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Radical Father’s Day

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I was gonna release these over the course of several days, but then I just have too much other material that would have to wait in line so I’m just gonna jam all these cool videos together on this one page. I just want to say a few things before you jump in.

  1. My dad was in a pretty serious auto accident about a month ago. 2 cracked ribs and a cracked pelvis as well as a bit of a head trauma from a car slamming into his driver’s side door. They had to use the Jaws of Life to get him out of his car. So he’s doing really, really well. And it was a wake up call to me that the idea of making videos with my dad needs to happen NOW.
  2. In true observance of Radical Father’s Day, neither one of us combed our hair, shaved or took showers. We were just two dudes enjoying being dudes and talking about the stuff that we ALWAYS talk about off camera in real life.  I wanted to capture that as simply and easily as possible without a bunch of formal stuff that might inhibit the old man.
  3. My dad has done about 50 years of research into the leading edge of health, wellness and nutrition which pairs up nicely with my 30 years of  Modern Jedi Mind Mastery NLP, Hypnosis, EFT, Energy Healing stuff. I have affectionately “certified” him as an “Independent Alternative Health Field Expert.” Lewis M. Shepard, I.A.H.F.E. :o)
  4. You will be hearing from my dad more in the near future.

Here are the Radical Father’s day videos. Please like, share and subscribe to my Youtube channel!

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Got questions for me or my dad??? Contact me!
Have money you want to share to support my work? YOU rock! My paypal email is Mark@MarkShepard.com ;o)
Want to git yerself over anxiety or other personal challenges? Check out my online hypnosis courses
Want to book me for your next conference, retreat, concert series, or special event? Contact me!
Want to download my songs for your personal Sound Healing self hypnosis practice? MarkShepard.Bandcamp.com

COWABUNGAH!

Have yourself a fabulous day! and I will see YOU… on the INSIDE!

– Mark

About Your Body…

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Um… About Your Body…

I saw a bumper sticker / coffee mug / refrigerator magnet / poster or “whatever” once that said…

“If you don’t take care of your body,
where will you LIVE?”

While I can’t remember the form of the message I do remember the message. And it stuck with me.

So my personal Mind/Body Mastery question is often “Why do I take exquisite care of my body?”

And sometimes that means I have to say “no” to someone who wants my time or attention. Because I need to rest. Or I need some down time to recharge my “batteries”.

Sometimes it means moving my body even when I’d rather take a nap. Or sometimes it means I take a nap and exercise later.

But most importantly it means steadily and continuously moving the line of what I don’t put in my mouth and increasing the quality and healthfulness of the food I do put in my mouth.

Just saying.

Today. Your assignment. Should you CHOOSE to accept it. Is to spend the day playing with the idea that you ARE a Spirit animating this beautiful and sexy body of yours. It’s YOUR spaceship. You LIVE IN THERE!

What small, step can you take today to treat your body better? Not saying you’re going to make a HUGE change right now, today. But take one small step towards self loving, self care. STart with the “soft animal of your body” as poet Mary Oliver says.

Today’s Transformation Tune features a killer electric guitar solo by Gene Moore with another fabulous arrangement by Joe Mennonna (it’s from my “Thirsty For The Sky” CD). Download it free (you can always pay if you want :o)

Peace out!

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

Click the link below to:

Or just leave a comment below 🙂

p.s. I will see YOU on the inside! Cowabungah!

p.p.s. If you are interested in going deeper with me on the subject of taking exquisite care of your body, check out my online fat loss course: “It’s Not Just About The Food!”

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

Click the link below to:

Or just leave a comment below 🙂

Jim Carrey: Mind Mastery Mentor

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Hey there my beloved Transformation Nation!

On this rainy March Monday as I began to imagine what the Daily Mind Mastery Moment would be about, I stumbled upon this incredible nugget of transformation GOLD…

Jim Carrey’s Commencement Address at the 2014 Maharishi University Graduation

This guy is a Modern Jedi Mind Master. Holy Guacamole!

It caused me to laugh and reflect and renew my commitment to supporting YOU in your journey of transformation with the tools, techniques and talents that I bring to the world… so that YOU can bring YOURS to the world as well.

Like a lot of Processes, it started with a short “taste” of what Jim Carrey said…
if you are pressed for time, watch this first…
Short version of Jim Carrey’s Commencement Address at the 2014 Maharishi University Graduation:

Everyone Is Talking About Jim Carrey’s Speech. In Just 1 Minute, He Absolutely NAILS Life.

Posted by Tyrone Hoskins on Friday, June 20, 2014

Then if you are ready to go deeper, check out the full speech. it totally and positively transformed my day (and my day was ALREADY AWESOME)….I hope it does the same for YOU. Enjoy!
Jim Carrey’s Full Commencement Address at the 2014 Maharishi University Graduation

– 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

Click the link below to:

Or just leave a comment below 🙂

It Calls To You

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“It Calls To You…”

You hear the phrase a lot around religious and spiritual circles… “I feel CALLED…”

Lately I’ve heard it in business and career contexts as well…

The notion is growing in our cultural consciousness that our work can be something that is so meaningful, and personally significant that it is “not just a job, it’s an adventure”

It’s not just a job it’s a “calling”…

One of the areas I’ve done a lot of work around in my own life as well as with clients over the years is clearing the old limiting beliefs around “what you’re supposed to do in order to make a living.”

The majority of the population has internalized the sad and stressful idea that they don’t really have a choice. The parody of the 7 Dwarves song, “Hi Ho, Hi Ho” has become a negative mantra for many:

“I owe, I owe, so off to work I go”…

Its a sad song sung in many a head on rainy Monday mornings like today.

So I want to share with you today a song as well as a somewhat RADICAL idea.

Something IS calling to you.

You may not be able to hear it because it sometimes is a whisper, and we are really good at pushing away those “inconvenient truths” that don’t conform to our social or cultural “rules”.

and Yes. being homeless and destitute is not exactly something kids grow up wanting to be.
Personally, I’ve been there and done that and in retrospect it was a gift to realize how little we actually need to live and how resourceful we can actually be.

I personally prefer prosperity and abundance… But those things do not necessarily require a large bank account.

I would be willing to bet cold hard cash, that you have a dream, a vision, a yearning for your life that calls to you…

And when we are called out of our old habits, patterns, self sabotage, and routines of anxiety and fear, it can be damn scary…

IF we attempt to do it ALONE.

And that’s where these Daily Mind Mastery posts and Transformation Tunes come in.

You are not alone because I am right here working on answering MY call along with YOU.

And I am not alone because I know YOU are reading these posts and listening to these songs and APPLYING them to your own life…

And that makes all the difference.

A really BIG idea has been calling me for a while now… and I’m about to take MASSIVE action on it…

I’m about to take MASSIVE ACTION in a way that is specifically designed to have a massively positive impact on YOUR journey and adventure of answering YOUR calling…

There will be something for my local, Albany NY friends and fans as well as something that my growing global gang of Transformation Nation members can join in and participate in as well…

So keep an eye on these articles or join the Daily Mind Mastery Newsletter List…

It’s coming soon.

In the meantime,

Today’s Transformation Tune is Song # 141 “It Calls To You” (<=== Click the link or use the player at the top)

It’s about the environment calling to us to stop the destruction and start paying attention to sustainability. And that concept applies to our personal, professional and spiritual lives as well…

Ideas are only good if they can be sustained in a congruent and ecological way. And that takes some time and attention. There may be a process of trial and error, of action and reflection that needs to be experienced in real time.

So my friends, take heart, listen to that still small voice in your life. Trust it.

And trusting it doesn’t mean you have to quit your job right away, but you may want to consider what it would be like to simplify, downsize and appreciate the abundance of resources and friendships you have right now and how they already form the foundation of YOU answering YOUR “CALL”.

You have everything you need to take the next step now…

So your assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to take a few moments to reflect upon and write down what it is you would do if money and the earning of it were not required. In other words if you were independently wealthy and wanted to totally and completely explore an idea, a passion, a project, a goal without having to earn an income, what would that be?

There is no right or wrong answer, and you don’t have to come up with any plan or step by step process to do it. Just knowing what it is is the first step. I’ll share with you tomorrow what mine is… in the meantime,

Peace and grooviness!

Cowabungah!

I will see YOU on the INSIDE!

– 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

Click the link below to:

Or just leave a comment below 🙂

Chunking UP and The Ecology of Congruence

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Chunking UP and The Ecology of Congruence

Yo! Transformation Nation!

Today we are exploring the NLP concept of Chunking up and making sure your decisions for your work and relationships are CONGRUENT.

This has been an issue for me as well as many, many of my friends and clients.

How do you discover the “one thing” that truly satisfies your soul? When you love to do a bunch of things… (that all seem unrelated).

What is the “one thing” that just makes everything make sense and brings all of YOU under the laser beam focus that empowers you to make rapid progress, consistently AND sustainably?

19703982_mIn my NLP trainings we cover a subject that actually gives us this power. It’s called “Chunking”.

If you “chunk up” you are going more big picture. If you “chunk down” you get deeper into the details.

Now if you’re like me, you have a bunch of areas of interest in your life, you may have a ton of different talents and abilities that you love to explore and expand. And that’s great!

The challenge comes when we attempt to find a way to make a living that honors many aspects of ourselves and talents at the same time that it delivers real, actual VALUE to SOMEONE who will pay you money for the RESULT you provide for THEM.

(BTW I’m working on a course about MONEY and RIGHT LIVELIHOOD that goes deep with this).

Those of you on my lists who have been reading my emails for awhile have literally seen in action my own process for “chunking up”.

Back in July I started asking,
“How can I combine and integrate all the areas of expertise I’ve developed in my private NLP/Hypnosis practice over the years into ONE congruent, ecological website?

The result is HonestHypnosis.com 

Instead of a website for each and every course (which was driving me crazy), I have one site where ALL my  courses can be accessed in one handy place…with one handy user name and password. scroll up to the top menu and check out “Programs”

BOOM! Shift! (and a lot of work for my wordpress guru Michael Guerin LOL)

Lately I’ve been asking THESE questions:

“How can I integrate my music, my storytelling, my visual art, my insatiable curiosity for personal development and peak performance into my love of Hypnosis, NLP, EFT, Timeline Therapy, Energy Healing and  “NON-Religious Spirituality?”

also:

“How can I do one single email and blog post each day that gracefully honors my gifts and talents and personal transformation journey in a way that supports, encourages and inspires YOURS?”

HOWEVER!

In the process of asking these questions it was clear to me that I can no longer separate out my music from my transformation work.

So today we have a mind mastery tip and challenge about “chunking” AND a song that supports the concept and acts as an instant, “Wide Awake” hypnosis session.

So here’s the NLP “Mind Mastery” idea:
To chunk up to a bigger picture that includes all the stuff you love and desire in your “one thing” you simply ask

“What is this an example of?”

To illustrate simply – Think about a car. Now ask, “What is this an example of?” And you might get, “vehicle”…

then ask “What is a vehicle an example of?” and you might get “Transportation”

Then ask, “What is transportation an example of?” And you might get “movement”.

Of Course there’s a point where you’ve chunked up enough… and that’s where you are chunked high enough so that everything you love doing is an example of a single, focused, higher level of thinking…

So I asked myself, “what is my music an example of?”
And “what are all these cool mind mastery techniques examples of?”

I got HYPNOSIS… what is hypnosis an example of? and I got, Transformational Communication…

What this is all about, what I am all about is communicating to myself and others in a way that positively transforms our challenges and struggles into an empowered experience of being fully alive.

Boom! Shazaam! Oya moochka hannah hee knee!

COW-A-BUN-GAH!

Now I can work on whatever moves me every day and STILL be on target, on track on focus.

Does that make sense? Do you see it clearly? How does that feel? Does that ring a bell?

For years I struggled with “Do I do MUSIC?” or “Do I Do NLP/Hypnosis?” But suddenly it is brilliantly clear.

IT IS ALL THE SAME THING! Transformational Communication!

And all of a sudden…. Ahhhhh. Congruence. Everything is in alignment. It is suddenly ECOLOGICAL for me to connect with you daily and share a song AND and idea…. through the written word, the spoken word, the SUNG word…. and what are “words” examples of? Communication!

And if the words and ideas are about transforming your life, then we have my dear friend, TRANSFORMATIONAL COMMUNICATION.

The hound that chases two rabbits catches none! Focus is important, but if you chunk high enough your “focus” can include multiple “rabbits” – YOUR multiple talents, abilities and interests.

So your assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to “Chunk up” in your life and see what you get.

As always I am happy to answer your questions so feel free to Contact Me

And the soundtrack for that transformational process today is Rise Up And Dance


This “wide awake hypnosis session in song” was written at a pivotal moment at the very beginning of my transformation adventure. And no matter where YOU are on your journey there is a powerful message in the song that can ignite and confirm your passionate power to create change, healing and transformation in your own life.

Enjoy!

Cowabungah!

I will see YOU on the inside!

– Mark

p.s. I’m heading down to the recording studio today to record some more of the new tunes that are DELUGING me. I still have a ton of new videos to share with you, and a bunch of new courses in progress so YOU will hear about those soon…