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They Didn’t Mean it! Healing Childhood Wounds

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Day 45 of the current 90 Day Transformational Challenge

Sound Healing Hypnosis Session (New Song Alert)

Song #537 “They Didn’t Mean It!” Healing Childhood Wounds (especially the self inflicted ones)


About this Song/Session:

I was in a conversation with my friend Robin who has been so kind as to help me beta test this new Sound Healing Hypnosis Format that has been unfolding during this 90 day transformation Challenge… and somehow it came up that my mother used to teasingly say to me, “You know Mark, You could be replaced by a St Bernard Dog”… She was being silly and sarcastic. She was actually expressing delight and admiration at my moxy for doing or saying or thinking something… but to me it felt like she was really thinking about trading me in for a dog… Little kids don’t understand sarcasm. They, like your unconscious mind, take EVERYTHING literally.

The big take away here for you is that at some point we all internalize these parental statements about us and our often negative interpretation of something that probably was never intended to be hurtful…. and by remembering it over and over again we literally program ourselves to behave in ways we think will solve that problem… in my case my problem of my mother replacing me with a St Bernard Dog…. It’s a really stupid thing to believe… But I was a kid and I didn’t know any better… Trust me on this you and I are a lot alike. and if I’m doing this and causing myself pain with it? Well you’re probably doing it too.

And if you STOPPED doing it… hurting yourself by believing shitty things about yourself because of what somebody said or didn’t say or did or didn’t do how many years ago? And yet we’re still fighting these old battles…

I used to think that my mother said to me, “Mark nobody wants to hear your music.” But when I really examined that memory, and put it into context what she said was said after my dad has insisted I play some songs for a couple who were having dinner over… what she really said was, “The Jones didn’t come here to spend the entire evening listening to Mark.” and it hurt my feelings because I wanted her to support me doing my music for a career and she just never would.  Blah, Blah, Blah…. we have all these fucking stories and dramas that we are carrying around all the time and constantly projecting out at other people.

So today. Just accept that you and I and everyone else on this planet spinning through space have stuff we have been telling ourselves for years that we need to stop telling ourselves and instead start just accepting and loving ourselves. Boom! When you really love yourself, you take really good care of your body. When you really love yourself you hang around people who treat you well. When you really love yourself you give yourself permission to do the stuff you most enjoy doing for work. When you really love yourself it’s easier to learn because you don’t have to get it right the first time. It’s alright to try different things and explore what really turns you on to life. Why not?

Let’s DO this thing cawled LIFE! Let’s really DO IT!

Thanks for stopping by,

– Mark

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How do you get over a broken heart?

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“Dear Mark, How DO you get over a broken heart?”  – Elizabeth J.

Wow! My email inbox is full as a Boa Constrictor after dinner, a bucket in a rainstorm, a chipmonk’s cheek, lately with questions about broken hearts, broken relationships and broken expectations in the romance department.

I know we live in times that reflect a lot less stability in our relationships than 100 years ago, or 50 or 30 years ago (or 20?). Chances are if you are human alive today, you have had your heart broken or will have your heart broken at some point. Either someone you fancy won’t fancy you back or a relationship that you are in will end and you might not have wanted it to end. So you may be nursing a recent wounded ticker or it may be old trauma that still triggers pain and suffering.

How you get over a broken heart is just not something that is a part of the typical High School or College syllabus. It’s not your fault that you don’t know how to get over a broken heart in a “heartbeat”. No one teaches us this. Until now.

Video:

In my new course , “How To get Over A Breakup” I give you everything you will ever need to totally and completely stop the pain, hurt, trauma and suffering of a broken heart, a broken relationship, rejection or whatever you are currently dealing with that is challenging you on the deepest levels…

What it’s NOT:

  • This program is NOT “therapy”. It’s a coaching course designed to give YOU the tools you need most to transform your current pain into power.
  • This program is NOT “easy”. It’s a lot EASIER than suffering. But it will require that you actually invest a little time for yourself to learn a few simple techniques that will quite literally use the same neurological pathways that you are using now to make yourself miserable, and flip them so that you can use them to feel awesome!.
  • This program is NOT watered down, vapid, woo-woo, fluff like most other self help books or online courses. The only thing that makes this different from my full 9 day NLP/Hypnosis/Timeline Certification program (which I teach in July), is that it’s the tip of the iceberg. Put THESE tools into practice and you will want to learn more.
  • This program is NOT some academic, theoretical, pie-in-the-sky, “rah-rah-rah” motivational pep talk. It’s actual tools and techniques that you can immediately try out in your own mind, and see if they work for you. If not, no big deal. But if they actually do what I know they do, if you actually apply the techniques in your own life you will get noticeable, repeatable results. And you will know pretty damn quick when you are out of pain and feeling fabulous.

For an extremely limited time I’m giving this course away for a fraction of what it’s worth. You might even be shocked at how low the price is.

Why? For several reasons:

  1. I want to help people. All my knowledge and experience doesn’t do anyone any good unless I share it, make it available, let you know about it. If I kept this to myself I would not be able to look at myself in the mirror. (And part of this program is about self love and self worth and mine is too high to be stingy)
  2. I want to make sure this program is simple enough for anyone to use and sophisticated enough for anyone who usesdsc03008-crop it to get the same positive results that I got and that 1000’s of my clients have gotten.
  3. I’m sharing this for so little because I need you to get into the course and give it a thorough test make sure all the links work etc.
  4. I want you to share your questions, your specific challenges, your stories of triumph and success so that I can make a solid case for even more people like YOU to get access to these powerful mind mastery tools.
  5. And finally I simply want to be sure that it is up to my usual extremely high standards before we roll this out in a much larger way.

So instead of paying my usual $500 plus an hour fees to work with me one on one, or $399 for a college level credit, you get the benefit of my 20 years of experience as a Certified Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP , Hypnosis and Time Line Techniques. Plus my 40 years of getting clobbered “over the heart” by love over and over and over again… until I finally discovered these tools for transformation…

But in order to get the super duper, uber premium, “el cheapo” price you have to take some action NOW! This offer expires soon. And then the price goes UP! So take advantage of me NOW! :o)

Thanks for taking action. Your satisfaction is totally and completely guaranteed or your moolah back.

– Mark

p.s. Seriously it’s worth checking out just to see how shockingly low the price is. :o)

If you are ready and would like to go deeper with me… here’s how

How to Get Over A Break Up

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Trauma & Anxiety Are LINKED

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Today’s Mind Mastery Daily is about the connection between Trauma (one time learning events in the past) and Anxiety (imagining what you do not want to have happen in the future)

Trauma and anxiety are deeply linked neurological processes. But they are CLEAR-ABLE!

Hypnosis for PTSD must include conscious tools for clearing old beliefs, childhood vows, and limiting decisions we made about the world as children…

It’s time to stop running old beliefs that “program” you to be fearful, weak, frustrated, and small. And time to start installing bigger, better, more useful beliefs… like, “Why am I more powerful than I can possibly imagine?” [sound FX of Lion roaring!]

It’s all in the video! (Make sure you also listen to today’s Transformation Tune which is below the video)

 

Transformation Tune for Today: Song # 161 Beautiful Person (version #2)

This is the 2nd version I recorded of “Beautiful Person”.

The first one is from Visions & Voices CD and was arranged by Gene Moore. This version is a very simple “chant” that includes some significant shifts in language inspired by the field of Neuro Linguistics. Most notable is the shift into the past tense.

So, “I can not love you if I hate myself” became, “I could not love you when I hated myself”.

The past tense pre-supposes that I no longer hate myself… see how it works? Even the subtlest of language patterns can free us from our old patterns and stories or keep us stuck.

This is another one of those songs to listen to repeatedly for its potential to get “stuck” in your head… and do some good in there… :o)

BTW I actually did have a dream where there was a lion coming up out of the bathtub drain! It scared me awake from a deep slumber. As I lay there in the dark it occurred to me that the lion represented my own true power. And that it was time to stop running away from it.

May you too find your power and experience how incredibly beautiful you are. Right now. Right here.

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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Monday Morning Moments

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Monday Morning Moments

Hey!

Are you having that “Monday Morning Moment”?

Struggling to get motivated to do the job that seemed so promising when you interviewed for it but that has turned out to be a MASSIVE test of your ability to ENDURE being miserable?

No? Cool..

Just checking…

Glad you can hardly wait for Mondays to gear up for your AMAZING week doing what you most love to do and making a MASSIVE positive difference in the world!

Way to go Tiger!

Here’s a song in your honor…

Song # 312 “Freedom”

But just in case you’re not totally ecstatic about your Monday Morning, and are open to a suggestion or two…

I’d like to ask you a few “What if?” questions…

  • “What if, whatever you are struggling with at the moment is somehow necessary?”
  • “What if, the challenges and frustrations that are coming up in your life are mission critical moments that are flawlessly, impeccably nudging you towards finally accepting your OWN greatness?”
  • What if, you are being Called Out by your highest good to discover and follow your “Path With Heart”?
    So today, your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to pay attention to the possibility that you are perfectly on your path with heart and your mission is to either embrace exactly where you are and go DEEP with it in a transformational way or embrace exactly where you are and take action to transform where you are at this moment into something that serves you and suits you better…

You don’t have to do anything about it right now. Just pay attention and notice what comes up for you…

then play this song a few times and let it start to sink in…

Song # 312 “Freedom”

I’ll be here waiting for your emails. I want to know what’s going on with you so I can create programs that support your complete and total TRANSFORMATION.

Have a great day!

Love,

Mark

p.s. This week I’m adding another module to the Hypnosis For PTSD Course. So those of you who have taken immediate action to jump in to it will get even more value. If you haven’t checked it out yet, here’s the link:  Hypnosis For PTSD

This program is NOT yet available to the general public and I’m only allowing a small number of folks in at a ridiculously low pre-release price so if PTSD or old Traumatic stuff from your childhood is a challenge for you, check it out. It comes with a total satisfaction, money back guarantee.

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 For PTSD

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Got Trauma?

(We all do)
I’ve been working with an awesome client, named Shawna over the last year or so.

A few things up front:

  1. She gave me full permission to share her story and these sessions with you.
  2. She and I have done a lot of foundational clearing work over the course of 10 sessions.
  3. She recently had a huge breakthrough when I simply “blasted” her with energy and it seemed to clear out a lot of lingering “stuff” (“stuff” is our polite word LOL :o)

Because she and I both want to help more people, she agreed to allow me to record her sessions.

We did my usual 4 hour initial breakthrough intensive and about 6 follow up visits. Over the course of that time she experienced a ton of “stuff” that came up around her wedding (she got married in the Spring) having to do with her new husband’s ex, with her abusive, estranged father, with all kinds of family “stuff”.

“STUFF” is our polite technical term for old traumatic memories, behavior patterns that we created in childhood to survive and be accepted by our families.

These are the wounds we are yearning to heal. These are the wounds that get “triggered” when we often least expect it.

We all have it.

Most of us will do absolutely EVERYTHING and ANYTHING to avoid it being “TRIGGERED”. Cuz BEING “TRIGGERED” usually feels really, really bad.

But it is pretty much a given, that in significant relationships we somehow, mysteriously, magically find a partner with just the right “chemistry” to touch our deep woundedness in just the right way to cause this “stuff” to come up.

What most of us do, is switch partners hoping the new one won’t make us feel so bad. But then the old stuff comes up again… and again… and again….

BLECH!

But ultimately WE are the ones making ourselves feel bad and these “trigger moments” are actually the most MASSIVE opportunities we have for clearing this “stuff” out.

There’s an old therapeutic cliche that is a cliche because its damn TRUE:
“We cannot heal what we cannot feel.”

But most of us don’t know what to actually do to heal the stuff that we are suddenly feeling.

Last Friday, Shawna gave me permission to record our hypnosis/energy session, and if you’ve ever experienced old patterns or thought forms that just kind of cling to you and poison your relationships and your general well being, you might want to check it out and give it a test in your life.

It was useful to me as well to document the kind of work I do with clients one on one because it is a process that combines traditional hypnosis with conversational hypnosis, NLP, Time line Techniques and energy work. I haven’t talked much about energy healing because, even though that was my original training for 5 years under one of Barbara Brennon’s early students, I mostly avoided it because it seemed to be a little too “woo, woo” for some of my early clients who were a bit unused to “healing” as a concept.

But after working with Dr. Donnie Epstein last month, who is all about energy healing, I just started bringing it into the mix.

Today’s Transformation Tune, Song # 344 “Let It Go”, supports this trauma release process as well, and is an integral part of the new course too. It was inspired by many of my first clients back in 2004.

Because ultimately the people who show up in a hypnosis practice for weight loss and smoking cessation, anxiety relief or whatever, are pretty much all dealing with unhealed “stuff” in their lives and are using “substances”, food, tobacco etc. to self soothe.

When we actually address and clear the underlying trauma, all of a sudden the need to “check out” dissipates. Sometimes it happens suddenly, other times it’s a gradual process. But either way it’s better than just suffering and staying stuck in the muck.

thanks!

– Mark

p..s. As I write this post on Thursday March 10th, the course is not quite ready for release to the general public.

p.p.s. I will see YOU on the INSIDE!

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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Real Quick

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hh-10-08-promise-ss2cropReal. Quick.

Real quick.

or REEL Quick!

[The following is a blog post by America’s Honest Hypnotist, Mark Shepard. It is a devilishly well intentioned hypnotic experience that is designed to leave you feeling extremely impressed with him as a human being…]

It’s Saturday afternoon and I haven’t forgotten you.

I REMEMBER you.

I got started on a new mod for CRUSH anxiety FOREVER this morning and I got so deep into it that I just flaked on my
Daily Mind Mastery Responsibilities…

So I need to jump back in to setting up the next step to totally CRUSH anxiety FOREVER…

This one technique I’m teaching today in this module simply kicks ASS!.

Old traumatic memory? POOF!

NEUTRALIZED…

Damn! I LOVE this work.

Special thanks to Linda for asking me better and better more intelligent questions every single day.

And yeah. You are intelligent. We all are over here. Only SMART people get anxiety.

Seriously.

Some of us are so smart that we create, almost impossible to escape, “traps” of thinking that we get stuck in…

Double Binds…

…suck

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t…

No. Way. Out.

(it appears)

But it’s an illusion.

You’re free.

“You’re free little bunny! You’re FREE!”

to change your mind about your problem.
To change your mind about what’s possible
To change your mind about the fact that
you can change everything with your mind.

So, let’s chill out a bit today and kick back with this song:

What If We Could Be Real?

(The Velveteen Rabbit Song)

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If I were a velveteen rabbit
worn away with love from a child
would I be grateful?…
if I were a rock in a river
tumbling until I was smooth
would I be grateful?…

If I were a word on the air
spoken only to disappear
would I be grateful?
And if there was every reason to cry
And it caused my heart to open up wide
would I be grateful?

Refrain:
What if we could be real?
What if we could love ourselves exactly as we are
and allow the love of others past the bars of our hearts
What if love made us real?
Brave enough to feel
So we could finally allow ourselves to heal?
Truly Grateful for this moment
Grateful for this moment
Grateful for this moment of our lives

If you were a velveteen rabbit
worn away with love from a child
would you be grateful?…
if you were a rock in a river
tumbling until you were smooth
would you be grateful?…

If I were a dandelion seed
And everybody called me a “weed”
Would I be grateful?
If I was a hole in the road
That everybody cursed as they drove
Would I be grateful?

If I dared to go for my “dream”
And my world fell apart at the seams
Would I be grateful?
If I was a breath of fresh air
And you breathed me in but didn’t much care
Would I be grateful?

Refrain:

Bridge:
What if we weren’t so focused on lack and pain?
What if when we fell down we just got up again?
What if love was like sand on a beach
plenty within everyone’s reach
Nothing to steal, nothing to hide, nothing to fear?

Copyright 2012 by Mark Shepard

 

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Damn! I’m GOOOOOOD! :o)

 

  • Mark

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