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You’ve Been LIED To – How to Unleash Hidden Powers | Wim Hof

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It rained last night so I didn’t get to go out on the Hudson River for my daily “office hours.” I stumbled on this short Word Porn video of Wim Hoff.

In case you haven’t heard of Wim Hoff, who is known for his ability to master his mind and body in extreme conditions of cold, this is a good, short introduction to the man and his ideas.

I completely agree with him that we have in our minds and bodies the ability to heal ourselves. and the job of hypnotizing ourselves should be our own. Most people have been hypnotized by the main stream media which is owned by the same people who own our governments.

(watch the George Carlin “WordPorn” afterwards….)

The point is healing does not come from a pill. Healing comes from reducing imflammation so the body can heal itself. What causes inflammation? The modern processed food diet. Sugar, Transfats, grains, factory farmed meats, animals raised in their own filth, pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones…

THAT is why I grow my own vegetables and have switched to grass fed beef…
THAT is why i continued to feel better and better while others my own age are getting fatter and sicker.

Taking charge of my own mind was the ONLY option I had because I didn’t have the means to get meds for my severe depression and anxiety. It took me years but steadily my health and happiness improved as I took more and more responsibility for my own thoughts, and experiences.

So I learned energy healing, Neuro Linguistics and Hypnosis because I was miserable and was willing to try anything. But the real discovery was that I was hypnotizing myself and “programming” myself for failure and misery from a very young age.

When I changed my thinking my life changed as well. What you think and what you say to yourself, what you focus on, how you interpret what happens to you on a daily basis, THOSE actions ARE HYPNOSIS.

When are YOU going to wake up to the fact, that YOU are the hypnotist? YOU are your own best healer or worst enemy. Start paying attention not only to what you put in your body, but what you put in your mind. What you allow to be in your MIND… is your hypnosis practice.

Why DOES it work out better than you can possibly IMAGINE?

Thank you,

Mark Shepard

The Best Hypnosis Session In The History Of The World

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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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The Personal Healing Process Is About Connections

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This Needs To Be Said…

Of course I have know idea what It is that I’m about to say, but I kind of feel it working it’s way UP to the surface of my conscious awareness… LOL

…and hopefully there will be some significant value for you in what I’m about to write…

112616-mark14Last night was a SERIOUS “mind blowing” trip in the best sense of the word.

About 6 months ago I was invited by my old friend Mitch Katz to be a part of his growing “New Morning Songwriters Series” in Woodbury CT.  I KNEW it was gonna be AWESOME because another old friend, Sloan Wainwright was on the bill.

So I was excited to make music with her again. The last time we played together was at the 2014 Posi Awards.

So I was looking forward to that, and I KNEW that the other two songwriters on the bill, Anne Marie Menta and Eric Paradine would be a blast to get to know as well…

What I hadn’t envisioned was how many other old friends from my days living in CT and Westchester County NY would show up as well.

That literally blew my circuits…
Fried my transformation transducers…
Flipped my switches…
Sparked my transponders…
Triggered my neuro transmitters to hum, sparkle and shine like a jar full of fireflies…

Suzanne was there with a friend of hers, Sarah who was the neighbor of another friend of mine… who has since passed away (I found out sadly last night). Suzanne and Sarah are literally friends today some 20 years later because of the links and connections that I had something to do with… (Hopefully that makes sense).

Rosemary, one of my NLP students from my days in New Haven CT was there because she is friends of Anne Marie Menta, one of the other songwriters on the bill who I’d never met before…

Brian was there from my days in the Hudson Valley Musicians Alliance…

What needs to be said apparently is that we are all connected. We are all connected in ways that literally boggle the imagination.

It was indescribably DELICIOUS!

And I am also sparked up to welcome a bunch of new folks to the Transformation Nation email list. 
And BTW if you are one of them thar folks, WELCOME!!! This is the thing I do almost every day. I stare at a blank page until something starts moving through… sometimes I make a fresh video, sometimes I write but it’s always about sharing some brief, transformational thoughts and a transformation tune.
(And BTW if you ever don’t want to be on the list, I seriously will not take it personally if you use the “unsubscribe” link at the very bottom of EVERY email. OK?  You can also just read these whenever you need a little lift. My goal is to be here for you whenever. But there is no midterm exam or test ok? Whatever you can take in. Go ahead and take it in. Whatever you can’t, just filter out.)

Speaking of “sharing” I just plastered a bunch of pics up on my MarkShepardSongs Facebook page ( would you be willing to take a moment and help spread this love by clicking this link and “liking” it? I think I have only 247 of those cute little likes and it’s high time I started asking for them LOL.  ;o)
https://www.facebook.com/MarkShepardSongs/

Thanks for doing that whenever you get a chance!

Now, where was I?

Oh yes. The connections of real people connecting with other real people is a wonderful web that we constantly weave throughout our lives. And you never really know how YOU have influenced other people. And most of the time other people are totally clueless about how THEY have influenced you.

For example, Suzanne who I mentioned above was the first one to figure out that the reason I was so sick and lethargic and exhausted all the time back in the 1990’s with significant digestive issues was that I was eating wheat and other “white, starchy, high glycemic foods”.

She got me off of the high carb, “healthy whole grain diet” that we’ve been hypnotized into thinking is “healthy”. Without her influence in my life I might not be alive today. Because I was not only sick but being sick made me feel too hopeless and helpless to get my music out into the world… and pursuing your dream takes energy and vitality…

My other old friend, Rosemary turned me on to a business coach Fabienne Fredrickson who specialized in helping Holistic Practitioners like me to actually earn a living helping other people…

In so many ways, small and large, we touch each other’s lives and influence each other.

The challenge is to pay attention to the people who influence us in a positive way and increase our “exposure” to those people and decrease our environmental exposure to the toxic, negative influences. And I include the mainstream media in that group. Years ago I stopped watching TV and in particular the NEWS.

It’s hypnosis people. And we are all “suggestible”. Personal mastery is a lot about “Mental Hygiene”.

Your Mind Mastery Mission Today (should you choose to accept it) is to set your “filters” a little bit more precisely around what you allow into your field of awareness and what you filter OUT.

There are no hard and fast rules other than this:
If what you are exposing yourself to socially and environmentally helps you to feel good in a sustainable way. Keep that.

If it doesn’t feel good, begin to weed your garden. You can do it gradually or all at once. However you do it is fine. Maybe your first step is to just be aware of what the media is attempting to get you to do….

For example, the first thing I did YEARS ago was stop watching the news. The news is designed to increase anxiety. Fear is the great motivator… A report on crime increases sales of certain commodities, drugs, services, products etc. A report on love, health and well being increases sales of what? Not much.

Got it? Cool!

And today to support this message and mission that flowed out of my fingers is…

a medley of 3 songs we recorded live last week at the Last Concert of Mark Shepard and The Rogue Mystics, click this link to hear it… :o)

I sang the middle song of the medley last night at the New Morning Songwriter’s Series, it’s Song #127, “Waiting For A Sign”. The other two are new songs and more along the lines of “chant”.

Enjoy!

Peace, Love, And GROOVYNESS! for the rest of your Sunday!

– Mark

p.s. for all you newbies here to the “almost daily Mind Mastery Message” The link to the song leads to a vast reservoir of songs you can download for fah-ree (or pay what you want). When you click the “download link” just put in 0.00 for the price or whatever you choose to pay to support this OCD  songwriting thing I do… :o)

p.p.s. If you aren’t yet on the Transformation Nation email list, just use the handy form that we’ve plastered all over this website and you will get the very next issue that I issue… :o)

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The Great Sugar Conspiracy

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48863412_mlOne of the challenges I have as a hypnotherapist who has worked in the hypnosis for weight loss field for over 15 years is the HUGE impact of CULTURAL HYPNOSIS on our basic eating patterns.

By cultural hypnosis I mean the prevailing bad science that vilifies fat and cholesterol yet celebrates “heart healthy whole grains” and “Fruit Juices”.

It doesn’t take much effort to discover that eating whole grains and more “fruit” is not a healthy choice if you want to lose fat.

In fact wheat is higher on the glycemic index than bananas. In other words grains are sugar. Potatoes are sugar. Fruit is sugar.

Recent research points its finger DIRECTLY at sugar in all its forms as the cause of the current obesity epidemic.

It turns out a “calorie is not just a calorie”.

The low fat diet ends up being a high carb diet simply by default.

So the first job is to counter the mass hypnosis of the food industry which is one of the largest advertisers on all media  – (along with the pharmaceutical companies)

and trust me on this one, advertising IS hypnosis. And anyone who has any exposure to the media and all the various forms of advertising are being hypnotized. And very few people are even aware of how their beliefs and behaviors are guided unconsciously because of the influence of advertising.

The question is whether YOU are going to take charge of your own mind and what you believe and what actions you will take to change your life.

And something HAS to change doesn’t it? Because if you keep doing what you’ve been doing you are going to keep getting what you’ve been getting.

So my main job as a hypnotherapist is not just to educate my weight loss clients and it’s not to “hypnotize” them to suddenly crave only “healthy” food. It’s to teach them how to take charge of their own hypnosis so that they stop BELIEVING the media baloney about what is actually “healthy”.

  • The Paleo diet has been labeled “the most recent diet fad” by the media and yet it is exactly the diet that we evolved to eat over MILLIONS of years. The large scale introduction of grains into our diet only happened a mere 10,000 years ago.
  • The increase in simple carbs into our diets only happened 300 years ago and the “low fat diet” was only introduced 30 years ago.
  • With the addition of corn to the human diet we suddenly see evidence of tooth decay in human remains.
  • With the influx of a ton of sugar we began to see heart disease and dementia ever increasing…

hmmm… who is hypnotizing whom here?

If you don’t want to take my word for it. Do a little reading.

check out this article:

The Sugar Conspiracy

Then check out

Grain Brain by David Perlmutter

And then if you would like my support and help in hypnotizing yourself to get off the diet rollercoaster and on a practical, sustainable healthy lifestyle that includes mastering your mind for a change, check out my course:

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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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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