “informed” them as well…

These powerful, practical tools and techniques for running your own neurology that you can put into practice IMMEDIATELY and experience real life RESULTS. That sounds a lot like HONEST HYPNOSIS doesn’t it?

For you to benefit, these songs and ideas need to be shared. They need to be heard by other ears than mine, sung by other voices than mine. These ideas put into practice in lives beyond mine.

I long for my songs to touch you, to support your healing and self discovery process. I intend to do everything within my power to assist you in transforming YOUR world.

I envision my work touching and inspiring YOU.

And Together, We Can Change The World. Starting tonight!
You and I connecting and combining our energy and vision to make the larger community a better place for all of us (and not just humans).

If you’ve been reading these emails/blog posts, You’ve been experiencing a little bit of my process of combining my skills, talents, abilities and interests here on the Honest Hypnosis Daily Mind Mastery and Transformation Tune Blog.

Tonight we turn it up a notch. I want to invite you to join us. It may not go totally smoothly. There may be some technical learning curves to work out and that’s perfect.

I invite you to participate. I invite you to watch from a safe distance. I invite you to jump right in and join me on this journey of transformation that will have a local and international reach.

Here’s the link to register and watch:

https://www.concertwindow.com/30992-markshepard.

Thanks for your support and attention.
I’ll see you at 7 pm tonight!

COWABUNGAH!

WDIWOBTYCPI?

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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p.s. if you have questions please go ahead and hit reply and I will do my best to answer them before “showtime”. :o)

p.p.s. Just in case you can’t make it tonight or need some inspiration right now, I want to share this email I got from my friend Paula who found one of my “Transformation Tunes” helpful. Ironically it was one that I wrote a year ago, recorded on video… and then kind of FORGOT!

I will probably play it tonight on the live broadcast but here it is for you just in case:
(BTW ironically SHE sent ME the link so I could listen to my own damn song! LOL)

Dear Mark, Here’s the link to the song I mentioned the other day:

And… it was song # 500!  🙂
As I had mentioned, this song helped me SO MUCH! I was in a complete downward spiral, pretty near rock bottom. And this song propelled me like a rocket, up to the 1000th floor of the good-feelings building.

— Paula

Trauma & Anxiety Are LINKED

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Today’s Mind Mastery Daily is about the connection between Trauma (one time learning events in the past) and Anxiety (imagining what you do not want to have happen in the future)

Trauma and anxiety are deeply linked neurological processes. But they are CLEAR-ABLE!

Hypnosis for PTSD must include conscious tools for clearing old beliefs, childhood vows, and limiting decisions we made about the world as children…

It’s time to stop running old beliefs that “program” you to be fearful, weak, frustrated, and small. And time to start installing bigger, better, more useful beliefs… like, “Why am I more powerful than I can possibly imagine?” [sound FX of Lion roaring!]

It’s all in the video! (Make sure you also listen to today’s Transformation Tune which is below the video)

 

Transformation Tune for Today: Song # 161 Beautiful Person (version #2)

This is the 2nd version I recorded of “Beautiful Person”.

The first one is from Visions & Voices CD and was arranged by Gene Moore. This version is a very simple “chant” that includes some significant shifts in language inspired by the field of Neuro Linguistics. Most notable is the shift into the past tense.

So, “I can not love you if I hate myself” became, “I could not love you when I hated myself”.

The past tense pre-supposes that I no longer hate myself… see how it works? Even the subtlest of language patterns can free us from our old patterns and stories or keep us stuck.

This is another one of those songs to listen to repeatedly for its potential to get “stuck” in your head… and do some good in there… :o)

BTW I actually did have a dream where there was a lion coming up out of the bathtub drain! It scared me awake from a deep slumber. As I lay there in the dark it occurred to me that the lion represented my own true power. And that it was time to stop running away from it.

May you too find your power and experience how incredibly beautiful you are. Right now. Right here.

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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Focusing On What’s Possible

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Hey! It’s Transformation Tuesday!

(again :o)

I just wanted to share a quick story of a family that has TRANSFORMED their small urban home and lawn into an URBAN FARM! Not only does their postage stamp sized yard feed THEM, they also make about $20,000 a year selling their surplus to local restaurants.

There is a mass “hypnosis” that says “you can’t do that”.

Well, THESE folks woke up out of the “consumer trance” and have embraced a different way of thinking. They call it “freedom”.

I call it “Focusing On What’s POSSIBLE”.  All innovation, all solutions to life’s challenges starts with a shift in our attitudes and beliefs about what is possible for us. And ultimately it’s HONEST HYPNOSIS.

Enjoy!

Your daily Transformation Tune on this windy Transformation Tuesday is
Song #310 Thirsty For The Sky

Your Mind Mastery Assignment today (should you choose to accept it), is to simply IMAGINE how you would FEEL if you actually did the thing(s) you most long to do… Then write that stuff down. That’s it. You can do that right?

of course you can!

Cowabungah!

WDIWOBTYCPI?

– Mark

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 🙂

Jim Carrey: Mind Mastery Mentor

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Hey there my beloved Transformation Nation!

On this rainy March Monday as I began to imagine what the Daily Mind Mastery Moment would be about, I stumbled upon this incredible nugget of transformation GOLD…

Jim Carrey’s Commencement Address at the 2014 Maharishi University Graduation

This guy is a Modern Jedi Mind Master. Holy Guacamole!

It caused me to laugh and reflect and renew my commitment to supporting YOU in your journey of transformation with the tools, techniques and talents that I bring to the world… so that YOU can bring YOURS to the world as well.

Like a lot of Processes, it started with a short “taste” of what Jim Carrey said…
if you are pressed for time, watch this first…
Short version of Jim Carrey’s Commencement Address at the 2014 Maharishi University Graduation:

Everyone Is Talking About Jim Carrey’s Speech. In Just 1 Minute, He Absolutely NAILS Life.

Posted by Tyrone Hoskins on Friday, June 20, 2014

Then if you are ready to go deeper, check out the full speech. it totally and positively transformed my day (and my day was ALREADY AWESOME)….I hope it does the same for YOU. Enjoy!
Jim Carrey’s Full Commencement Address at the 2014 Maharishi University Graduation

– Mark

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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Transformation Tuesday update

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What is Transformation Tuesday…
and…
What Does It Have To Do With YOU?

There’s a bit of a story here so I humbly ask you for your kind attention:

For the past 40 years I have been on a quest to somehow, someway, find a way to use my music to make a positive difference in the world.

EVERYTHING I’ve had to work on in this process has improved, not just my music, but my health, my relationships, my business skills, my happiness, my ability to thrive even in the face of massive change and economic challenges…. It helped me survive being homeless and destitute and change my inner experience of EVERYTHING so that EVERYTHING served me…

The “Purpose Problem” of being frustrated and tangled up in anxiety, self sabotage, negative mind reads, limiting beliefs, lack of consistency and lack of persistence around my music…

FORCED me to work on myself as if my life and livelihood depended upon it.

Which they actually did.

Along the way, I added storytelling and drumming to my performing and audiences at schools, libraries and other venues responded enthusiastically… DrumSongStory.com

but something was missing…

I then dove deep into researching and putting into practice the most leading edge personal mastery, interpersonal communication skills and mind mastery tools on the planet…

Ericksonian Hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Time Line Therapy, EFT, and Energy Work…

Check out my Honest Hypnosis Programs

And I put them into practice IMMEDIATELY in my own life and watched miracles happen. I obsessively and compulsively PRACTICED the tools and techniques and started writing songs about them as well (which I am sharing here on this site as “Transformation Tunes”.

And in the process (because it is definitely a PROCESS), I watched “disasters” in my life turn into “The best things that could ever happen”.

I started working with clients and watched more miracles happen.

I watched people clear phobias in moments that had plagued them for their entire lives. I watched people lose weight, stop smoking, increase their athletic performance, double their incomes, increase their confidence in challenging situations that used to freak them out… It was very satisfying.

But something was missing.

5 years ago I ended up doing a block of Bullying Prevention School Assembly programs in Arkansas.

And while I was there they had a snowstorm. That meant I needed to reschedule my Thursday and Friday performances for Monday and Tuesday… which meant I had all day Thursday, all day Friday, all day Saturday and ALL… DAY…. SUNDAY. to cool my heels in my cheap hotel room… or… explore.

So I explored. I went to an open mic night and because wasn’t shy anymore (thanks to my self hypnosis and NLP tools), I made some new friends. They invited me to do some cool drumming stuff and some cool crystal bowl healing stuff and they also suggested I check out the local Unity Church because they had a spiritual songwriting group over there.

Well, at the time. I DID NOT DO “CHURCH”. I didn’t care how liberal, or how progressive or how nice. I DID NOT DO CHURCH. But I was BORED OUT OF MY MIND, so I went.

And it was really, really cool. The music was fresh. The ideas were pretty much EXACTLY what I was teaching to my hypnosis clients about the power of their thoughts to create their reality and their experience of “what is”.

In fact, I liked it so much that I made a solemn promise to myself to “find one of these Unity things” when I got back home to Albany NY.

And so I did. I walked in the following Sunday to Unity Church In Albany NY and I knew I was home.

Home…

While I sat there it became clear that here was a place where I could experience community and the company of like minded people.

The people at Unity were mostly “refugees” from other religions, who were seeking something they could use and apply to their lives. A spiritual path that made sense and was actually practical and “Practice-able”.

It was a group of people like me who mostly consider themselves to be “Spiritual But Not Religious”.

Cool!
No guilt trips. No proselytizing. No having to believe in stuff literally that was clearly “metaphorical”…

It was a place where I loved to be.

I soon invited myself to join the music team (they couldn’t get rid of me!) and I started writing song after song inspired by the talks the minister Jim Fuller gave, inspired by the ideas that were moving through me.
And it felt like Home.

Here’s one of the songs written there…

In the 2nd two years there, I released 2 CD’s of my “Spiritual but not Religious” songs that were mostly songs written for my beloved Unity community. “The Fire Before The Flame” and “Home Across The Sea”.

And pretty much every single Sunday, you could find me at Unity Church playing the piano (which I hadn’t done in 20 years) and singing one of my original songs within the “New Thought” song mix that music director Roger Mock brilliantly matched to whatever the minister’s talk was about.

Roger urged me to submit my songs to the Posi Awards and as a result my song, “Together We Can Change The World” was nominated and then received a Posi Award which as been called, “the Grammy of the Positive Music Movement.”

and I was content…

Until recently. :o)

Something has shifted so deeply in me that is just DEMANDING I PAY ATTENTION.

  • I have a wealth of transformational songs to share with the world… (515 and counting) and it’s way more than can be used in the Sunday morning or evening settings at Unity…
  • AND I also have something to say. I have stories that are clamoring inside me that could help people as well…
  • AND I have a wealth of experience helping people to transform their lives.
  • AND singing one or two of my songs each Sunday barely scratches the surface of what I want to contribute.
  • I want to be of service to my fellow human beings at the same time that I intelligently and congruently integrate and use all of my god given abilities and interests to help YOU… live a richer, more joyful, more empowered life.
    You are my beloved Transformation Nation and while many of you who receive these emails each day are from my cherished local community at Unity, many of you are from all over the world…

So what keeps nudging me and pestering me is…

The idea of a day during the week when I could use my talents and abilities in a way that integrates the songs, the stories, the spirituality and the practical tools of transformation that have helped me and my clients so much over the past 15 years…

It will have a local component where folks in my hometown of Albany NY can come and join their hearts, minds and voices with mine on a regular basis on Tuesday nights… Transformation Tuesdays!…

That way I can still contribute on Sundays with the Unity Music Team AND give more that I can currently give in that setting.

AND it will also be streamed live so that those of you who are scattered all over the country (and the world) will be able to participate and share in it as well. After all, there is no time or space. Our energy can be combined and enhanced no matter where we are physically.

So Transformation Tuesday is coming…

From the depths of my heart I want to invite you to join me…

Here are some of the details as they are forming…

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 and set the intention for a fabulous next 7 days…

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

Are you in?

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

– Mark

p.s. Today’s Transformation Tune is…
Song #444 “The Fire Before The Flame”

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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