Clear The Fear Fast

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Ultimately there is one “root-cause” emotion keeping you from a life of unlimited abundance, creativity, success, and joy—

FEAR.

• Do you avoid the very things that would bring you money, recognition, success, love, health & well being you want?

• Do you worry or get anxious about tests, presentations, sales calls, dating, performance reviews, constructive criticism or other “feedback”?

• Do you have embarrassing phobias that cost you?

• Do you procrastinate or struggle with making decisions?

• Do certain people or situations trigger gut churning irrational fear, sadness, anger, guilt or shame?

• Do your feelings get hurt or do you get offended easily?

• Do you have talents and abilities that aren’t being fully utilized?

• Are there negative patterns in your life, relationships and work you seem doomed to repeat?

• Do you struggle with shyness, anger, sadness, guilt, shame, binge eating, compulsive or addictive behaviors?

What is your fear costing you?

Let me guess. You have tried will power, forcing yourself to do the thing you are afraid of. And since that didn't work, you just do your utmost to avoid the situations that trigger your discomfort, shyness, anxiety, fear, phobia or panic.

Avoidance is tricky though because you never know when you will suddenly experience the full onslaught of fight or flight chemicals racing through your body, clenched teeth, tight throat, light head, churning gut, sweaty, shaking hands and worse.

You've probably beaten yourself up asking, "What's wrong with me? Other people seem to be able to do this, why can't I?."

Let me assure you there is nothing wrong with you. It's just that you are very likely a highly sensitive person who is extremely intelligent, creative and imaginative.

You are using the power of your mind to make yourself miserable.

If you stop and think about it that's an amazing skill!

What I help you do is use those same skills in a different way so you get better results. Even better, you get to be in charge of your change so you can maintain it.

1. Recognize that your problem is costing you money, health, love, peace of mind and more.

2. Realize you need help to change it. It's not just going to disappear one day by itself.

3. Understand that whatever you have tried in the past has not worked so continuing to do that will continue to get you the same old results and may even make the problem worse.

4. Be open to the idea that with the proper approach combined with leading edge transformation tools, you can change fast and the changes can last.

Okay so what do you need to do to Clear the Fear? (by the way pretty much every negative pattern in people’s lives has fear as it’s root cause)

Step 1. Understanding/ Recognition:

Clearing the fear and other negative behaviors and beliefs begins with understanding and recognition that whatever “reality” we experience in our lives is created by us through our habitual patterns of thought, perception and behavior.

Step 2. Rapid Clearing:

Once we understand what the patterns are, we can change them using leading edge techniques like

• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

• Time Line Therapy™

• Advanced Hypnosis, and

• Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). 
  
  See Rapid Change Resources page for more info about these techniques

Usually my “Clear the Fear Fast!” Breakthrough Program can clear these patterns in as little as 5-10 hours of one-on-one therapeutic coaching (please note, sometimes it takes longer. sometimes it takes less time!).

Step 3. Long Term Follow-up Support & Reinforcement:

Once we’ve made the changes and learned the tools to create a better experience in our lives, it’s important to support and reinforce the changes. Sometimes after we clear the original presenting problem, there are other issues that come up and need to be addressed. That’s great! We now have the tools to clear any negative pattern. So the follow-up portion of the program is really important.  

These are the 3 steps that I’ve found are crucial to creating fast, positive, permanent change.

1. Recognition/Understanding,

2. Access to Tools of Transformation and

3. Support/Reinforcement

Alright! But what do I mean by “Fast”? It all depends on the person and the problem.

Phobia, or Anxiety:  
I can often assist a person with a severe phobia or anxiety pattern to clear their fear in a single 4-5 hour session (please be assured, we take plenty of breaks! We even have fun!). It is not unusual for a person at the end of that first day to go out and do the thing he or she was terrified of doing and have fun doing it! Typically these people only need one or two short follow-up sessions (if any).

Success Sabotage, Anxiety Based Eating Disorders, Sales Anxiety, Shyness based dating issues  typically benefit from my follow-up programs over 3, 6 or 12 months.

Some factors in Rapid Change:
You must have a strong desire to change. My most successful clients are the ones who can't stand suffering any more and are willing to do whatever it takes to change.

The more motivated you are the faster and more permanent the results. Your willingness to take charge of your change is a crucial factor also. I don’t change you. You  change yourself with the tools and techniques I teach you.

My responsibility is to help you see what you couldn’t see, become aware of what was underneath the surface and assist you in clearing your negative unconscious programming.  I provide the leverage that a good coach provides so that you can save time and money, frustration and dead ends.

Does it work? Yes. I use these skills every day in my own life and my clients do too.

Here are just a few  testimonials from real people like you:

"I wanted to share some good news with you...I found out today that I passed 
my nursing boards! Thank you so much for all of your help and encouragement. 
The tools you provided me with definitely 
helped me during the exam." - Michele W., nursing student

"After working with Mark to clear certain limiting beliefs and fears, I 
doubled my month's income! - Jeff T. Internet Consultant

Mark Shepard has made a world of difference for me. In just a few short sessions we identified and released deeply embedded but unacknowledged beliefs and behaviors that diminished my energy and effectiveness. I’m amazed at how powerful his techniques are; the results were immediate and profound. - Beverly Sastri, author, speaker, coach, consultant  www.powersourcenow.com

Please see my testimonials page for more.

The result of our work is a consistently more resourceful approach to the challenges of life. We all have problems and challenges. The difference is that my successful clients realize they’ve been using a very effective set of specific skills to make themselves miserable. We start using those same skills to make your life magical. The amount of effort is the same.

Sometimes the results are immediate and profound. Other times the changes begin to build up in your life as you begin to put into practice my system for feeling calm and confident. It’s not unusual for my clients to dramatically increase their incomes, and success in all areas of their lives.

I'm known to work best with bright, highly sensitive and imaginative people who have absolutely “had it” with being miserable and are ready to do whatever it takes to make the changes in their lives they know they must make. I don't enjoy working with whiners or skeptics or people who make excuses or who expect me to "fix them" without any effort on their part. So, I need you to know that I'm very selective in who I work with.

I particularly enjoy working with people who take their own personal growth seriously and who are willing to read the books I suggest and who commit to doing their homework assignments as well as respect the appointments we make by showing up on time.

A little about my background:
I was pretty much afraid of everything. I was always the shy kid, the sensitive, thin skinned one who always hesitated before doing anything. You name it, my fear and internal resistance kept me miserable. I tried everything from therapy to motivational cassettes. Nothing seemed to work until I discovered NLP, Hypnosis, Time Line and more recently EFT.

I cured my own “dating shyness” in moments. Seriously. Some of my other long term patterns of self sabotage took a bit longer but within a relatively short time of earnestly applying all the tools I will be using with you, I was loving my life and work and living to the fullest.

One of my biggest challenges was somehow finding a way to get my 400 or so original songs out of my living room and into the ears and hearts of people who could appreciate and benefit from it. For 25 years I basically kept it under wraps and it was painful. Check it out: www.MarkShepard.com Now, I’ve integrated my music into every area of my life including my private practice and my speaking engagements. I've even written a "Clear The Fear" theme song! Also, because of these techniques, I am dramatically more relaxed and at ease in front of my audiences as well as dealing with criticism and uninvited "feedback".

I know this program works because I use it everyday on me.

In opening up my Clear The Fear Fast consulting practice I wanted to help others like myself who were quietly desperate and miserable.
I quickly became known as someone who helps people make the changes they want to make fast... Best of all, I'm in the trenches with you, so I never approach working with a client from a pedestal or talking down to them (not my style). I'm your partner. That makes me really approachable and accessible.  

The same process that worked for me and so many of my other clients can work for you faster and more easily than you might think.
 

I answer even more questions at this link: FAQ

Please Take the time to read this before calling to set up your  free initial "get acquainted" call.

Q: How long have you been doing what you do and how did you get to be an NLP Rapid Change Specialist?

A: I have been actively engaged as a student and practitioner of transformation,  personal growth and alternative healing practices since 1989. To best answer this question let me share the story of how I got to where I am today...

Like most of my clients, I have always been a highly sensitive person. I am creative and blessed (sometimes it felt like a curse) with a wide range of talents and abilities. In High School I started writing songs which were so good, my friends insisted that I "should do something with them." They all seemed to think I should be "famous".

The only problem with that was I had an extremely introverted personality. I was shy and full of fear and anxiety.

At one point I would make myself sick just before every (and I mean every) significant performance. I also had no energy and was physically exhausted much of the time. I ran into similar problems in my personal life. I would get so nervous trying to ask a girl out that I would just go to pieces. To quote my friend and coach Kim Kasparian, "I had more issues than tissues."

To make a long story short, at one point in my late 20's and early 30's I simply gave up on music. It made me so miserable I couldn't stand it any more. I would perform at a coffeehouse and some guy would get up and leave and I would think it was because he didn't like my music!

It almost sounds silly to me now but it got so bad I thought about ending it all. One day I hit absolute rock bottom and came to that moment of decision we all have to come to before we are ready to change. Luckily I realized I had a choice. I finally "got" that I had created the pain.  Therefore, I could heal it.

I began to take action and work on myself. I read books, went to seminars, even studied with an energy healer. At first it didn't seem to make any difference. One day, I was so broke and down and out that I ended up calling all the nursery schools in the phone book and offering to play guitar and sing kid songs for $75.00. It was oneo fthe best things that could have ever happened!

I eventually added storytelling and exotic hand drumming to put together a career as a kid performer. Several years later I was booking DrumSongStory programs all over New England and charging $1,000 and up per hour.

I had made so much progress, but I was still struggling, frustrated, lonely and full of fear and anxiety. I could do kid shows but the mere thought of performing for adults usually caused me to mysteriously get sick.

One day I was so miserable on so many different fronts (in spite of all the work I'd done on myself) that I went to the bookstore to try to find some book I could read to help me pull out of it. I found "Changing Belief Systems with NLP" by Robert Dilts.

Within moments after doing one of the NLP exercises, I had literally erased my shyness. Soon I was on the internet researching Neuro Linguistic Programming and sending away for training tapes. I started make rapid changes and discovered to my delight that the stuff I was changing stayed changed! Of course other challenges came up, but I now had tools to deal with the slings and arrows of romance and daily life.

I had to learn more. I eventually received certification as a hypnotherapist in 2002 and then in 2003 did an extensive training course with world renown NLP expert, Dr. Tad James. I am now a certified master practitioner and trainer of NLP, Hypnosis, & Time Line Therapy™ . I also began work on my PhD in clinical hypnosis that year and continue to study and learn more in preparation for my dissertation..

I opened my practice in early 2003 and have been honing my skills and my approach to assisting others since that time.

One defining moment was a severe phobia case I worked with.

Case Study: Fear of Bridges and Heights, cleared in one session.

I received a call from a man who had been experiencing increasing difficulty crossing bridges. He was also having trouble with his fear of heights, to such an extent that even seeing someone up high on TV would cause him to feel faint. On several occasions, when approaching a high window or balcony, he actually passed out.

The incident that brought him to my office was typical. He had successfully (if tensely) driven over a big bridge in one direction. Yet coming back in the opposite direction, he actually had a frightening hallucination whereby the bridge seemed to grow longer and longer.

He sped up to try to get off the bridge but realized that he was posing a threat to other motorists as well as to himself. The risk of dying due to his fear reaction was clearly greater than the risk of falling off the bridge.

His level of motivation to change was high. He agreed to set aside a full day for our first session together. We worked for 2 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon.

Result: That very night he drove over a particularly high, narrow bridge with no problem! His passenger was amazed that this man showed none of the tenseness, sweating, or rapid breathing, etc. he had exhibited on other occasions.

That same evening he was at a party, chatting with friends out on a second-story balcony. He was actually leaning against the railing and didn’t realize until after he went into the house that he had done something the mere thought of which, only hours earlier, might have led him to faint.

I just did a follow up with this man over a year later. He is still crossing bridges more easily than he ever thought possible.

Some insights:
Helping this man make this change so rapidly and powerfully, totally motivated me. Soon others followed and it has just become typical for me to be able to help most severe phobia sufferers I work with to be free of their problem in a single day long session. Other fear and anxiety based challenges may take longer. Obviously I can't guarantee that your problem will disappear in a single session but it happens pretty regularly.

The other insight I've had in working with fears and phobias is that I understand these folks because I am one of them.

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