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When Change Takes Too Long

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When Change Takes “Too Long”…

Hey! I was just reflecting with a friend on the process of discovering the keys to consistent weight loss and the sustainable shift to a new way of eating and taking care of your body…

Part of what triggered it was that I hit another new weight loss/fitness milestone yesterday.

I weighed 207 pounds for the first time since… MY EARLY 20’S…

COWABUNGAH!

In the past whenever I wanted to slim down a bit, I would just increase the number of clients I took on for weight loss hypnosis… LOL…

Because ALL hypnosis is SELF hypnosis, the hypnotist often gets the benefit of the hypnosis sessions he or she does with clients as well.

But there came a moment about 5 years ago when the stress I was going through and the way I was eating were overpowering my “Personal Mind Mastery”…

So, like millions of other middle aged people, I signed up for a gym membership and a twice a week personal training session… I mean after all, I was eating “healthy”. So it had to be the exercise.

Right?

6 months later. Nope. same weight. Same size. Just a little stronger.

Screw that! :o)

Then one day my personal trainer guy just never showed up… The gym had no idea where he went.

So I went back to my own personal supervision…
I took response-ability for my results and started researching and shifting through all the weight loss and fitness BS to find out what actually, consistently worked for me.

One of the first things I did was get rid of all grains and white, starchy foods like potatoes.

No change weight wise but my mind got much clearer.
So I kept that change and only indulged in bread or white stuff one day a week on “cheat day”.

(BTW reduced calorie diets fail because after about 7 days or “eating less” your unconscious mind adjusts your metabolism down to burn less. You can “reset” your hormone levels back to “normal burn” by “feasting” once every 7 days.)

I increased my healthy fats.

No significant change except I stopped feeling hungry as often… and wasn’t as obsessed with my next meal…

Next I got rid of my chair and made a standing desk… starting doing “slow burn” resistance training for less than 10 minutes a day…

Made progress! Started seeing the fat go down, the weight go down, the muscle % go up

Next I got rid of fruit and any “hidden” forms of sugar except on “cheat day”

Made more progress! Who knew FRUIT was making me FAT? Isn’t it supposed to be healthy?

(to test it I added fruit back in, in moderation once per day… and guess what? I started gaining weight back. So nix the fruit except on “cheat day”/”feast day”.)

Next I got rid of BREAKFAST… actually you CAN’T get rid of breakfast EVER… because it literally means “Break Fast”… but I started started moving my breakfast back on hour or so each week until I was actually having “Brunch”…

so I was fasting pretty much 5-6 days a week from dinner to “lunch time”. It saved me a lot of time! And I basically stopped even feeling hungry until noonish.

And I made progress…

And the key thing for me, the thing that has helped me smash through the “plateaus” was one or two days a week, fasting for 24 hours. From dinner to dinner.

I recommend you check out a book by Brad Pilon called, “Eat. Stop. Eat.”

So I would have dinner around 7 pm, eat nothing else afterwards, go to bed pleasantly satisfied and then push breakfast back until dinner time the next day… Once a week to maintain, Twice a week to lose.

And I combined it with every Friday doing what I started calling a FEAST day. On that one day, I eat pretty much the way I have eaten all my life.

Breakfast first thing.
Then Lunch
Then an afternoon snack
then dinner and a snack after dinner…
as much fruit, chocolate, carbs and bread as I want…

And it is pretty obvious that eating that way every day was why I was getting fat.  I was eating way more than my body actually needed…

So after what seems like a MASSIVELY LONG TIME, Instead of frustration, I have started getting MASSIVE, STEADY, PREDICTABLE RESULTS…

And the positive feedback loop is keeping me motivated.
I am setting my sights on ACTUALLY SEEING MY ABS!

and what’s really cool is that all of this TOOK A HELL OF A LONG TIME. This process took about 5 years! However when I got super serious about it was October of 2014. I saw a picture of myself and I was shocked by the size of my belly…

Ever have one of those moments of truth? The key is to hold on to that intensity of MOTIVATION over a long period of time. Particularly when progress seems elusive.

This has been a process of experimentation and practice that has not been without frustration. But with the tools of self hypnosis I was able to keep myself in the game even when it looked like I was not getting anywhere.

The point of today’s Mind Mastery Message is this:
Sometimes the desired goal or result we long for in our lives just takes WAY LONGER than we think it SHOULD.

And that is NOT FAILURE! It is only FEEDBACK.

It’s a sign of some limiting beliefs and old programs that need to be addressed.

It’s a sign that you are simply not done yet with exploring different ways of thinking and taking action.

Ultimately physical fitness starts in your MIND. However, if it just stays in your Mind, and you don’t actually implement intelligent action that actually leads you towards the results you want, you ain’t gonna make much progress…

We HAVE to combine the Mind and the Body.
We HAVE to get support from the important people in our lives.
We HAVE to keep track of our progress in multiple ways so we can Measure our successes.

One key to success in any endeavor is to uncover and clear the “hypnosis” of false beliefs and expectations.

If you’re interested in going deeper with me in this area of your own life, you might want to check out my online weight loss program that I call, “It’s Not Just About The Food!”  (this is a $900 course that you can grab for only $99 bucks right now)

In it you will discover and implement the tools and techniques that quite literally will work for anything in any area of your life that you want to accomplish or change.

If we don’t care of our bodies, where will we live?

So your Mind Mastery Assignment today,
should you choose to accept it, is to look at your own physical level of health, fitness, strength, size, weight, whatever you most important challenge is, and see if you can notice the repeating pattern.

You might want to make a note of what worked in the past and where you habitually stopped doing what worked. Or Notice what Never worked in the past and see if you just kept doing it anyway.

And as always be GENTLE with yourself.

Today’s Transformation Tune
is one I’ve shared a few times recently. It bears repeated listens as it is quite literally a Weight Loss/Fitness hypnosis Session in the form of a song…

Song #330 “Eyes On The Horizon”

have an awesome day!

– Mark

p.s. I’m off to CT to do an African Drumming and Storytelling program for some awesome 7th Graders… Speaking of things that “Take Too Long” remind me to tell you the story sometime of how long it took me to actually get my first paying school gig after I decided to “go for it” and do assembly programs for kids…

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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Track Your Progress

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How Can You Tell You’re Making Progress?
The quick answer is…

…By Keeping Track.

For example. I weigh myself every morning when I first get up.

But body weight doesn’t always tell the whole story.

So I took the leap and invested $25 bucks in a scale that also has Body Fat, Water, Muscle and Bone percentage measurements. All of which I write down. Pretty much almost every day.

The other day I hit a new low weight wise, (which was a new high progress wise!) and all the other numbers moved in the direction I’ve been working towards as well.

My body fat went down. My muscle went up. etc.
So I wrote it down. I made a note of it. And set my intention and self hypnosis for the next small goal in this area of my life.

I can look back at October 12, 2014 which was the day I got SERIOUS about creating a life long SUSTAINABLE fitness program for my body and look at the numbers:

October 12, 2014

  • Weight: 228
  • Body Fat %: 20.4
  • Total Body Water: 62.5
  • Muscle Mass: 34
  • Bone: 8.2
  • Waist measurement: 40″

and compare it with Today’s

March 18, 2016

  • Weight: 208.6
  • Body Fat %: 17.6
  • Total Body Water: 65.1
  • Muscle Mass: 35.1
  • Bone: 7.4
  • Waist Measurement: 35″

Now also understand that this cheapo scale is not the most accurate measuring device for some of this stuff. For example, I’m probably not losing bone density. But I am staying more hydrated, and my body fat is going down and my muscle is going up. It doesn’t have to be perfect to still keep you on track.

So we don’t just weigh ourselves on the scale and use that one single metric to gauge all our progress.

Measure enough to get as accurate a picture as you can.

It feels good to make measurable progress. It reinforces what is working.

We ARE animals after all. We move TOWARDS Pleasure and AWAY from pain.

And to celebrate and reinforce my progress even more, I also bought a new pair of pants with a 34″ waist.

And… I can actually… button them!
(admittedly they are a little snug).

However,

A little over a year ago, I was wearing 38″ waist size (but with those stretchy things in them for “comfort”. so truthfully I was more like a 40″)

BTW if you would like to join me on the health and fitness quest, check out my program, “It’s Not Just About The Food”

It is simply the exact program I follow in my own life and that I developed over 15years of working with weight loss hypnosis clients… It combines leading edge research with self hypnosis sessions and NLP Mind Mastery Tools to make getting fit and healthy not only easier, faster and better but more SUSTAINABLE.

So the mind mastery tools, plus the food choices I’ve been making, the intermittent fasting I’ve been doing combined with a “feast” day once a week, getting rid of my chair and using a standing desk as well as the Slow Burn fitness techniques that take only a few minutes every other day or so, are working.

And NOW I WANT MORE! Don’t YOU?

Do you see how it works?

If you don’t keep track, how will you actually know if you’re making progress?

If you are keeping track and NOT improving then you can intelligently explore different approaches and ideas until you DO see progress.

Does that make sense?

It’s also why businesses track expenses as well as income. The mantra of many millionaires is, “You can’t improve what you can’t measure”.  And I think there is something to that.

It’s why peak performance athletes keep track of their workouts and times, personal bests in practice and in competitions etc.

So how are you doing? Have you been noticing improvements in your life?
Or do you just keep track of the failures, the disappointments and the struggles?

Remember one of the immutable laws of the universe is:

“We get more of what we focus on.”

Your Daily Mind Mastery Challenge today (should you choose to accept it) is to pick a single area of your life and begin to keep track of your progress on a daily basis.
We get more of what we focus on, so focus in on what IS working.

  • Are you better at practicing self love?
  • Are you making progress in your health and fitness?
  • Are your relationship skills and communication skills improving?
  • Are you practicing your Anxiety Crushers on a regular basis?
  • Are you cutting back on junk food and eating more veggies?
  • Are you practicing meditation daily?
  • Are you writing out WDIWOBTICPI? And making a note of how things actually turn out?

I mean, after all, What’s good in your life? Do you even know?

Make a note of it. Write it down. Keep track of your good days. Keep track of your successes.

Forget about the “failures” for now.

And if you look at things with the appreciation that even the “Failures” are part of your ultimate success, you can surely find SOMETHING to track that will give you hope and encouragement so you can take another step and another step and another step towards becoming even more fabulous than you already are…

And I am NOT suggesting that you measure EVERYTHING… Just track the stuff that’s IMPORTANT to you. And do it INTELLIGENTLY so you are fairly sure you aren’t fooling yourself like the person who wants to lose weight and starts working out and building muscle getting discouraged by their increasing weight. They don’t want to lose WEIGHT. What they really want is to Lose FAT and BUILD MUSCLE! And they very well could be succeeding but not measuring it correctly!

So give “keeping track of your successes” a shot!

Your Transformational Soundtrack to support your assignment (should you choose to accept it) is….

Song # 337 “Walk Through Roses” (It’s all about focus)

Enjoy!

Have an awesome, fabulous, groovy, love filled day!

– Mark

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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Why Exercise Is Bad

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Why “Exercise” is Bad For You

Yo! Transformation Nation!  What’s UP?
Today’s Mind Mastery Moment is AWL about YOUR awesome BODY!

When many people hear the word “exercise” it often conjures up unpleasantness:

Sweat. Discipline. Sore muscles. Aches. Pain. Inconvenience. Stinky socks.

Even embarrassment to be seen in a gym in less than perfect conditioning. 

If you’re in fabulous shape and just want to go for a run listening to today’s Wide Awake Hypnosis Session hear it is:

But haven’t we forgotten something? We want our bodies to be healthy and fit because being healthy and fit allows us to have a hell of a lot of FUN in these “bodies” of ours. I prefer to call them “Space ships”.

Think about it! Your body is actually the VEHICLE in which you move around this “earth plane”.

If you didn’t have a body to live in where would you be?

EVERYTHING we perceive about this world comes to us through the receptors of our bodies.

  • Light bounces off the receptors in our eyes and we assemble pictures on our mental movies screens.
  • Sound energy bounces off the receptors called our ears and we make sense of the sounds in our minds…
  • We send nerve energy down our arms to reach out and “touch” something with our finger and interpret the information there as an external feeling.
  • We think certain thoughts and create emotions that we fell internally,
  • and then there is taste
  • and smell…

Ultimately we are consciousness inhabiting this “animal” called our body.
But most people have no clue how to actually communicate effectively with their bodies to get the results they want.

In fact most people treat their pets way better than they treat themselves.

For example, I’m watching my friend Mike’s beautiful Labrador Retriever for a little while. And being with her every day has reminded me about the response-ability we have as “owners” of our bodies, to take exquisite care of them.

And taking exquisite care of our bodies includes, eating the highest quality food, getting plenty of rest AND… MOVING, STRETCHING, BREATHING, STRENGTHENING and yes CHALLENGING our bodies to stay strong and healthy.

That, unfortunately doesn’t happen by sitting around all day at work and then sitting on the couch watching TV in all your “spare” time.

Our bodies are designed to MOVE

Today’s Mind Mastery Moment is all about YOUR BODY.
The reason “exercise” is often a bad word is because it has been associated with negative feelings, thoughts, old traumatic associations from childhood (I don’t know about YOU but I was ALWAYS the last one picked for any sports team in gym), all the times you tried and failed to discipline yourself to work out…

and ultimately these are all ideas in your mind.

So let’s shift that today shall we?

What if instead of exercise we called it PLEASURE MOVES?

Kids don’t “exercise.” They just go outside and play (that is, if they are not so totally addicted to video games that they stay inside like zombies on even the nicest day).

What do they do to “play”? They run around! and it’s all for fun.
Pleasure Moves.

leila 2-29-16 field ballDogs don’t “exercise” they chase a tennis ball or a squirrel… for fun.
Pleasure Moves

Horses will often run flat out for the sheer pleasure  of it.
Pleasure Moves

Birds are often observed flying for the sheer love of it.

Pleasure Moves

Dolphins and whales explode the surface and splash back into the sea for FUN.

Pleasure Moves

What do YOU do? What movement feels good for YOU?

So your assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to MOVE YOUR BODY…

PLEASURABLY. 

Move it In a way that is enjoyable and pleasurable. Stretch it. Wiggle it. Bend it. Work it. Go for a walk. Climb a flight of stairs instead of taking the elevator. Park in the farthest spot and walk a little more to get into your workplace or wherever you are.

And take a few moments throughout the day to get up from your desk, stretch as tall as you can and BREATHE!  And while you’re at it… what would it be like if you did a  r… e… a… l… l… y…     s…l…o…w   squat?

The slower the better.

See if you can squat down in 10 slow “mississippi’s”…. then    s… l… o… w… l… y  come back up…

Ahhhhh! Notice how good that feels! PLEASURE MOVEMENT!

And for your listening pleasure (and wide awake hypnosis session), USE today’s Transformation Song as your sound track. It’s all about moving for the sheer LOVE of being able to.

If you want to go deeper with me around the entire health and fitness challenges in your life, check out my proven program:
“It’s Not Just About The Food!”
(It’s pretty much exactly what I follow every single day and the reason why I have just recently dropped ANOTHER pants size – 35″ vs. 40″ a year or so ago). It has powerful NLP tools and techniques, kick ass self-Hypnosis sessions and leading edge “slow burn” ways to actually get the benefit of hours and hours and hours of “exercise” in just a few minutes each day (without danger of injury or boredom).

So what did we learn today?

  1. Associating negative stuff to the word “exercise” sometimes keeps us from moving our bodies.
  2. Moving our bodies can be something we LOVE doing. Something that is deeply PLEASURABLE (and therefore NOT requiring WILLPOWER or DISCIPLINE).
  3. Our old associations with Exercise can be changed if we change how we think about it as well as the words we use to describe it to ourselves. “Why do I LOVE to MOVE my BODY in PLEASURABLE ways?”
  4. There are actually leading edge ways to get the benefit of intense “exercise” in a fraction of the time that the average gym rat thinks is necessary to show results.
  5. And sometimes the right MUSIC can make MOVEMENT MAGICAL.

HEY! I’ll race you to the top! Ready? Set? Go!

BTW, I love you. Peace and grooviness. COWABUNGAH!

– Mark

p.s. Some amazing stuff is happening these days in the recording studio. I can’t wait to play some of the new arrangements Joe Mennonna is creating…. soon. I promise. Thanks for your patience and support!!!
p.p.s. and after my recording session yesterday I went for an incredible walk with Leila the Lab… for the sheer FUN OF IT!

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

Best Exercise For Flat Abs

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29640402_mHey! Skip the damn gym with it’s banks of TV’s and weird smells.

Today I take you through one of the best exercises for your abs that you can possibly do right in the comfort of your own back yard.

Plus! You’ll get outside, get something accomplished, see your progress and have a beautifully High Intensity Interval training experience.

Here’s the video:

Here’s the theory behind HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)

Do an intense “push” for 30-45 seconds with a “rest” interval of 90 seconds or so. Maximum number of sets should be about 8 (or 20-30minutes 3 X a week).

You can do H.I.I.T. on an elliptical machine, on a bike, running sprints, walking or running up and down medium hills, jumping on a trampoline etc.

Forget long, boring cardio. This is by far one of the most effective exercise concepts (other than doing everything really, really S.L.O.W.L.Y.)

You get more results, faster, better, with a continued spike in metabolism increase that continues to burn fat long after the exercise is over…

But none of those GET SOMETHING USEFUL DONE quite like raking which just naturally creates the High Intensity Intervals for optimal training!  Plus the neighbors get to see you being all like “working in the yard” which they like.

Just saying’ :o)

Give it a thorough test today!

Cowabungah baby.

If you’d like to go deeper, receive more coaching support and discover radically sustainable weight loss and fitness ideas with a ton of powerful self hypnosis tools and techniques for weight loss and fitness, health and wellness, check out my course:

“It’s Not Just About The Food!”
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The Best Exercise of All Time

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hh-10-30-slowsquat-ss1A Happy Friday SHOUT OUT to The Transformation Nation!

Cowabungah!

I want to start by welcoming all the action taking “1 percenters” who took the plunge and stepped boldly into my new course, CRUSH anxiety NOW! yesterday to get the sweet “beta test price” and get started on their 31 day journey towards calm, confidence and personal mind mastery.

I sincerely bow to the divine within you. Way… TO …. GO!! :o)

Please remember I am here and ready to answer your questions.

Now.

Today I want to shift my focus a bit and get back to one of my other favorite topics.

Taking exquisite care of your body.

And BTW, this is also a helpful anti-anxiety tool to add to the tool kit. When you are moving your body it helps to dissipate and relieve stress, tension and those “nasty” fight or flight hormones… So let’s begin shall we?

Today we explore… The absolute best exercise of all time…

and it just so happens that

The Best Exercise Of All Time

…is the one you will ACTUALLY do… :o)

Today I have one simple exercise that will get you results, faster, “easier”, better… without risk of injury or pain.

It feels so good to do it that you will want to do it more often. And it only takes a minute.

For many of us who are busy living lives in the modern age of “crazy busy” the idea of having to put everything and everyone on hold so you can go to the gym 2 or 3 times a week, is the greatest obstacle to sustainable, life long fitness…

Personally I hate interrupting my “flow” to get in my car in order to go to a gym. I’ve done it from time to time in the past, but definitely not a fan.

I’m running three businesses and I have a very active social life… Spending hours at the gym is NOT gonna happen.

PLUS. I hate the fact that every damn gym I’ve ever been to has constant Television blaring bad news and commercials for drugs and other crap…

Not to mention the THUMP, THUMP of the shitty music bombarding you as you work out…

[oooo I feel a “rant” coming on]

Not to mention the cost… and most of the trainers are poorly trained with often old knowledge that is already outdated by the latest scientific research. I have also personally known several people who got really hurt working with some hot shot personal trainer…

To hell with all that!

And yet at age 54 (turning 55 in November) I’m more fit, more healthy, more energetic and stronger than ever before…

I practice and advocate a fitness program that is perfect for people who are making the transition from “coach potato” to warrior… or for people over 40 who have a lot of demands on their time, or even older folks who want to maintain muscle mass and the ability to move through their days pain free and able to go to the bathroom unassisted until their last day on this lovely planet… Hey. I’m the honest hypnotist remember? Going to the bathroom unassisted is one of life’s great dignities!

It’s principles are simple.

  1. Very slow movements. For very short, intense time periods. By taking away all momentum we increase the work it takes to do any exercise. In effect we make it harder. And by making it harder, we increase it’s effectiveness throughout the movement range. Because we are going slow for short periods of time, we can make any movement into a workout that can be done, any time, anywhere. Right at your desk. For a minute.
  2. Compound movements. By doing movements that work multiple muscle groups we avoid imbalances and we strengthen muscles that we actually might use during a day of living. We strengthen real muscles that combine to work your core as well as your extremities. By doing movements that call upon a full range of muscles throughout a  particular exercise, we get a more balanced, practical distribution of strength. We essentially work more muscles and that adds to the fat burning abilities of this system.
  3. Short. Intense. Slow. Graceful. Pleasurable, Meditational Movements. We increase the pleasure and the meditational, mind set that causes your unconscious mind to “want more”… we want to trigger the “ooooh that feels so good!” response deep in your unconscious mind so that you get healthfully “addicted” to moving your body intelligently. A labrador retriever NEVER needs coaxing to play “fetch”. We want to trigger that play factor in your “animal” mind/body so that it’s FUN. If it’s fun and feels good, you will want to do it more. Right? (BTW I’m not a big fan of sitting to meditate. The last thing we need to do is sit more. I prefer MOVING meditation.

Here’s a simple example of just one such movement:

A couple of other thoughts, the experts in this method who I’ve researched and modeled, say essentially that if you trained this way for a full half hour doing several different compound exercises that worked your entire body thoroughly, you wouldn’t need to do it again for a full week. This is such an intense workout that you need to allow your body to rest…

As you may know Rest and Recovery time is crucial for building muscle.

The problem with that is that once a week is not enough repetition to make it a Habit.

So I’ve modified the process of “slow burn” so that I do a little bit almost every day, throughout my day. Whenever my computer is processing something. or Whenever I’m waiting for something to be ready in the kitchen. Or even if I’m on the phone.

BOOM! I’m doing a slow squat or one of the many other movements that my body LOVES to do… slowly, consciously.

I’ve also gotten rid of my desk chair and I work standing up. I even bought a treadmill to walk on while I work. Not because treadmills are great or anything but because I want to literally increase my movement. Movement is what our bodies are designed to do. Our paleo ancestors moved pretty much all day, everyday. And we need to find a way to get back to that without sacrificing our current ways of making a living.

Sitting has been pretty definitively proven to be one of the absolute WORST things that you can do to your health.

People who sit all the time, even if they go to the gym regularly are at far greater risk of dropping dead…

Suddenly… or slowly…

Either way not optimal. :o)

So I’m not suggesting that you suddenly devote your life to peak performance physical fitness. However I am suggesting that perhaps you might consider that you can get started in some small way today…

Why would today be the perfect day to start exploring this?

Don’t take my word for it. Only you can try it yourself. Right now. Do this one single exercise today. Do it slowly. Do it consciously. Breathe. Love your body. Be present.

Now get back to your life.

Over.

peace and grooviness,

– Mark

p.s. If you’d like to go deeper with me in this area of fitness, health, weight loss, etc, check out my course called,

“It’s Not Just About The Food.”

p.p.s. Questions? Comments? Contact me!