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Hypnotic Sauerkraut & the 90 Day Challenge

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Hey! Happy New Year!

Today we are going to explore “Hypnotic Sauerkraut and the 90 Day Challenge”

The cool thing about the 90 day challenge is that it is holistic. We don’t just laser beam focus on one single aspect of your life and let everything else go to pot. We work in multiple areas at the same time but in ways that are interconnected.

For example, You can’t pursue your passion and dream career if you have no energy… so taking care of your body and eating foods that increase your health, vitality and energy is a crucial piece of the puzzle. You may be literally dragging around a few bowling balls worth of excess weight. And right after the New Year is traditionally when people start their next diet failures.

And I “get” that. Weight loss may be YOUR “purpose problem” but for me it was my music and the lack of physical energy I had.

One of the reasons I used to get deeply depressed and distressed at the thought of traveling around performing my music was that I could barely get through the day without at least one nap. I felt physically like I was constantly dragging several large bowling balls around with me every where I went. I couldn’t imagine that traveling and performing the way I felt would feel good. It seemed hopeless and pointless. I don’t know if you can relate to that, but our actual greatest personal wealth HAS to be our health. REMEMBER your unconscious mind is your IMAGINATION. So whatever you are imagining you can’t do is actually an extremely effective form of self hypnosis. IMAGINING WHAT YOU CAN DO is hypnosis as well.

So hand in hand with my personal healing work and journey to learn the kinds of skills and mind mastery methods that would get me farther, faster, easier, better… was taking care of my health. And that process of necessity focuses on your gut. Our digestion is perhaps the most neglected form of self improvement and personal mastery. The high sugar (and I’m including grains and starchy vegetables like potatoes here) low fat, low fiber American diet is quite literally killing us AND making us miserable.  It is also robbing our brains of the kind of fuel that cuts through the fog and allows us to think clearly.

To that end, fermented foods have made a hugely positive impact on my own health. One of the greatest tools in my own arsenal of healing foods, is Sauerkraut. NOT the pasteurized stuff you get in the regular grocery store, but the real stuff you can get at a good whole foods store or actually make at home in 10-15 minutes with just salt and a few other optional spices like tumeric, caraway seeds etc.

Yesterday, I noticed was almost out so I made some more and I video taped it while I talked.

Here’s the video:

Today I’m working on the technical details of 90 day challenge and how to deliver the goods to you. I will most likely be able to do an online meeting to answer all your questions… so look for that special announcement later today about the timing and schedule of that for either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Happy New Year!

– Mark

Your transformation Tune for the day is…

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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Hypnosis Is Deep Energy Work

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Or is Deep Energy Work Hypnosis?

Either way…

When Energy Moves Prepare to Jump Your “Grooves”

HOLY… Guacamole.

Some Deep “stuff” is going on. Have you noticed it?

Or is it only me?

I’ve lately been doing a lot of “energy work” and it is really interesting to see how things are shifting incredibly rapidly for me.

Some people point to astrological events to explain seemingly random spiritual and emotional turn-arounds and transformational events in their lives that result in MASSIVE shifts and SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

I just think the process of opening our minds to the idea that we are actually fields of energy constantly swirling and shifting, opening and constricting, filtering, learning, exploring, experiencing can cause us to “level up” in a way that defies logical explanations.

In my song Paying Attention which I shared with you last week (and which Pete Furlong and I recently NAILED in the studio and I can’t freaking wait to share it with you) refers to the conversion experience of the apostle Paul who started out as a guy named “Saul” who was going around doing his absolute best to destroy the early Christian church.

Then one day he got his “butt kicked by the Spirit” and ended up literally struck down blind on the road to Tarsus… When he came to his senses, the world was different.

But the only thing that had actually changed was him.

So whether you are of any particular religion or  spiritual tradition or totally “not into that stuff”, doesn’t seem to matter.  When energy begins to move in the form of new ideas, new ways of moving your body, new patterns of heathy eating or behavior, “stuff” begins to happen. “Stuff” begins to come up and demand our attention…

Just a little “heads up” for you my beloved transformation nation…

“STUFF”  is MOVING! (“Stuff” of course is a polite technical term for Sh*t)

Shifts Happen.

While we all SAY we want to change our lives for the better, in our daily reality, Transformation is often messy and inconvenient and typically challenges the hell out of our comfort zones (not to mention little things like how we make a living and how we deal with the people in our lives who cling desperately to wanting “stuff” to stay the same…)

So the question I have for you today is this:
Are you ready? Because ready or not, if you actually implement ANY of the daily mind mastery tips that I have been sharing with you, energy is going to MOVE.

When energy moves, prepare to jump your groove.

Your assignment for Today (Should you choose to accept it):

is to take a moment and breathe, while imagining the breathe coming in as sparkling liquid light. Breathe that liquid light up from the bottoms of your feet, up the backs of your legs, up your spine and over the top of your head… pause for a count of 5 while swirling the energy of the breathe in front of your forehead… then release down the front of your body imagining the liquid light washing you clean of anything that may have been blocking the “flow”.

Engage your imagination to vividly increase the open flow of energy through your “field”.

That’s it. Do this for a few minutes throughout the day.

You might want to start keeping track in a journal or on your phone of the things that noticeably start to shift, or not. That’s totally to you.

We aren’t necessarily attempting to change anything specific. Just focus on allowing energy to flow freely though your “system”.  Then notice and follow the “nudges”.  Let me know how you do with this ok? You can use the contact form HERE.

The question ultimately is How Deep Do You Really Want To Go?

For your Transformation Tune portion of the Daily Mind Mastery Message, here’s a song in the process of “coming through”. I think it’s a message from the Universe. :o) Please watch to the end because I have a few short concise thoughts about going deep… and the creative process that might apply to you. (or you can skip ahead in the video once you get a feel for the new song as it “comes in”.)
Song # 517 “How Deep…” Version #1: The moment of inspiration…

Song # 517 “How Deep…” Version #2: The next step, following the flow of energy and playing with a more complex form.

For me, It feels like an energetic wave that is starting to GUSH through my life. And songs are quite literally energy forms that trigger emotions and states…

The question is, are you ready? Are you on board? Are you willing?

Personally I’m too deep in this now to turn back. I want to go deeper. And that means exploring ways to consistently, sustainably nurture and nourish the energy of transformation.

More about this as we dive in… in the meantime enjoy the process of allowing a song to move through and burst out into the world… DEMANDING TO BE SUNG…

Peace and grooviness to you!

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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Hypnosis IS Transformational Communication

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Here’s is a FRESH new video I made for you about transformational communication. Please understand that this is actually a 10 minute conversational hypnosis session that is designed to communicate directly to your unconscious mind. It will work best for  you if you are willing to take 10 minutes for yourself right now, and practice whatever breath awareness you do… open your mind… relax and then notice how your day improves as a result. :o)

(Plus for no extra charge one of my best “Transformation Tunes” below it)…

Song # 104 Minstrel Fires: (Check out more of my Transformation Tunes)

Got questions? Contact Me here!

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

Focus, Meaning & Energy

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What ARE you doing differently?

Have you lost weight?

Well, whatever it is, it’s working for you.

Happy Monday!

And make sure you read this Mind Master Daily Episode all the way to the end after you watch the video because it goes somewhere kind of nicely mind altering…

I just got off the phone with Dr. Donnie Epstein who was kind enough to clarify a point that I “thought” he made. :o)

Donnie was quoting Tony Robbins who said, “The only thing we have absolute control over is our focus, and what we make things mean” (or something close). I quoted Donnie as being the one who said that but I was actually quoting Dr. Donnie quoting Tony…

LOL

What Dr. Donnie was shedding light upon was the fact that he was actually saying:

It is our level of energy that allows us to actualize a better focus and better interpretation of events.

And by opening up the spine and the rest of the neurology it allows more energy to flow which opens up a new ability to interpret the world
from a higher level of wholeness, wellness, joy, creativity etc…

At least that what I THINK Dr. Donnie said, :o)

All I know is that I feel like he’s articulating something I’ve been working on in my own life, in my own practice but haven’t fully articulated yet…

I think I said it better in the video:

Ultimately this transformational work, for those of you who are aware of it and engaged in it, is ALL about being able to handle more energy…

Think about it. Your thoughts… the shitty ones… Do they energize you or drain you?

What’s going on with the Energy of those thoughts?

And the positive ones, the hopeful ones, the joyful ones, the silly ones, the loving and grateful and kind ones?

Do they open the energy or what?

And if they “energize” you thats what makes it something we call “feeling good”… We are drawn to feeling good…It feels good to feel good.

And what is feeling good except our interpretation of energy movement. We call it “feeling good” but that’s just a name, a label we put on something that is literally us noticing a movement or flow of energy.

I think Dr. Donnie said that too…

From this point forward remember that most of this was said back in the days of Socrates and Aristotle, so none of us are original. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

The energy systems of the human body where mapped many thousands of years ago.

But it is the DISCOVERY process that every human being has the opportunity to explore.

Just knowing these ideas doesn’t change anything. It is only when we DISCOVER these truths and then begin to apply them in our lives that we get to demonstrate and prove the efficacy of applying them in actual lives and bodies…

That’s where the juice is. That’s what Drives us

You can control your Focus and the meaning you attach to the events of your life but you need the free flow of energy in order to manage to do that…

So where do you begin?

Exactly where you are.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one…

Peace out,

– Mark

p.s. Ever heard, “Energy Flows Where Attention Goes” ? …..
…..Someone said that… yup.

p.p.s. or is it “Attention goes where energy flows”?

p.p.p.s What if it’s a self perpetuating cycle…?

p.p.p.p.s. What if you could move the energy with your… mind… pay attention to how open you are… pay attention to the flow of heat and sensation in your body…. you are aware aren’t you of the fact that so much of what is going on with you is totally outside of your awareness…

Mind.

Your awareness.

is THIS.

You.

paying attention to THIS.

THIS is your focus as you read this. Going deeper into the awareness of all the good feelings you’ve ever felt. Isn’t that what we are attempting to do in every area of our lives isn’t it? To feel good.

What would it be like to feel good? That’s right.

What would it be like to feel really, really, really good… right now…?

When you are feeling really, really, really, really, really, good, is the flow of energy through your neurology open or constricted?

…… Open.

Which came first? Feeling good so the energy can flow? Or The energy flowing fine, which feels good?

If you find yourself beginning to move your body in ways that just plain and simple feel PLEASURABLE, I wouldn’t be surprised. What if the desire to feel good was hardwired into our neurology?

it is more than not being in pain. Pleasure is a positive sensation that stimulates this animal of our body in a tremendously healing way…

So if we ever are in a place in life that is challenging us we can pay attention when we notice that our energy system is being constricted by the negative thoughts and habits of movement and old attention patterns… we can consciously begin to invite the system to open back up by focusing on the breath, by moving in gentle and subtle ways, correcting our posture, moving in a grounded and present way…

What if you could imagine all that and make sense of it in the best and most positive way in your own life as you take action and apply it?

hmmmm?

p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.s. Time to wake up!

Got questions? I have answers and I want you to have them, so…

Let’s talk

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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