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The Rubber Band Effect

June 4, 2015 by Mark Shepard

or “Why Change Isn’t Always Easy”


Imagine a rubber band.

You stretch it. And while you are using your energy to keep it stretched, it stays stretched. But the moment you let go of your input of energy, it automatically returns to the way it normally is.

Because that is the nature of rubber bands we don’t usually get too upset by the fact that it pretty much does that until it breaks.

We accept that is the nature of rubber bands. Because we understand how they work, we can use them to serve our purposes.  Connecting things. Holding things. We can even use them to strengthen our muscles. We can shoot them across the room. We can collect them in a huge ball.

Because we understand them we work WITH their natural tendencies to spring back to their original size and shape.

Because our unconscious habits and patterns of behavior are deeply impressed into our neurology, using will power to force a change often results in the old pattern returning after you stop willing it.

We call that the “Rubber Band Effect”

Unfortunately people often get upset and frustrated that the changes they say they want to make don’t always “stay changed.”

But the real problem is that we do not consciously know how to “hook” the new behavior or pattern into the “matrix” of your unconscious mind so that it STAYS in the new pattern.

So today we are going to talk about the difference between “Will power” and “Intention.”

Will power comes from the conscious mind. In fact your conscious mind IS your WILL.

Intention is essentially a directive from the conscious mind that is installed into your unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind is your IMAGINATION.

Where there is a conflict between
your WILL and your IMAGINATION,
IMAGINATION always trumps WILL.

It’s kind of like Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Will power always fails because your conscious mind can not always be conscious of that one idea. You are constantly being distracted by other things and your conscious mind is only capable of being aware of what you are thinking about right now.

On the other hand, your unconscious mind can hold dozens, hundreds even thousands of processes all simultaneously... outside of your conscious awareness… kind of like my computer is running simultaneous programs in the background while I’m typing this.

For example. Right Now. You reading this, thinking about this. You might be thinking about the last time you tried to stop a negative habit or change a limiting belief. You might be wondering where I’m going with this article. You might be imagining the thing you would like to change about yourself, your bank account, your love life, your health. Whatever you are thinking about right now.

You are not thinking about your left pinky toe.

Except that now that I’ve focused your attention there, you ARE now thinking about your left pinky toe.

But the whole time leading up to me bringing “left pinky toe” into your consciousness, your unconscious mind was taking exquisite care of your entire body INCLUDING your little tiny toe.

Even though you were not consciously thinking about it, your Unconscious Mind was on the job.

So essentially, intention is the process of programming your unconscious mind to “install” the new goal, behavior, or neurological pattern into the fabric of what your unconscious mind takes care of without having to be reminded.

One way to install a new thing, is repetition and constant conscious reinforcement.

This is what most coaches, teachers, trainers and our education system uses by default. Repetition, repetition, repetition, and more repetition… It’s boring and inefficient which is why people often forget to repeat the new behavior or pattern…. and then…

Snap! They go right back to the old habits…

Sometimes something just gets powerfully installed instantly and stays “in” forever. Usually it is something negative like a phobia that gets installed. Most people with any kind of phobia think it just happened. But actually a phobia is a “One time learning event” where your unconscious mind so powerfully got the message to make a new program, that it happened instantly and unless something equally powerful and intense releases it, it will stay in your unconscious mind forever.

The key is engaging intensity of emotion… It should be no surprise that your unconscious mind is ALSO the seat of your emotions…

So in order to make a change and keep that change, you have to:

1. Know how your unconscious mind works so that you can work WITH it instead of AGAINST it.
2. Know how to set your conscious intention so that it is accepted by your unconscious mind
3. know how to fully engage the most powerful emotional intensity you can…

Once you understand these secrets, you can pretty much write your own ticket for positive change in your life.

30369940_sOnce you understand how to make changes and keep them, you can systematically stop doing the shit that stops you from being, doing and having what you want and START being, doing and having what you DO desire for your life, career, health, love life etc.

The beauty of NLP and Hypnosis as well as EFT and Time Line Therapy(tm) is that these essentially are tools that enable and empower you to do just that.

Want to learn more?

If you have any thoughts or questions or subjects you would like me to reflect upon in future videos, click the button below and contact me today.

Let’s talk…

 

Filed Under: Creating Change, Goal Setting, Healing, Keys To Cowabungah, NLP Techniques, Overcoming Obstacles

No Failure and Grain Brain

October 15, 2013 by Mark Shepard

There is No Failure, there is only feedback.

In this Video I explore the process of “getting the learning” from events that seem to be “Failures” I use as an example some challenges I’ve had recently with a few of my weight loss clients. What I can do and what I can’t do in order to help someone in whatever area of personal mastery they want to improve.

The Cowabungah key here is that this particular situation with my weight loss clients led me to dig deeper into ways to get better and faster results. This led me to read the book “Grain Brain” by David Perlmutter, MD. NO personal philosophy or self improvement program is complete without paying particular attention to our bodies and our health. IN particular the health of our brains.

Watch the video. Dump the Grains and Carbs. Get your life and brain and body BACK. COWABUNGAH!

Cowabungah!

P.S. If you have any thoughts or questions or subjects you would like me to reflect upon in future videos, click the button below and contact me today.

Let’s talk…

Want to learn more?

If you have questions for me or you’re ready to check out my course about mastering your mind for a change around food, and fitness, click the button below…

It’s Not Just About The Food

Filed Under: Healing, Keys To Cowabungah

John of God and Personal Healing

October 7, 2013 by Mark Shepard

This past weekend I had the opportunity to spend some time at a seminar or retreat with a woman who is an approved guide to the healing center of John of God in Brazil.

It was eye opening and it brought up a lot of thoughts about the healing process. It seems that so many people say they want healing but then on some level are deeply frightened and threatened by the prospect of changing.

Recently I’ve had a whole cluster of Weight Loss clients who “committed” to a full healing process with me, drop out half way through. They were doing fine and then for some reason they got scared. Too scared to actually heal the underlying pain or trauma that has caused them to over eat.

I don’t know if you will ever get that your thoughts are powerful. Your current reality is the result of the thoughts you’ve been running on a habitual basis through your mind.

Change your thoughts and you WILL change your life.

But a once per week hypnosis session can only do so much if you immediately continue to run the negative, toxic, self abusive and even downright nastiness that you have been practicing for as many years as you have been alive.

Want change? Really? Then YOU have to accept that you have a part to play in your healing. YOU are the most significant factor in your own return to health by choosing what thoughts you think.

If you want to try an experiment, take 5 minutes every single day and write this out by your own hand at least 10 times:

“Why does it work out better than I can possibly imagine?”

….and pay attention to how it changes the way you feel.

Cowabungah!

P.S. If you have any thoughts or questions or subjects you would like me to reflect upon in future videos, click the button below and contact me today.

Let’s talk…

Filed Under: Healing, Keys To Cowabungah

John of God and Personal Healing Power

October 5, 2013 by Mark Shepard

Today my video is extremely brief because I ended up going to an event about John of God.

John of God is a trance medium who lives in Brazil. Millions of people annually come through his  healing center in order to receive physical, emotional and spiritual healing. The program I attended was in Saratoga Springs NY and was led by a woman who had sought her own personal healing there and after several years of immersing herself in the healing process, has become a “guide”. She assists first time visitors as well as serves as a “surrogate”for people who need healing but can’t attend in person.

After a couple of informative talks and a documentary about John of God those in attendance participated in a “current” session where we called in the Entities of Light that work through John of God and asked for our own healing to take place.

This very short (for me) video was made before I went in to attend the program. I’ll have more to say tomorrow!

It’s a short one today!

Cowabungah!

P.S. If you have any thoughts or questions or subjects you would like me to reflect upon in future videos, click the button below and contact me today.

Let’s talk…

Filed Under: Healing, Keys To Cowabungah

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