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Hypnosis IS Transformational Communication

March 5, 2016 by Mark Shepard

Here’s is a FRESH new video I made for you about transformational communication. Please understand that this is actually a 10 minute conversational hypnosis session that is designed to communicate directly to your unconscious mind. It will work best for  you if you are willing to take 10 minutes for yourself right now, and practice whatever breath awareness you do… open your mind… relax and then notice how your day improves as a result. :o)

(Plus for no extra charge one of my best “Transformation Tunes” below it)…

Song # 104 Minstrel Fires: (Check out more of my Transformation Tunes)

Got questions? Contact Me here!

Filed Under: Articles, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Empowerment Songs, Healing, Keys To Cowabungah, Music, Overcoming Obstacles, Path with Heart - Massive Throbbing Vision, Self Hypnosis, Transformation, Transformation Songs

The Energy of Sound

January 30, 2016 by Mark Shepard

For any of you who may not quite “get” the connection between my work as a songwriter and my work as a hypnotherapist/NLP Practitioner, this short video illustrates it perfectly.

The “energy” or frequency of sound vibrations creates structures and patterns in our bodies. The sounds we are exposed to have to have an effect upon our very cells, organs and tissues of our bodies.

My point is that we are constantly reacting unconsciously to sounds, words, ideas, music, around us.

Therefore it makes sense to choose carefully what we expose ourselves to.

It also makes sense to be aware that the dominant thoughts of our lives reverberate though not just our own body but the space and people around us. Enough from ME! Watch this short video!

Thoughts? Questions?

Contact me!

Filed Under: Articles, Dominant Thoughts, Energy, Music, Sound Healing, Transformation Songs

Shyness To Boldness

January 29, 2016 by Mark Shepard

First things first!

(Then some other cool stuff for you as you scroll down)

As you may or may not know, the very reason I learned NLP and Hypnosis was because I for the life of me could not seem to get my original songs out into the world to the actual people who most appreciate it…

(Shyness, social anxiety, performance anxiety / stage fright etc. Been there. Done that. )

Thanks to my Personal Mind Mastery tools, I’ve made progress. These days, I’m deep in a huge project called, “A Life In Song” where I am recording and sharing as many of my 500 plays songs as I humanly can.

The song I just released this morning for that project triggered some thoughts about moving from Shy to Bold… So I thought I’d riff off of it and share both the music and the message with you today! Here’s the song (you can click the links in the player to read the lyrics or download or share)

It contains the line,
“I never thought that I could be so bold, I found my diamonds in the road…”

I don’t know if you struggle with this or not but most of my life I was… um…

how do I put this? (What pops in are not a “nice” words in my vocabulary)…

“Tentative”…

“Hesitant”…

“Shy”…

“Fearful”…

I was the guy at the middle school and high school dances hugging the wall… In fact I never went to
my High School prom.

I went to the UN with my church youth group for a peace conference instead… (told you I was a bit odd LOL)

But at a certain point in your life don’t you just want to bust out of the old ways you “used to be” and play with being bold? I mean, what would it be like to try it on for a little while to see how it feels?

What would it be like to totally RE-INVENT yourself to be more and more who you would love to become accustomed to being?

Looking back over 40 years of writing songs that I basically never sang to anybody, it strikes me what a supremely perfect challenge it was (and still is) for a self identified

“Massive Introvert”

to compulsively engage in an art form that DEMANDS other people! Songs are really a partnership between artist and audience.

When you think about it, if a song is never sung, recorded or transcribed into sheet music…

It basically doesn’t exist…

At least a painting “exists” outside of it’s creator… but a song unsung? Gone. Poof.

I’ve been reflecting lately on how to ​best integrate this “art form” that seems to demand that I show up and allow the “muse” to come through me…

but seems to also “force” me (in a wonderfully healing way) to keep working on opening up the channels to people who value, appreciate and understand it enough to allow the songs into the most intimate space…

Between YOUR ears.

What’s going on between your ears and my ears… matters.

A wonderful Transformation Tribe member from the UK, Jason, wrote me recently and described in a beautiful analogy that our thoughts affect our body in much the same way that food does.

My name is Jason and I’m writing to you all the way from the U.K.

I came across one of your videos a few days ago by chance, and
what you said in those couple of videos was a total epiphany
moment for me. So I would like to begin by saying thank you 🙂

…The epiphany moment from you was realising that whatever
thoughts I put into my mind my subconscious would react to,
it can’t tell the difference. Just like the body, whatever
we put into our mouths and consume the body has no choice
but to process. If we put healthy fresh, colourful things
in it will process all the goodness and nutrients, if we
put stodgy, fatty unhealthy food in it has no choice but
to process that too, so we choose what we want our bodies
to process just like our minds.

I have been asking myself 100’s of positive why questions
every day and can already see how that is so much healthier
for the subconscious.

It totally changes your perception of the event or situation,
it’s an incredible tool. It’s like the ‘whacking’ games at
arcades. I’m ready with a mallet to bat down any negative
thought that pops up, and it’s a game that is constantly
running but I always have my mallet (positive why question)
to hit it away with in a split second…

-Jason

P.S. I don’t know if you have noticed, but the journey you
are on and the progress you have personally made is blindingly
evident if you look back on this video from 2008.

You seem 10/15/20 years younger now then you did 8 years ago. The
way you dress, your energy, your whole aura is different.
Just thought I would point that out as a mark of your own progress.

Wow! Thanks Jason! Rock on brother!

(BTW I would love to hear YOUR story as well so use the contact link at the bottom and share it ok? YOU can inspire ME as well as the rest of the Trance-Formation Nation gang. )

So it makes sense to be careful about what goes into your mind (as well as your body).

Not all my songs are positive and healing… But this one just might be…

I’m not sure even what it’s really about… feel free to give me your ideas…

Looking back I can see that my dream from 1976 of sharing my music with the world from the comfort of my own home has now become a reality! Deep gratitude for the INTERNET! People all over the world are singing my “Together We Can Change The World” Song and I didn’t have to visit them personally :o) LOL

So to YOU, my action taking, intelligent, creative, loving, learning, Transformation Nation member…

…​Enjoy your opportunity to become who you want to become!

Move YOUR dream forward just a little bit today…

You don’t have to be TOTALLY BOLD about it. But you can carefully, gently, lovingly, be a little bit bolder… about taking your passions and preferences, yearnings and talents out into the wider world… one small step at a time…

COWABUNGAH!

Love,

Mark

p.s. Contact me here

p.p.s. Ready to transform you own life? You might want to check out some of my Personal Mind Mastery Programs:
HonestHypnosis.com/Programs

Filed Under: Articles, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Dominant Thoughts, Empowerment Songs, Innovative Thinking, Keys To Cowabungah, Music, Performance Anxiety, Self Improvement, Transformation Songs

Go Deep-song

November 11, 2015 by Mark Shepard

hh-11-11-go-deep-ss1Crazy busy today working on “Project X”.

Time to chill out and play a little guitar… sing a little, share a few thoughts to close out the day…

Any questions?

Filed Under: Articles, Creativity, Flow States, Hypnosis to Relax, Keys To Cowabungah, Music, Self Hypnosis, Self Love, Transformation Songs

Real Quick

November 7, 2015 by Mark Shepard

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

P.s. Hey! do you have questions? Contact me.

Filed Under: Changing The World, Conversational Hypnosis, Crush anxiety, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Flow States, How to Overcome Trauma, Hypnosis for anxiety, Music, Self Hypnosis, Transformation Songs

Be The Change

September 26, 2013 by Mark Shepard

Here is the song I wrote for the Albany Peace Project.

The Project kicks of January 1st, 2014 with a group of people focusing their thoughts and intentions on increasing the peace in downtown Albany NY. I felt it was important for me to be involved with this because EVERYTHING I practice and teach is built on the foundation that our thoughts have power to influence our personally reality.

And if that is so, what happens when we join our thoughts together?

Please share!

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: Keys To Cowabungah, Music

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I’ve been applying the techniques…

“Thank you Mark! I’ve been applying the techniques you taught us last week, and DAMN, it seems to be working already (but I’m not positive yet). I also wanted to tell you that I think you’ve got a real winner in your ‘Rain’ song. Ever since I heard it, I can’t get it out of my head! You’re the Best!”

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“The information you are providing in the “CRUSH anxiety NOW!” course is very helpful. Thanks, Mark! BTW, I love your music, too. :-)”

Beth P.

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Jay

The program is so powerful and energetic…

“Mark provided a lot of information and tools to help me in weight loss and in all areas of my life. The program is so powerful and energetic. The camaraderie you encourage is extremely beneficial.”

Ann B.

I’ve been regularly using your breathing techniques…

“Hi Mark, I’ve been regularly using your breathing techniques and positive ‘why’ questions. I also bought your song ‘Arise Arise’ as it seems to really help when nervous.”

Jason

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“Mark’s intensive phobia-releasing session CURED me. The ‘trigger’ no longer causes me to shake and tremble. That’s a miracle! The healing affected more than just me.”

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Leaving my fears in the dust…

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John B.

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