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Are YOU Standing On Holy Ground?

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We are at Day 16 of 90 Day Transformation Challenge #4!

And Hey! Guess WHAT? It’s TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY!

Guess what else? ANOTHER brand new song came in yesterday…  #530 “Holy Ground”

BOOM! COWABUNGAH!

That’s 6 new songs in the last 3 or 4 weeks.

(I’m on “fire” ;o)

Here’s the world premiere video:

This one is another TranceFormation Tune. It’s a chant that just brings us back over and over again to the metaphor of Moses at the burning bush and the concept of “holy ground.”

Of course, the story of Moses and the burning bush is deeply, deeply archetypal.

It triggers a whole set of ancient “hero’s journey” themes that cause us to reflect on our own doubts and weaknesses, (Moses was shy and didn’t want to be a leader), our gifts and abilities, as well as the myriad of miraculous things we witness and mostly ignore every single day just going about our business.

The message for all of us is. “Hey! You and I are standing on holy ground. What if we acknowledged that all day? What if we paid attention to that still small voice?”

I contend that the still small voice is our true self; the voice that hypnosis allows us to hear and pay attention to. What if you could turn up the volume of THAT voice and turn down the loud, whiny voice that feels offended and hurt by EVERYTHING?

Here’s the Conversational Hypnosis for your Daily Mind Mastery.

Your assignment (should you choose to accept it) is to spend the rest of the day NOTICING and REFLECTING ON how amazing and miraculous EVERYTHING is. Got it? Good!

Have fun with it!

– Mark

p.s. Got questions? Got answers? Contact Me!

p.p.s. Got some “Moses” in you? Shy? Anxious? Highly sensitive? Introverted? Not feeling like you belong here on this planet with all these LOUD people? I “get” that.  If you ever want to learn some cool techniques and tools to turn YOUR pain into power and your everywhere into “holy ground” you might consider checking out my CRUSH anxiety NOW! program.

Changing Beliefs with NLP Live Training

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54653357_mlChanging Limiting Beliefs With NLP

Once You decide to go on your adventure of a life time…
Once you accept the call to enter the arena of your life…
Once you acknowledge your desire to be, do and have more…

What often happens is old patterns and beliefs, negative self talk and plain lack of skill or experience threaten to shut the whole thing down… Some people try to use affirmations to force themselves to “be positive”. But if you don’t have conflicting beliefs at the unconscious level, then you don’t need to mumble a bunch of affirmations.

That’s why we need to be aware of what our limiting beliefs are and have some effective tools for clearing them and installing new, empowered, helpful, resourceful beliefs that can support us and empower us to take the next step…

Because on every journey, in every life “stuff” happens that doesn’t always seem good… It is our BELIEFS about ourselves and what happens that can totally and completely change our reality so that we can actually take the next step… and the next step… and the next… and the next…

The following program was taught live at the TRansformation Nation World Headquarters in an undisclosed location… and for a limited time, you can gain access through this secret portal… Let’s begin.

TT14.01 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP Intro

TT14.02 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP part 1

TT14.03 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP part 2

TT14.04 Changing Limiting Beliefs with NLP Wrap up

Got questions? Rave Reviews? Want to go Deeper? Faster? Farther?

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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The Power of A Mentor

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Fire in the Eyes…

Have you ever met someone who just had intense eyes?

Someone who looked beyond the surfaces of things and saw something in you that challenged your small idea of yourself?

A lot of stories people tell of turning points in their lives, of moments that made a significant difference in their lives, involved someone older, wiser, cooler, higher “status” or whatever, who recognized something in them and encouraged that spark of greatness that we all have the potential for, to take root, to begin to grow, to blossom, to flourish …

Often it was a teacher, or a beloved Grandparent, a coach, a mentor…

I remember reading a story of a teacher in the beleaguered Chicago school system who had an almost IMPOSSIBLE student named Shaneequwa who had grown up tough in the projects… Shaneequwa basically flunked the class… caused endless disruption and trouble… but  at the end of the school year the teacher wrote a note to this kid who she recognized as SMART even though she was DIFFICULT.

The note from the teacher said,

“I know this was a tough year for you. I just want you to know that I believe in you. I know you can succeed at whatever you put your mind to. Have a great summer.”

And then in the Fall, to the teacher’s DISMAY, Shaneequwa RE-TOOK her class.

But something was different.

  • She paid attention.
  • She did her homework.
  • And she excelled.

It was that note. That simple little note that triggered a shift. No one in her life had ever told her she could ever be something. And it Made a difference.

My eyes get all watery just sharing that story.

Because that student went on to graduate from high school and college.

All because someone actually believed in her and communicated that to her.

We ALL have the potential to become more than we think we are… But sometimes we need someone else to RECOGNIZE IT IN US.

I had a cousin. He was 8 years older than me and different. I had a lot of other cousins, but Eliot always looked at me with deep, deep eyes….

Eliot was handicapped by congenital Dwarfism and had multiple physical challenges with his ears and eyes. Maybe it was because at age 16 he was the same height as I was at age 8, but he was my hero. We saw eye to eye in a lot of ways…

What I think was most important was the fact that he always took the time to listen to me, to teach me stuff, and to show me the books he was reading. He never talked down to me. He never made me feel like I was some bratty little kid. He talked to me as if I were an adult.

And needless to say I adored him.

Because he loved to read and was deeply knowledgable about Native American crafts and culture, I got hooked on knowledge. I got positively addicted to learning and he started me on a path of VORACIOUS reading and curiosity about excellence that continues to fuel my own daily reading and research into the potential we have as human beings to break through old limitations…

The bottom line: He BELIEVED in me. And he COMMUNICATED THAT TO ME. And it made a difference.

So today. I just feel so deeply moved to let YOU know from my HEART,

“I know this may have been a tough year for you so far, but I just want you to know that I believe in YOU. I know you can succeed at whatever you truly put your mind to. Have a great Holiday Weekend!”

Here’s a song to support YOUR shift towards greatness:
Song # 85, “Fire In The Eyes”

all the best!

Mark

p.s. Your Daily Mind Mastery assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to think back over YOUR life and remember at least one person who BELIEVED in YOU. Perhaps at a time when you didn’t believe in yourself. write down that memory in your journal or wherever you keep track of your personal mastery journey. Savor it. re-tell that story to someone else in your life today. And then see if there is any way of Passing That on to someone else who may need to hear it from you.

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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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Or just leave a comment below 🙂

Life Outside The Box

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19728676_m-2Imagine a box.

You’ve lived your entire life in this box.

It is beautiful.

It is comfortable.

It is safe.

You’ve got all your favorite things right there…

And then one day…

[Here’s the video version or just keep reading. It all leads to the same place…]

One day you hear a sound…

It’s coming from a long locked, unused closet door that somehow no-one knew about… or that hatchway in the ceiling… that someone painted shut…

It sounds like Someone or some thing is knocking on the door… of your box.

Whoever is knocking keeps banging and banging until the plaster of that part of your beautiful home begins to crack and fall …

What a mess! You think. And you also might be feeling a little “trepidation” or uncertainty or downright fear.

“Who is out there!?!?”

“What is out there?!?!?!?”

You retreat to the farthest corner of your “box”… and watch in horror and fascination as…

Eventually the hatch swings downward  or the door swings inward and some friendly guy who you’ve never met before pops his head into your little world and says,

“Hey! There’s a great big world out here for you to explore! I’ve come to rescue you from your limited little world, your box… your cage. Your comfort zone. Come out and be free! Come out and Play!”

If you’re like most people. You would do just about anything to shut that guy up, close that door, and reseal it like it was never there…

“Cage! How DARE he call my lovely world a ‘CAGE!’ GO AWAY!”

And if you did that, no one would blame you….

However… after a time wandering back around through your “known world”, your “box”… your “home”… you will find yourself wondering,

“hmmmm What IS out there? What if I AM missing something really good?”

Eventually, you might want to open that door yourself… curiosity can be insatiable…

And I’m not suggesting you are curious… but if you were curious, what would that be like?

And when you do…. carefully,…. gingerly peek out…

at first you might not even be able to focus in the new light… or you may not be able to conceive of what is out there, or perceive it…

And the guy who originally knocked on your door? Pounded your hatchway open a bit… is he a god? a saint? a messiah?

Nope.

He’s just a guy who went through exactly the same thing, just a little sooner than you did.

So he has set about finding all the little cages and boxes that people have shut themselves up in and he is calling you OUT.

Calling you out into a vast adventure that we call “the awakened life”.

At the end of your first day out in the wide open spaces, you might want to slip back in to your familiar comfortable “place”… and that’s fine… it’s a good place… it’s a relief…

But eventually you will want more… The brilliant sun and sweet breezes and the fullness of life in the vastness of the universe is simply too breathtakingly beautiful to ignore.

You want it. Don’t you?

Well you can have it. Come on out and play. Join us!

Essentially what I’ve described is the bare bones formula of pretty much every adventure/fantasy story or “heroic journey” ever written, filmed, or told around a fire.

The main character is going along quite nicely in his or her life, Bilbo Baggins has very little need of Wizards and Drwarves, Elves, or dragons… But something interrupts that routine, that pattern, and he is called out of his limited comfort zone into something bigger. Along the way he learns some things about himself and the world and his place in it. His knowledge and confidence grows, he begins to respond to events as they arise. As best he or she can. And it turns out, our little scaredy cat character has grown into an actual hero.

In the Russian story of Baba Yaga, a young girl is forced out of her home and on an unwilling adventure… along the way she meets a mysterious stranger on the road… she is kind to him. He gives her advice, or a magic hunting horn, or the gift of a talking crow… Whatever it is, it has magic powers for her to call upon when she most needs it…

She continues on… eventually she makes other friends whom the witch has treated badly, A dog, a gate, a comb, a fish, a certain tree… whatever. It changes depending on the version of the story…

By the time she meets the witch, she has support, help arrives from many places, many sources…

Since our unconscious minds LOVE story and metaphor. Crave it, actually, these lessons are internalized into our deepest beings…

When we commit fully to our own heroic journeys, I believe the “universe” conspires to support us.

This is such a human universal that I believe we need to pay attention to it. As a professional storyteller, I used to watch hundreds of school kids settle down into what can only be described as a trance, as I told them stories…

We are a storytelling people. But what stories have we been telling ourselves lately?

In CS Lewis’ classic, “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” Access to the “other world” is through the back of an old wardrobe… Time is different there. The “rules” are different there.

But the characters we step into as we read or watch a story unfold are as real to your unconscious mind as anything else you might imagine… remember?

Your unconscious mind is your imagination.

That’s why when you go to see a movie, your heart rate increases as the main character runs head long to a cliff and then jumps…

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hunted down by a posse, choose to leap off a cliff into a raging river rather than be caught… boom! Fourth grade. I’m watching that movie with my next door neighbor Peter Miller. All I have to do is remember and I’m there… I’m in the movie seat but I’m also in the movie and my heart catches in my mouth as we jump over the edge into that crazy river…

Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a totally topsy turvy, crazy different realm.

Harry Potter discovers that he’s not like other kids… for real.

Wherever you go in your imagination, your unconscious mind believes it’s real.

Once you know that, you can start imagining better and better worlds… and then begin to live them authentically in your life, and that’s how we make them real.

I can’t climb down into your world… It doesn’t work that way…

But you CAN come on up and out into this one…

and there are others even bigger than this!

This is the adventure of your life.

I dare you.

I double dare you.

I double dawg dare you!

Explore it with me or without me.

Today I could be playing the part of the mysterious “stranger” on the road.

Whatever, my job is to let you know it’s here… and it is yours.

– Mark

p.s. One way to stick your toe in the water before you fully climb into your greatness, is to check out CRUSH anxiety NOW!  at its, soon to be forever gone, “beta test” price… you can always get a refund… it’s ridiculously cheap… It’s worth 10 times the price.

Give it a shot. Take a test drive. You’ve got nothing to lose except your fear.

Take the puppy home and keep it overnight… see how you like it in the morning…

Peek your head out today… that’s all I’m saying…

No big commitment. If you don’t like it you can go back to being the way you were… Not everybody is ready for freedom. There is no judgement. But I HAVE to knock. It’s my job. It’s my calling. It’s my destiny.

Come on out and play!

CRUSH anxiety NOW! 

 

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Why You Will Fail to Have A Great Career

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I came across this fabulous “rant” by Larry Smith, University of Waterloo Economics Professor. Over the years he saw countless college students abandon their quest for a “great career” and settle for “safe”, “practical”, “reasonable”, “acceptable” choices that doomed them to lives of passionless drudgery.

Ultimately his TED talk is a call to “cowabungah”.

Pay attention. There will be a test…

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