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The Shift

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463 Paying Attention 2The Shift!

Paying Attention to the small changes that lead to big changes.

Hey There Transformation Tribe!

I know I’ve been a bit scarce around these here parts lately….

The reason? I’ve been DEEP in the integration process I call “The Shift”…

Not sure if you’ve noticed but you and I are not MACHINES! When we do deep healing work sometimes we have to be patient as the “new form” begins to replace the “old form”.

Sometimes it is a sudden, clear, concise shift “like the day that Saul of Tarsus was struck down blind but joyful on the road”…

Other times, the change slips in like mist or ground fog, does it’s thing and then leaves you feeling like something has mysteriously and inexplicably shifted but you may not even notice it for a while or be able to “figure it out”.

FYI I am working on my own personal transformation just as much as you are. We are in this TOGETHER.

Back in the beginning of February I had the good fortune to experience the full “Transformational Gate” of Dr. Donnie Epstein… Needless to say it was a mind-blowing, energy enhancing, deep change inducing experience.

As a result, I’ve made a ton of new videos and written a bunch of new songs that have simply been pouring through me as a result of that “Shift”. So much has come in, so fast, I just haven’t yet edited, uploaded and shared them with you…

I’ve also been working with my comrade in communication, Michael Guerin to more precisely “hone” my message and focus… So a lot of new content is about to be EXPRESSED!

Starting TODAY, there will be a Mind Mastery Tip as well as a Transformation Tune in my “regular” blog posts and email broadcasts. (BTW if you aren’t getting the emails you can sign up for them right here).

The bottom line is that my songs in and of themselves ARE Hypnosis.
“Wide Awake Hypnosis” to be sure, but totally and completely congruent and useful as tools to REPLACE the normal toxic, negative self talk that we all engage in. And it’s that negative self talk that is the actual “hypnosis” most of the humans on this planet do everyday. And then, add to that negative self hypnosis, the barrage of main stream media messages telling you, “you’re not pretty enough, rich enough, skinny enough, strong enough, popular enough etc”, and you have billions of people hypnotized to be miserable and to seek relief by buying stuff, eating stuff, drinking stuff that isn’t necessarily good for them.

When you fill your mind instead with music containing the specific language patterns I build into my songs, it can literally support YOU in transforming YOUR life.

And THAT’S what these emails are all about. YOU. Transforming. Your LIFE.

A story to illustrate: At Donnie Epstein’s “Transformational Gate” event, a woman came up to me and excitedly told me that she had begun playing my song, “Together We Can Change The World” for her elementary school class EVERY SINGLE DAY!

The other teachers in the school noticed that her class was noticeably happier, more productive, better students in general. So THEY DEMANDED that the entire school start the day with EVERYONE singing “Together We Can Change The World”. So somewhere there’s a school full of Elementary School kids singing “Change your mind and change your life, set aside the fear and strife…”

Every day. Every Single Day.

That is a “transformation tune” in action. Just keep in mind that the change created by a song is often a “Shift”. It can be subtle. It may need repetition. So the Mind Mastery Message for today is to Pay Attention to the subtle changes as well as the big changes. When you begin to pay attention you get more of what you focus on. It is an actual “law of the universe” kind of thing.

So today’s song is one I’ve been singing a lot lately with my friend Pete Furlong. We just recorded it together with his fabulous harmonies and Joe Mennonna’s amazing arranging talents.  I’ll send you the new version as soon as Joe is done mastering it. But in the meantime, here’s the solo acoustic version from my Home Across The Sea CD

Your assignment today, should you choose to accept it is to play this song softly in the background while you drive or work or go about your day or work out, or meditate. Let it percolate into your unconscious mind. And see if you can notice the “shift”. It might be subtle. after all, sometimes you have to “pay attention” to the still small voice that whispers to you of your sweet magnificence.

So that’s it for today!

I will see YOU on the INSIDE!

peace out.

– Mark

Hypnosis Music

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Hey my Beloved Transformation Nation!

It is finally snowing here in Albany NY…

Not a lot mind you, but enough to at least get a sense that it’s actually “winter”. LOL

I usually follow my own advice on Monday’s and take some serious, chill time to recharge my “batteries” and rest up from the typically intense weekend of making music at Unity Church In Albany and other weekend gigs…

But yesterday, I just got FIRED UP! And I chose to spend the entire day… uploading songs (my full “Eyes On The Horizon” CD) to this new music streaming platform I’m using called BandCamp.

Here’s one of them, which is actually a weight loss hypnosis session in song… call it “hypnosis music” whatever… I wrote it specifically for one of my first hypnosis clients back in 2004 who came to me for help losing weight.

Here’s the direct link to all of the songs I’ve uploaded so far:
https://markshepard.bandcamp.com

(Or just click the links in the song player above.)

I just figured out how to set it up so that you can see and download EVERYTHING I’ve uploaded so far…

“But WAIT! There’s MORE!”

For a limited time I’m GIVING away EVERYTHING there for fah-ree…

YES! you heard that right!

[ Voice-over announcer: “For a limited time only”]

I’m giving all my songs away FOR FAH-REE!

https://markshepard.bandcamp.com

I know some of you are not into anything that doesn’t quite look like “Hypnosis” or “NLP”… or solve the specific personal challenge you came here to work on…

AND that’s cool, HOWEVER…

The REST of you have continually expressed interest in exploring more of my “transformational music”

UND SO,

The songs I uploaded yesterday are pretty much all specifically filled with “wide awake” self hypnosis languaging patterns and most of them were actually written back in 2003-2004 while I was first diving deep into the  powerful personal transformation tools of NLP, Hypnosis and Timeline Techniques that have evolved into what I today call,

“Honest Hypnosis”

So if you have a  moment, check it out and download EVERYTHING to your computer or phone or whatever you listen to music on, so that the next time you’re in need of an  uplifting musical moment you can just hit “PLAY”.

here’s the direct link:
https://markshepard.bandcamp.com

Cheers!

– Mark

p.s. One reason I spent my entire day off working on this was because I will be flying out to Colorado later in the week to do the music for Donnie Epstein’s 166th “Transformational Gate” where my music will serve as a support and catalyst for an entire weekend of transformational work for several hundred people. Donnie Epstein is the founder of
​Network Chiropractic and Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI)

For me, that is the perfect combination! Music and deep, significant personal transformation work…

And I’m so filled with gratitude and wonder at having this amazing opportunity to combine and integrate both  my music and my healing work that I wanted to GIVE my songs away…

That’s right. I’m going to just give ’em away for fah-ree to the participants as a way to invite them to go deeper with me…

And YOU should get the same deal if you want it…

p.p.s. Stay tuned, I’ll do my best to “report in” as the event unfolds.

here’s the direct link again so you don’t have scroll back up :0)
https://markshepard.bandcamp.com

Shyness To Boldness

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First things first!

(Then some other cool stuff for you as you scroll down)

As you may or may not know, the very reason I learned NLP and Hypnosis was because I for the life of me could not seem to get my original songs out into the world to the actual people who most appreciate it…

(Shyness, social anxiety, performance anxiety / stage fright etc. Been there. Done that. )

Thanks to my Personal Mind Mastery tools, I’ve made progress. These days, I’m deep in a huge project called, “A Life In Song” where I am recording and sharing as many of my 500 plays songs as I humanly can.

The song I just released this morning for that project triggered some thoughts about moving from Shy to Bold… So I thought I’d riff off of it and share both the music and the message with you today! Here’s the song (you can click the links in the player to read the lyrics or download or share)

It contains the line,
“I never thought that I could be so bold, I found my diamonds in the road…”

I don’t know if you struggle with this or not but most of my life I was… um…

how do I put this? (What pops in are not a “nice” words in my vocabulary)…

“Tentative”…

“Hesitant”…

“Shy”…

“Fearful”…

I was the guy at the middle school and high school dances hugging the wall… In fact I never went to
my High School prom.

I went to the UN with my church youth group for a peace conference instead… (told you I was a bit odd LOL)

But at a certain point in your life don’t you just want to bust out of the old ways you “used to be” and play with being bold? I mean, what would it be like to try it on for a little while to see how it feels?

What would it be like to totally RE-INVENT yourself to be more and more who you would love to become accustomed to being?

Looking back over 40 years of writing songs that I basically never sang to anybody, it strikes me what a supremely perfect challenge it was (and still is) for a self identified

“Massive Introvert”

to compulsively engage in an art form that DEMANDS other people! Songs are really a partnership between artist and audience.

When you think about it, if a song is never sung, recorded or transcribed into sheet music…

It basically doesn’t exist…

At least a painting “exists” outside of it’s creator… but a song unsung? Gone. Poof.

I’ve been reflecting lately on how to ​best integrate this “art form” that seems to demand that I show up and allow the “muse” to come through me…

but seems to also “force” me (in a wonderfully healing way) to keep working on opening up the channels to people who value, appreciate and understand it enough to allow the songs into the most intimate space…

Between YOUR ears.

What’s going on between your ears and my ears… matters.

A wonderful Transformation Tribe member from the UK, Jason, wrote me recently and described in a beautiful analogy that our thoughts affect our body in much the same way that food does.

My name is Jason and I’m writing to you all the way from the U.K.

I came across one of your videos a few days ago by chance, and
what you said in those couple of videos was a total epiphany
moment for me. So I would like to begin by saying thank you 🙂

…The epiphany moment from you was realising that whatever
thoughts I put into my mind my subconscious would react to,
it can’t tell the difference. Just like the body, whatever
we put into our mouths and consume the body has no choice
but to process. If we put healthy fresh, colourful things
in it will process all the goodness and nutrients, if we
put stodgy, fatty unhealthy food in it has no choice but
to process that too, so we choose what we want our bodies
to process just like our minds.

I have been asking myself 100’s of positive why questions
every day and can already see how that is so much healthier
for the subconscious.

It totally changes your perception of the event or situation,
it’s an incredible tool. It’s like the ‘whacking’ games at
arcades. I’m ready with a mallet to bat down any negative
thought that pops up, and it’s a game that is constantly
running but I always have my mallet (positive why question)
to hit it away with in a split second…

-Jason

P.S. I don’t know if you have noticed, but the journey you
are on and the progress you have personally made is blindingly
evident if you look back on this video from 2008.

You seem 10/15/20 years younger now then you did 8 years ago. The
way you dress, your energy, your whole aura is different.
Just thought I would point that out as a mark of your own progress.

Wow! Thanks Jason! Rock on brother!

(BTW I would love to hear YOUR story as well so use the contact link at the bottom and share it ok? YOU can inspire ME as well as the rest of the Trance-Formation Nation gang. )

So it makes sense to be careful about what goes into your mind (as well as your body).

Not all my songs are positive and healing… But this one just might be…

I’m not sure even what it’s really about… feel free to give me your ideas…

Looking back I can see that my dream from 1976 of sharing my music with the world from the comfort of my own home has now become a reality! Deep gratitude for the INTERNET! People all over the world are singing my “Together We Can Change The World” Song and I didn’t have to visit them personally :o) LOL

So to YOU, my action taking, intelligent, creative, loving, learning, Transformation Nation member…

…​Enjoy your opportunity to become who you want to become!

Move YOUR dream forward just a little bit today…

You don’t have to be TOTALLY BOLD about it. But you can carefully, gently, lovingly, be a little bit bolder… about taking your passions and preferences, yearnings and talents out into the wider world… one small step at a time…

COWABUNGAH!

Love,

Mark

p.s. Contact me here

p.p.s. Ready to transform you own life? You might want to check out some of my Personal Mind Mastery Programs:
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Dr. Donnie Epstein: Focus & Meaning

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hh-12-07-donnie-ss3Okay. Here we are.

We MADE IT TO MONDAY!!!

Cowabungah baby!

I LOVE Mondays don’t you?!

(you will by the end of this Thrilling, action packed, “Mind Mastery Daily” Episode)

I have a pretty big story to tell you, which I’m going to just look into the video camera and speak to you. It will flow easier that way… Then I have some thoughts after that with your Daily Mind Mastery “Transformation Take Away”

What you are about to watch is the demonstration of the long term effects of focusing on what you want…

Video:

(So hopefully you watched the whole video… If you haven’t, please go ahead and do that. I kept it as short as possible because I know you probably think you’re too busy to take the time to watch it. But it sets up everything I say below so please give it a shot.   :o)

Ok. So. Yeah, I’m starting to trust this…

this life thing. I’m putting the techniques into practice every single day and they seem to be cumulatively working.

Donnie Epstein said, there are only two things in life we can control.

  1. What we focus on.
  2. And the meaning we attach to what we focus on.

That’s it.

And that’s what I’ve been saying’ for years now perhaps in different words. And what the wizards and sorcerers and Mages and saints and Brujos, Shamans, Medicine Men, and witches (the good kind) have been saying forever.

It is a basic human truth that our culture seems to do it’s best to gloss over or ignore or outright condemn because it’s not good for business.

Most people are miserable and stressed out, so they try to soothe it with buying things that they THINK will make them happy.

But if they just owned their response-ability to make themselves happy at any given moment by focusing their mind on something that actually makes them happy, They wouldn’t need to spend money on something that they don’t need now.

That would really fvck up the economy if more than a fraction of the population actually did it.

That’s why it’s revolutionary.

What if everybody refused to eat meat that was full of antibiotics and growth hormones? Well 80% of the income pharmaceutical companies generate from ALL antibiotics is from factory farming sales… That would be bad for their business model… So they will do everything they can to preserve their income stream no matter what the cost to you or the environment.

What if everybody turned off the mainstream media and stopped the constant bombardment of holiday advertising, not to mention stopped listening to the “bad” news spinners at CNN, Fox News and even NPR?

What if you didn’t have to buy Christmas presents for all of your relatives? And what if they didn’t have to buy any for you?

What if you all agreed to just enjoy each other’s company for the holidays?

Or if you don’t enjoy each other’s company, be able to say with love. “Hey, I love  you AND this year, I’m going to give myself a trip to Cancun for the holidays…  (Just saying’).

So do whatever you want to do but let’s stop doing things that we kind of resent doing. Let’s only do things that we truthfully, congruently want to do.

Otherwise we’ve given away our power, failed to own our “stuff” and placed an unpleasant burden on the other people in our lives.

I used to do things that I didn’t really want to do all the time. I didn’t want to hurt other people’s feelings. and So guess what? I was a fake and a phony. And I was filled with frustration and resentment. Yuck.

Do you want someone to hang out with you who doesn’t really want to?

NO! It’s a drag! :o)

and by the same token, If you don’t want to hang out with me, I would prefer that you go do what YOU want to do. Make yourself happy! When you are happy, you’re a lot more fun to be around. Does that make sense?

Your take away today is to pay attention to where you’re focus is going. Are you focusing on what’s right in your life? or what’s wrong? When we focus on what’s right, it expands. When we focus on what isn’t right, THAT expands.

Are you focusing on what you don’t want? Or are you holding a steady vision of what you DO want for your life? For the people you love? For the planet?

Choose your focus carefully.

This takes conscious attention. And guess what? practicing focusing on what you appreciate and love and are grateful for and desire more of, gives energy to that.

I heard someone a long time ago say, “Feed the Faith. Starve the Doubt”.

Pop that into a Why question and you’ve got something that can actually change your bio-chemistry! “Why do I feed the faith and starve the doubt?”

or even better, how about, “Why do I feed the faith?”

Forget about the doubt. FAH-GET ABOWT IT!

The next thing you have complete power over is to interpret whatever happens as being a perfect unfoldment of events. A perfect gift. “Pronoia” (the opposite of Paranoia), this funny feeling that somehow, some way, the Universe is conspiring to support you.

So interpret everything, every event, every emotion, every physical challenge, every “problem” as something that is for your good. EVERYTHING.

Even tho it may not at first appear to be to your benefit, it IS. And it will definitely be to your benefit if you actually are willing to BELIEVE that it is to your ultimate benefit.

We have the power to choose our focus and to choose the meaning we attach to everything in our lives.

That’s it. The secret to happiness.
1. Focus on what makes you happy. Focus on the fact that you already ARE happy.
2. Interpret that to me that you actually ARE happy. Right Now.

Ok? Got it? Any questions?

Boom! I’ll see you on the inside!

– Mark

p.s. there WILL be a test, there is ALWAYS a test. How else will you know that you’ve “leveled up”?
p.p.s. Here’s a link to Dr. Donnie Epstein’s website.

p.p.p.s. I am gearing up for my best year ever in 2016. I’m working on couple of big ideas for courses and webinars and I’d love to hear what you would like help with in the next year. Got any specific challenges that you’d like help with? Head over to my contact page and drop me a line or two about what personal transformation targets you would like to FOCUS on and turn into fabulous reality.  Contact Mark Shepard

Burning The Boats

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25181353_sPlease Note: This song goes along with yesterday’s post. So if you haven’t read it yet, you might want to go there first: Moment of Truth

Is It Time? Are You Ready To Burn Your Boats?

This song may help you to get ready to get ready for your moment of truth…

There is a long, dramatic story behind this song which I won’t bore you with.

Suffice it to say it came out of a pretty intense personal conflict in a business relationship I was in that started out promising and then devolved into a massive exercise in ego… And it wasn’t just my business partner’s ego and attachment. I own my piece of the dysfunction.

But the the “moment of truth” here is that ultimately we don’t have time to waste on that crap!

We ALL have only a limited “engagement” here on the stage of life.

Military leaders have understood for thousands of years that warriors with their backs to the sea and no way to get back home other than fight to survive, WILL put absolutely EVERYTHING into the “task at hand”.

The real question is “What can YOU do today in YOUR life that you’ve been putting off because it’s too big, too crazy, too ‘this’ or ‘that?'” What escape routes do you need to close so you will do today what you’ve been putting off?

What if you just did one little thing towards your big dream today?

Sharing this song with you is my little step today. What’s yours? Of course it could be listening to this song! LOL

Go GET ’em Tiger! :o)

Please click the arrow to play:

Boats Are Burning

Song #403 | 10/25/09   |  CD: TBD

I wish that I could tell you what you wanted to hear
I wish I could tell you that there’s nothing to fear
But I don’t have time to argue any more
Because the boats are burning on the shore
You can choose to think the thoughts you’ve always thought to think
You can medicate the pain with something strong to drink
But it won’t drown out the wolves howling at your door
Because the boats are burning on the shore

Refrain:
The boats are burning There is no turning back
The boats are burning on the shore
Your life is calling, stop stalling and attack
The boats are burning on the shore

Sometimes you have to do what no one else has done
Sometimes you have to walk when you would much rather run
You can see your self as rich or see your self as poor
But the boats are burning on the shore
Our backs are to the sea and there’s no where else to flee
So we must move forward ever more fiercely
There’s no time for you to add up what you’re due
The boats are burning on the shore

Refrain:

I don’t have time to explain it all to you
Or to take classes in your school of fools
I’m playing by a brand new set of rules
Cause the boats are burning on the shore
This is not a drill It’s either kill or be killed
We’ll either stand or fall but there’s no-one left to call
So lead or follow or get the hell out of the way
Cause the boats are burning on the shore

Refrain:

Look away if you want to or stare into the flames
Focus on your anger or focus on your pain
Either way you may not live to see another day
Cause the boats are burning on the shore
I rather go down fighting knowing that I’d done my best
If I take a bullet I’d prefer it in the chest
Than hiding in a cubicle or clinging to a desk
The boats are burning on the shore

copyright 2009-2015 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used with Permission.
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Letting Go

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Hey there oh RADIANT one.

Let’s Tawk About LETTING GO (shall we?)

After my fabulous week of cranking out admittedly BRILLIANT, fresh and challenging videos, I thought it might be nice for us both to kick back a little bit with a song…

I’m not suggesting you let the song’s refrain get stuck in your head or anything…

But if it DID… What WOULD that be like? LOL…

This was one of the first songs I wrote that was inspired by my work as a healer/hypnotherapist/NLP practitioner.

People have come to me so emotionally wounded, so devastated by their childhood experiences that it literally becomes a self fulfilling prophecy…

Ultimately whatever happened in the past is gone, our memories of it and beliefs around our pasts can be healed and released. It starts with the intention of “letting go”.

And no I’m not saying that all you have to do is listen to this song a million times and anything you want to let go of will “magically” just loosen up it’s hold and sweetly drift away on the breezes like the dandy-lion seeds in the picture, BUT if you DID listen to this song a million times, it might FACILITATE it (at least a little bit).

When we release ourselves from attachment to our “horror” and “shame” stories and begin to live more and more in this sacred present moment healing can take place…

And of course it is a process we are in that sometimes seems like 2 steps forward and 1 step back, but it is happening…

Looking back at the 10 years of “lessons” since writing this song it feels like it was as much a message for me as it was for my clients…

As I often say to my current hypnosis clients and NLP students, the tools and techniques from Neuro Linguistic Programming or “Processing”, or from traditional hypnosis don’t instantly “fix” us, but they give us resources to heal ourselves faster, and more completely than if we were just using trial and error… or going through the same old behaviors and expecting a different result… (which Einstein is famous for saying is literally the definition of INSANITY).

Imagine singing yourself sane. What would THAT be like? :o)

Your Daily Mind Mastery “Take-Away” on this beautiful Saturday in November is to practice IMAGINING letting go. Let of of whatever it is that when you let it go would empower you to feel lighter, stronger, more at home in your body and in this present moment…

Let this be your soundtrack for the day.

Please click the arrow to play:

Let It Go

Song # 344   |   3/1/05   |   CD: Eyes On The Horizon

Refrain:
Let it go, let it go. Let it slip away
Let it go, let it go. Let it slip away
You will feel much lighter by the end of the day

I don’t know, I don’t know, Why you chose this road
I don’t know, I don’t know, Why you chose this road
It’s the perfect path for you to make yourself whole

Refrain:

I wish that you could see, the person that I see
I wish that you could see, the person that I see
Shining back at me so magnificently

Refrain:

Bridge:
I don’t know why you chose this experience
All I know is that on some level you did.
And if you chose it, you can change it kid.
It might be uncomfortable to admit it but you’ll be glad you did
You can blame it on your childhood
You got beat up  even when you tried to be good.
Your mom and dad, well they did the best they could
And you can’t escape the fact that their best was often not very good at all…
You got in the way and you got hurt and I’m sorry for that…

But they’re not around, they’re dead and gone or at the very least
They are no longer bigger than you.
So who’s beating you up now? Every single day?
Who’s keeping you depressed and tired and hurt and angry and overweight?

And if you chose it you can change it kid!
And if you chose it you can change it now…

Refrain:

I’ll sing this song for you. I’ll sing this song for me
I’ll sing this song for you. I’ll sing this song for me
Let’s get tangled up in the sweet melody

Refrain:

Look around, look around. See beauty everywhere
Look around, look around. See beauty everywhere
When you see your self make sure you that notice it there.

Refrain:

Copyright 2005-2015 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.

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