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Transformation Tuesday Test Run

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Stream of Consciousness Test

Hey kids! Today is kind of special to me.

Cuz…

IT’S TUESDAY!
TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY!

Tonight at 7:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m going to do my first live streaming test of the idea that has been nudging me, and tickling me  and  NAGGING at me for something like 4 years!

Here’s Dah Link:
https://www.concertwindow.com/30992-markshepard

It’s  the culmination and combination of 40 years of songwriting, Storytelling, Healing, Personal Development, and plain, old fashioned pain and struggle transformed into empowered, creative, passionate purpose…

My purpose is clear to me: I am here on this earth to make a positive difference in the world through my words and music.
My songs have supported my “process” of healing in my immediate world, my own personal life.

And there is substance behind the songs. Energy. Passion. Intensity. There is an “Intelligence” beyond my own running through them that has served me well. And the work I’ve done outside of songwriting has “informed” them as well…

These powerful, practical tools and techniques for running your own neurology that you can put into practice IMMEDIATELY and experience real life RESULTS. That sounds a lot like HONEST HYPNOSIS doesn’t it?

For you to benefit, these songs and ideas need to be shared. They need to be heard by other ears than mine, sung by other voices than mine. These ideas put into practice in lives beyond mine.

I long for my songs to touch you, to support your healing and self discovery process. I intend to do everything within my power to assist you in transforming YOUR world.

I envision my work touching and inspiring YOU.

And Together, We Can Change The World. Starting tonight!
You and I connecting and combining our energy and vision to make the larger community a better place for all of us (and not just humans).

If you’ve been reading these emails/blog posts, You’ve been experiencing a little bit of my process of combining my skills, talents, abilities and interests here on the Honest Hypnosis Daily Mind Mastery and Transformation Tune Blog.

Tonight we turn it up a notch. I want to invite you to join us. It may not go totally smoothly. There may be some technical learning curves to work out and that’s perfect.

I invite you to participate. I invite you to watch from a safe distance. I invite you to jump right in and join me on this journey of transformation that will have a local and international reach.

Here’s the link to register and watch:

https://www.concertwindow.com/30992-markshepard.

Thanks for your support and attention.
I’ll see you at 7 pm tonight!

COWABUNGAH!

WDIWOBTYCPI?

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. if you have questions please go ahead and hit reply and I will do my best to answer them before “showtime”. :o)

p.p.s. Just in case you can’t make it tonight or need some inspiration right now, I want to share this email I got from my friend Paula who found one of my “Transformation Tunes” helpful. Ironically it was one that I wrote a year ago, recorded on video… and then kind of FORGOT!

I will probably play it tonight on the live broadcast but here it is for you just in case:
(BTW ironically SHE sent ME the link so I could listen to my own damn song! LOL)

Dear Mark, Here’s the link to the song I mentioned the other day:

And… it was song # 500!  🙂
As I had mentioned, this song helped me SO MUCH! I was in a complete downward spiral, pretty near rock bottom. And this song propelled me like a rocket, up to the 1000th floor of the good-feelings building.

— Paula

The Master Mind Effect

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mark mccoy 700xI was away last week in Toronto for a very cool “Immersion Master Mind” for Thought leaders. It was MONUMENTAL.

Seriously. MONUMENTAL

I thought I would be able to keep posting my Mind Mastery Daily and Transformation Tunes for you while I was away… but IMMERSION is IMMERSION.

So I accepted that some “routines” were going to be “interrupted” and I embraced FOCUSING on soaking up some powerful and transformative ideas and strategies for doing what I do, BETTER.

And YOU will benefit from that in the days and weeks to come.
Now back to today.

mmmmmmmmmm MONDAY!
One of my absolute FAVORITE days of the week!

Here we go:

Monday’s Mind Mastery Message:
The Power of the Master Mind!
I’m kind of on the “M” kick today. As well as a MASTERY kick…

One of the great “take aways” from my learning adventure in Toronto last week was the absolute POWER of hanging out with people who are pursuing their passionate purpose in life.

Study after study has shown that people tend to match the income and achievement levels of the people they hang out with the most.

Napoleon Hill in his MASTERFUL book “Think and Grow Rich” mapped out the idea of the “master mind”.

And my favorite songwriter said, “Together we can change the world”…

And of course there was a dude back in “0” AD who said to his 12 buddies, “Where two or more are gathered amazing stuff can happen…”

So last week, not only did I get to experience the inspirational company of some amazing peak performers who like myself are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work on themselves, their lives, and bringing their talents and gifts to the task of making a positive difference in the world,

I got to rub elbows a bit with Olympic Gold Medalist, Mark McKoy.

Not only is he the only Canadian to bring home an Olympic Gold medal in the last 30 years, but he did it at age 30 in an event that considers a 25 year old… OLD.

For a 2 minute jolt of joy, inspiration and grooviness watch this video and see Mark McKoy WIN the Olypmic Gold Medal AGAINST ALL ODDS!

I LOVE the part where the STUNNED CBC broadcasters literally didn’t know what to say other than, “Unbelievable!” (Luckily HE believed in himself because THEY surely didn’t).

One of the key strategies he employed in his 16 year quest was to find and work with the best coaches in the world as well as to surround himself with the company of his BEST competitors.  The Master Mind Effect.

The guy who won Silver was his best friend who he lived and trained with. They pushed each other and caused each other to be better.

One of the greatest challenges with anyone who seeks to transform his or her life is to seek the company of other people who have the effect of PULLING YOU UP. Sometimes this requires letting go of some relationships that do not PULL YOU UP.

I found this to be incredibly true over the years as a hypnotherapist working with people who wanted to stop smoking (or other habits and addictions) if you quit smoking and then go hang out with a bunch of smokers, it’s going to be a lot harder than if you go hang out with a bunch of non smokers. Does that make sense?

Same deal with food issues. If you are attempting to transform your eating and exercise habits, it’s a lot more helpful to hang out with folks who are exercising and nourishing their bodies intelligently than your old gang of couch potato fast food fans.

Whatever you want to achieve in life, you might want to consider finding some other people who have done that or are deep in the process of doing it, and go hang out with them.

Make sense? Engage the master mind effect.

So your assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to take a loving, compassionate look at the company you keep.
Is it supporting you becoming a better person? Or is it pulling you back to being someone you “used” to be? (And BTW my new weekly Music, Message, Meditation, Movement Meet-Up called “Transformation Tuesday” will be a place where you’ll be able to meet other people like yourself who are seeking the source of their own healing, success, strengths, talents and magnificence. ) The Master Mind Effect.

If you’re local to Albany NY I hope you’ll join us. If you are not, please watch this space for info on our live streaming broadcasts and replays.

And Now for Today’s Transformation Tune:
Song # 320 “Field of Dreams”

That’s it for now!

COWABUNGAH BABY!

Ahhhh Who Ahhh!

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. Jump onto the Transformation Nation email list and watch your inbox for your live streaming of Transformation. Tuesday.

What Is Transformation Tuesday?

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Hey! A lot of folks have been asking me lately, “What is Transformation Tuesday?”.

Well. I made a FRESH new video that goes a little overboard on how damn PASSIONATE I am about breaking the old boundaries of self limiting beliefs and going for great in every area of your life… I got a little carried away… But I think you’ll get it. Not everybody will. But YOU will…

Here’s the link to more info about: Transformation Tuesday.

And while you’re here, Hear this cool Transformation Tune that totally supports your mission today:

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 🙂

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 🙂

Transformation Tuesday update

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What is Transformation Tuesday…
and…
What Does It Have To Do With YOU?

There’s a bit of a story here so I humbly ask you for your kind attention:

For the past 40 years I have been on a quest to somehow, someway, find a way to use my music to make a positive difference in the world.

EVERYTHING I’ve had to work on in this process has improved, not just my music, but my health, my relationships, my business skills, my happiness, my ability to thrive even in the face of massive change and economic challenges…. It helped me survive being homeless and destitute and change my inner experience of EVERYTHING so that EVERYTHING served me…

The “Purpose Problem” of being frustrated and tangled up in anxiety, self sabotage, negative mind reads, limiting beliefs, lack of consistency and lack of persistence around my music…

FORCED me to work on myself as if my life and livelihood depended upon it.

Which they actually did.

Along the way, I added storytelling and drumming to my performing and audiences at schools, libraries and other venues responded enthusiastically… DrumSongStory.com

but something was missing…

I then dove deep into researching and putting into practice the most leading edge personal mastery, interpersonal communication skills and mind mastery tools on the planet…

Ericksonian Hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Time Line Therapy, EFT, and Energy Work…

Check out my Honest Hypnosis Programs

And I put them into practice IMMEDIATELY in my own life and watched miracles happen. I obsessively and compulsively PRACTICED the tools and techniques and started writing songs about them as well (which I am sharing here on this site as “Transformation Tunes”.

And in the process (because it is definitely a PROCESS), I watched “disasters” in my life turn into “The best things that could ever happen”.

I started working with clients and watched more miracles happen.

I watched people clear phobias in moments that had plagued them for their entire lives. I watched people lose weight, stop smoking, increase their athletic performance, double their incomes, increase their confidence in challenging situations that used to freak them out… It was very satisfying.

But something was missing.

5 years ago I ended up doing a block of Bullying Prevention School Assembly programs in Arkansas.

And while I was there they had a snowstorm. That meant I needed to reschedule my Thursday and Friday performances for Monday and Tuesday… which meant I had all day Thursday, all day Friday, all day Saturday and ALL… DAY…. SUNDAY. to cool my heels in my cheap hotel room… or… explore.

So I explored. I went to an open mic night and because wasn’t shy anymore (thanks to my self hypnosis and NLP tools), I made some new friends. They invited me to do some cool drumming stuff and some cool crystal bowl healing stuff and they also suggested I check out the local Unity Church because they had a spiritual songwriting group over there.

Well, at the time. I DID NOT DO “CHURCH”. I didn’t care how liberal, or how progressive or how nice. I DID NOT DO CHURCH. But I was BORED OUT OF MY MIND, so I went.

And it was really, really cool. The music was fresh. The ideas were pretty much EXACTLY what I was teaching to my hypnosis clients about the power of their thoughts to create their reality and their experience of “what is”.

In fact, I liked it so much that I made a solemn promise to myself to “find one of these Unity things” when I got back home to Albany NY.

And so I did. I walked in the following Sunday to Unity Church In Albany NY and I knew I was home.

Home…

While I sat there it became clear that here was a place where I could experience community and the company of like minded people.

The people at Unity were mostly “refugees” from other religions, who were seeking something they could use and apply to their lives. A spiritual path that made sense and was actually practical and “Practice-able”.

It was a group of people like me who mostly consider themselves to be “Spiritual But Not Religious”.

Cool!
No guilt trips. No proselytizing. No having to believe in stuff literally that was clearly “metaphorical”…

It was a place where I loved to be.

I soon invited myself to join the music team (they couldn’t get rid of me!) and I started writing song after song inspired by the talks the minister Jim Fuller gave, inspired by the ideas that were moving through me.
And it felt like Home.

Here’s one of the songs written there…

In the 2nd two years there, I released 2 CD’s of my “Spiritual but not Religious” songs that were mostly songs written for my beloved Unity community. “The Fire Before The Flame” and “Home Across The Sea”.

And pretty much every single Sunday, you could find me at Unity Church playing the piano (which I hadn’t done in 20 years) and singing one of my original songs within the “New Thought” song mix that music director Roger Mock brilliantly matched to whatever the minister’s talk was about.

Roger urged me to submit my songs to the Posi Awards and as a result my song, “Together We Can Change The World” was nominated and then received a Posi Award which as been called, “the Grammy of the Positive Music Movement.”

and I was content…

Until recently. :o)

Something has shifted so deeply in me that is just DEMANDING I PAY ATTENTION.

  • I have a wealth of transformational songs to share with the world… (515 and counting) and it’s way more than can be used in the Sunday morning or evening settings at Unity…
  • AND I also have something to say. I have stories that are clamoring inside me that could help people as well…
  • AND I have a wealth of experience helping people to transform their lives.
  • AND singing one or two of my songs each Sunday barely scratches the surface of what I want to contribute.
  • I want to be of service to my fellow human beings at the same time that I intelligently and congruently integrate and use all of my god given abilities and interests to help YOU… live a richer, more joyful, more empowered life.
    You are my beloved Transformation Nation and while many of you who receive these emails each day are from my cherished local community at Unity, many of you are from all over the world…

So what keeps nudging me and pestering me is…

The idea of a day during the week when I could use my talents and abilities in a way that integrates the songs, the stories, the spirituality and the practical tools of transformation that have helped me and my clients so much over the past 15 years…

It will have a local component where folks in my hometown of Albany NY can come and join their hearts, minds and voices with mine on a regular basis on Tuesday nights… Transformation Tuesdays!…

That way I can still contribute on Sundays with the Unity Music Team AND give more that I can currently give in that setting.

AND it will also be streamed live so that those of you who are scattered all over the country (and the world) will be able to participate and share in it as well. After all, there is no time or space. Our energy can be combined and enhanced no matter where we are physically.

So Transformation Tuesday is coming…

From the depths of my heart I want to invite you to join me…

Here are some of the details as they are forming…

Each Transformation Tuesday event will start with

  • Meditation Movements – We’ll move our bodies in ways that are specifically designed to increase endorphins, and healthy energy flow throughout the body. We’ll ground ourselves and get the breathing and gentle “tai chi like” movements charging up our fields. This will empower us to transform whatever energy, state, or mood we are in or working through into personal empowerment.
    Next, we will begin to use
  • Intentional Chants, Transformation Tunes and Toning to take that energy process to a deeper, higher, wider, level.
    Then once we “tune in” we will bring our hearts and minds together for a
  • Specific Transformational Intention that will assist each of us to apply one or two simple, powerful Mind/Heart/Body Personal Mastery Tools to our own lives, situations, relationships, etc.
    Once we focus on what we want and discover a new way of looking at and experiencing the things we desire to transform, we’ll go into a
  • Guided Meditation, Visualization, Hypnosis, (whatever you want to label it) to let go of what we need to let go of and internalize and focus our minds, hearts, bodies and spirits on what we DO want…
  • We’ll then “Lock In The Change” with a few more appropriate Transformation Tunes and
  • “Release the Form” as we bring the evening to a close and set the intention for a fabulous next 7 days…

There will also be time at the end to simply hang out and share our individual experiences with each other.

Are you in?

Let me know so I can save a seat for you!

– Mark

p.s. Today’s Transformation Tune is…
Song #444 “The Fire Before The Flame”

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 🙂

Transformation Tuesdays are Coming!

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Transformation Tuesdays Are Coming Soon!

There has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes in my life.
A MASSIVE, MAJOR SHIFT.

For years I struggled with what to “focus on” (can you relate?):

  • Should I focus on my music?
  • Should I focus on Storytelling and School Assemblies?
  • Should I focus on Professional Speaking for the corporate market?
  • Should I focus on my Hypnosis/NLP/EFT Healing practice?

And as I worked on each area for awhile, whatever I learned, whatever I discovered, whatever I healed and released in my own life made attempting to “figure out” what I “should” focus on more and more frustrating!

I don’t know about you, but in my life, there are no neat separate little boxes. PLUS the linguistic pattern of “SHOULD” is a clear clue that “Limited Beliefs” or “Limited Thinking” is in operation.

The Unlimited truth is more inclusive:

  • I use music and storytelling in my hypnosis sessions and NLP trainings…
  • I use music and drumming and transformational neuro linguistic language patterns when I’m billed as a “Storyteller”…
  • I can pretty much stand up in front of any group of people from Elementary Schools to Corporate Conferences and find a way to connect with them and deliver the kind of value that they can immediately use to shift their states, transform their thinking and improve their lives… and I can sings songs and tell stories to support it… :o)

So the big shift that has been happening since July when I began to integrate all of my hypnosis/NLP Personal Transformation Programs under the Honest Hypnosis “umbrella” has continued…

If you’ve been following these posts or have taken the stop to join the Transformation Nation VIP list you might remember a couple of weeks ago me talking about “Chunking UP”…

Well, just so you know I do my best to follow my own advice! I’ve been chunking up and by jove! I think I’ve got it!

I’ve chunked up to TRANSFORMATION.

EVERYTHING I do is TRANSFORMATION!

So I can do a multi-cultural school assembly with my Drums, Songs and Stories and still be totally in alignment with my highest purpose. Check out DrumSongStory.com for more info on that.

I can make awesome music with my musical mentor Roger Mock and my beloved music team at Unity church in Albany on Sundays and still be totally “on task”. UnityAlbany.org

I can create courses for you and daily emails and blog posts integrating my transformation tunes and my “Jedi Mind Mastery” Tools and techniques and it’s still on track. Honest Hypnosis Video & Audio Programs

This may seem obvious to people looking on, but most marketing coaches and business experts will advise you to “FOCUS on a NICHE to grow RICH.” And while I definitely benefitted over the years from chunking down into a specific “target” areas like “Anxiety Relief” or even more chunked down, specific kinds of anxiety, like “Performance Anxiety” or “Fear of Flying” or Sports Hypnosis, or whatever,

Ultimately EVERYTHING….
and I mean EVERYTHING
I do is about TRANSFORMATION.

And suddenly it kind of HIT me in the face.

SPLAT!

I NEED TO DO SOMETHING ON A WEEKLY BASIS THAT INTEGRATES EVERYTHING I DO IN ONE COHESIVE PROGRAM LIVE AND IN PERSON AS WELL AS STREAMED LIVE ON THE INTERNET…

(sorry about the shouting but I’m just a little bit…

EXCITED…

as I reflected intensely on this idea, what came to me was that the best day for me to actually do it would be TUESDAY evenings…

TRANSFORMATION Tuesdays.

So. Drum roll please!

Starting TUESDAY April 5th 2016. From 7 pm to 8:30 pm Eastern Time, I am inviting you to join me either in person (if you’re local to Albany NY) or by the exciting “streaming” technology on the  internet.

LIVE! in Real Time!

And I will continue EVERY Tuesday thereafter for as long as it continues to feel congruent. :o)

Here’s what will be included:

Each Transformation Tuesday  event will start with

Meditation Movements – We’ll move our bodies in ways that are specifically designed to increase endorphins, and healthy energy flow throughout the body. We’ll ground ourselves and get the breathing and gentle “tai chi like” movements charging up our fields. This will empower us to transform whatever energy, state, or mood we are in or working through into personal empowerment.

Next, we will begin to use
Intentional Chants, Transformation Tunes and Toning to take that energy process to a deeper, higher, wider, level.

Then once we “tune in” we will bring our hearts and minds together for a
Specific Transformational Intention that will assist each of us to apply one or two simple, powerful Mind/Heart/Body Personal Mastery Tools to our own lives, situations, relationships, etc.

Once we focus on what we want and discover a new way of looking at and experiencing the things we desire to transform, we’ll go into a
Guided Meditation, Visualization, Hypnosis, (whatever you want to label it) to let go of what we need to let go of and internalize and focus our minds, hearts, bodies and spirits on what we DO want…

We’ll then “Lock In The Change” with a few more appropriate Transformation Tunes and “Release the Form” as we bring the evening to a close.

There will also be time at the end to simply hang out and share our individual experiences with each other.

Are you in?

Contact Me and Let me know so I can save a seat for you!

In the meantime, Today’s Transformation Tune is:
Song # 472 Be The Change (use this link or the player at the top of this page)

Your Mind Mastery Assignment for Today (should you choose to accept it), is to play today’s Transformation Tune and then take a moment or two to IMAGINE the current challenges, frustrations and obstacles in your life gently and significantly giving way to wholeness, health, abundance, clarity, freedom, empowerment, joy, love and the absolute best kind of TRANSFORMATION you can possibly imagine…

Got it?

AWESOME!

PEACE, LOVE, GROOVINESS!

– Mark

p.s. Whoops! In all the excitement about Transformation Tuesdays, I almost forgot to give a special shout out to my action taking Transformation Nation members who jumped right in to check out my brand new program, “Hypnosis For PTSD”. A special thanks to Linda, Jeremy, Paula, Starsky, and Ronald who grabbed the 5 Scholarship spots. It pays to watch these emails like a hawk, cuz in addition to the free songs, I give you folks the first “heads ups” about new stuff and cool stuff and stuff that is FRESH and exclusively available to ACTION TAKERS.

The new program, “Hypnosis For PTSD”  is now available for purchase at this link:
http://honesthypnosis.com/ptsd-hypnosis-invitation/
please remember that you are totally covered by my iron-clad, money back satisfaction guarantee.

p.p.s.  I love you. I believe in you. And I imagine you whole, healed, healthy, happy, and radiantly transformed in ways that are even better than you can possibly imagine! :o)