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Connie: : I’m delighted to be talking to Mark Romero today. Mark is the creator of a transformational musical technology called Harmonic Alignment. He walked away from a multimillion dollar electronic distributor business to pursue a calling to help people unlock their potential through his music.

It all began when a Quantum Physicist contacted Mark to tell him that his team discovered energy frequencies in Mark’s music that actually harmonized the flow of energy in the body and the brain, resulting in an instant increase of strength, heightened consciousness and the reduction of stress.

I personally have been listening to Mark’s musical prescriptions for a couple of months now and I have to say that I just love them. I play them in my office all the time and the one thing I really noticed is how calm and balanced I feel when his music is on. I feel they have helped me a lot, so I’m so excited to share this information with all of you. Welcome, Mark.

Mark: Thank you for having me.

Connie: Tell us about the discoveries the scientists made about your music.

Mark: A few years ago I was playing at a Wellness Center and this lady that had brought me into play, came up to me after I was done performing and said: “You know, I hear these tones in your music.” I’m looking at her thinking: “Oh, no. Is this lady crazy?” She said: “Nobody else can hear these tones, but I can.” I’m like going: “Okay, certifiable - she is.” Then she got a little bit in my face and she said: “No, listen.” She said: “Let me get one of your CDs. I know these scientists that are going to be interested in your music.”

So low and behold, a few months later I got a call from a gentleman by the name of Dr. Jones. He was a former top consultant to NASA, had been involved in a study, and their study was based on this hypothesis that humanity (with all its wisdom) has dumped over 60,000 man-made chemicals into our air, food and water. In addition, we’ve also surrounded ourselves with a tremendous amount of electronic technology that produces electromagnetic fields. These are fields of energy that are produced by anything that has an electrical current running through it.

They were convinced that these 60,000 man-made chemicals and these electromagnetic fields were actually interrupting our energy, and as quantum physicists they also believed that everything in the universe was made of energy and that these interrupters were actually inhibiting our connection to the field or the source energy or to the energy that makes up everything in the physical universe.

Connie: What are these energy interrupters? What is the benefit of shielding ourselves from their effect?

Mark: Well, what they were convinced was that we were actually interrupting our physical performance, that humanity wasn’t running at its full potential because of these interrupters. When they had contacted me, they invited me to a lecture and when I arrived at this lecture they were doing an extreme amount of testing with physical tests - range of motion, flexibility, endurance, strength testing, applied kinesiology - and they were actually demonstrating how people were going into physically weakened states when being exposed to things that we use everyday, whether it was dusting spray, a container that had at one time held gasoline, cell phones, laptop computers. The biggest guys in the world were physically going weak when being exposed and they said: “This is a physical demonstration of what happens when our energy is interrupted.”

Now through brain mapping they had actually shown that the brain goes into kind of a disharmonic state (between the frequency ranges of the brain) when the energy is being interrupted by these different sources of interruption, whether it’s EMS or some of these chemicals or some of these different things that they were testing with the audience that evening.

Connie: What did they find then? I know they had you play some music, and what did they find then?

Mark: Well, what they were looking for was music that would produce a frequency response to shield the body and the brain from these energy interrupters. They had three criterion that they were looking for. Number one, when the music played in the environment they wanted to see an instant increase in strength, flexibility, endurance, coordination and balance. When an organism is in an optimal energetic strait, it’s going to have an increase in those five physical factors.

The second thing that they were looking for was a harmonization in brain waves. Through brain mapping they were able to identify a state - actually, it was based on athletes in a peak performance state, athletes that were in the zone, performing at their highest level - their brain had a certain harmonization look to it through brain mapping. So, they wanted to see music create this state in the brain.

The third criterion was that the body and the brain had to maintain this state when being exposed to those energy interrupters. At that lecture they were demonstrating how people were going weak and they had me come up and start playing guitar. What I saw next absolutely amazed me! Where people were going weak, all of a sudden they were being strong. They were being exposed to these energy interrupters and they’re not showing the decrease in physical energy that they had previous to the music playing.

Connie: That is amazing, isn’t it? I know on your website, I don’t know about now, but before you had an actual video that a person could watch about the difference the music makes.

Mark: Absolutely. On the website, there are three videos, three different tests: one with a cell phone, a balance test and then there’s a strength test where you can actually witness the before and after difference. Then there are written directions where you can actually perform the test right there at home, in your office or wherever with a friend and experience the shift with the music.

Connie: One thing I wanted to know is what is the most powerful energy interrupter in the universe that you’ve discovered or come across?

Mark: Well, it’s actually what the scientists told me in our discussion, in talking about energy interrupters and talking about the chemicals and talking about the things that inhibit this flow of energy from the field or from source energy. One day, Dr. Jones was having a talk with me. He asked me: “What do you think the most powerful interrupter is?” You know I made some guesses - radiation and stuff like that. He said: “No.” He said, “The most powerful energy interrupters in the world are your own limiting thoughts and beliefs.”

I was just really surprised by that statement, but the more I think about it, it is our beliefs and our perceptions about life and the way that life is that carve our reality. The more and more that I’ve learned about quantum physics and energy and the nature of the world that we live in, I mean, it really makes sense that our beliefs and our perceptions really do impact what shows up in our life experience. Certainly the Law of Attraction talks about this. But basically, he said it’s our own limiting thoughts and beliefs - the beliefs that we’ve acquired through our programming that actually interrupt energy and interrupt what shows up in our life experience.

Connie: What did he think would be the most beneficial way to change that? Why is it so difficult for people to create positive change?

Mark: I think the reason why it’s so hard for us to create change is that we go about it the whole wrong way. Let’s say, if we’re having a prosperity issue, normally what we do is we go get two or three jobs. We work harder. We take massive action out there in the world. That’s fine. But in reality, is that really going to produce the results?

I think we live in a time and an age where we’re starting to realize: “Wait a second. It’s our own beliefs and our perceptions that impact what shows up in our life experience.” Why is it a struggle? For example, let’s look at the weight issue. People go every New Years, making a resolution. They go to the gym. They start working out and dieting, but yet continue to struggle year after year in getting control of their weight. The reason why is because they have beliefs, thoughts and perceptions that have literally been programmed into their operating system software that, until that programming gets changed, they’re going to continually have struggles to create change in that particular aspect of their lives.

Connie: So then music can be an energy interrupter to those beliefs?

Mark: Well, what we were talking about is that the music helps to cancel the effects of the energy interrupters. Quite by accident, a friend of mine one day said: “Mark, you ought to start playing music to people’s stuff, their issues, their beliefs and their perceptions.” I think what we’ve all learned is that thoughts produce frequencies and everything is energy. Thoughts produce different frequencies. Music itself is a vibration, is a frequency, and in essence you can produce an offsetting frequency where basically that limiting frequency can basically be overwritten or null and voided, where it’s no longer impacting that particular person’s energy or what they’re attracting into their experience.

Ultimately, the quickest and the most powerful way to create any kind of change in our life experience is to change within. Until we quit trying to change things outside of ourselves and look at the person in the mirror and begin to change the things that are within ourselves, we’re going to continually struggle to effect positive change in our lives.

Connie: You’ve talked to me about the cosmic game of hide and seek and how we play it. Do you want to comment on that?

Mark: Absolutely. People ask: “Why would I have all these limiting thoughts and beliefs? Why would I do this? Why would I create this? Scientists are now saying that basically through our zero to six years that we have programmed ourselves in how we’re going to be in our life experience. People always ask me: “But, why would I create limiting thoughts and beliefs?”

Well, my own personal philosophy is this - we’re all here to play the game of life, the cosmic game of life. In essence, life is evolving through each and every one of us. Now, if we are truly made of the same energy, of the same magnificence that put the stars into the heavens, set the planets in motion, that means we all have that unlimited potential, that perfection within each and every one of us. The only way for the evolution to take place is to completely forget our divinity, to forget our unlimited potential, to forget our magnificence. So literally, we create all kinds of stories and things to limit ourselves, and this is the game of life.

In essence, to realize and have the experience of being unlimited, to have the experience of being divine, we need to literally create all kinds of stories to forget that we were that way. So, we have parents that say: “You’re this way or you’re that way” growing up or “You’re never going to amount to any good” or “You’re a loser,” or whatever the stories are for each and every one of us. We’ve had situations, whether it’s our parents, teachers, other people in our lives, that have influenced us in those ways and in some ways we’ve actually accepted some of these things as being true and plugged them into our operating system software.

Then hopefully later as we get older we start coming up against issues, things that cause discomfort in ourselves, ‘problems’ so to speak, and those are opportunities for us to begin to reclaim the power back from those stories that we created, whether it was in our zero to six years or even stories that we’ve created after that.

Connie: So then, how does the Harmonic Alignment process that you created help people to change that, to change their stories and to realize how magnificent they are?

Mark: Well, if we think about it, we have literally plugged things into our subconscious (thoughts, beliefs and things that we’re not even consciously aware of in many cases) and all of these things produce frequencies. We hear with the ‘Secret’ and the Law of Attraction that through our conscious mind we need to focus on our end result, and that’s great, but the conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg. I’m more concerned with what’s under the water, and what’s under the water is the subconscious and the unconscious mind where we’ve literally put all these limiting programs in.

Life will give us an opportunity to discover what those are. Around two years ago, I literally started composing music with different intentions to those things that were showing up, to the limiting thoughts and beliefs. Over the course of two years I’ve seen people have major breakthroughs, whether it was in the area of relationship, whether it was in the area of prosperity or their physical health and they’ve been able to have more ease and going with the flow of life.

Literally by producing offsetting frequencies, people can begin to attract into their life experiences, the solutions and the things to help them in their life journey to really evolve and begin the process of unlocking that potential. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s a journey. It’s a process. And music is a great tool to help be able to create the environment for the solutions, for the realizations, for the evolution to take place.

Connie: I want you to describe a little bit more about what your musical prescriptions are.

Mark: I guess when I first started, I started seeing inherent issues that were common in everybody that I was working with, whether it was forgiveness issues or self-worth issues, self-esteem issues. So, I literally started creating a library of music with different intentions to address these issues. Let’s say if somebody had self-love issues, I composed a piece called “Self-Love.” Maybe there might be some issues around forgiveness tied into that. Well, then I had a piece on forgiveness and I started combining these pieces together to really form musical prescriptions.

Let’s say if somebody had an empowerment issue or a self-esteem issue, I would give them the self-empowerment prescription where they would listen to this combination of music with these different pieces within it to help to begin to create that vibration of self-esteem within themselves. I also have like a healthy relationship prescription, which is basically music to help create a healthy relationship, to provide opportunities for that healthy relationship to evolve and to come to fruition.

Literally, it’s much like a physician would prescribe medication to address a certain issue. In this case, I’m prescribing sound therapy, Harmonic Alignment music to help create the positive end result that the individual is seeking.

Connie: I remember a good story that you told me about the first time - how it started for you to play music as a prescription for somebody. Do you know which story I’m talking about? The one about the lady who wanted to sell or lease her house?

Mark: Absolutely.

Connie: Yes, can you tell us that story?

Mark: It’s so funny because my wife likes to give me little nudges and pushes, especially down avenues that I don’t necessarily want to go down and she had done a workshop and gave away as a door prize, a session with me - a sound therapy Harmonic Alignment session. She came home and said: “Here, call this lady. You’re doing a session with her.” I’m like: “Oh, thanks. Thanks for warning me and letting me know.”

So, I had called this individual and she had a rental property that had been empty for six months. She had been doubling up her mortgage and her bills and had a job where her income was fixed and was just suffering from severe stress, having trouble sleeping at night, having some anxiety issues around the whole idea of this financial pressure and not being able to lease or sell this place.

We did a session together and I had asked her: “What would you like to have happen? What is the best way that you would like this to play out?” She said: “Well, I’d either like to sell it or get somebody to lease it out.” So, I played a piece of music to that particular issue and I prescribed a listening regimen for her to listen to the piece of music. Within a week she sent me an e-mail saying: “I can’t believe it. Without effort on my part, somebody contacted me about leasing the place out.” She said: “I just leased the place out easily and effortless. This is amazing.” She was amazed.

I’m thinking: “Okay, lucky.” It was a fluke or something. Then, she sent me another e-mail later towards the end of the year and she said: “I had set the intention that I wanted to sell this piece of land I had up in the mountains. I want to get my hip replaced and this is the best way for me to do it. And I just said I want it done by the end of the year and I decided to use the same piece of music, and low and behold, I just signed a contract. We’re closing the deal on December 31st.”

I’m kind of going: “Hmm, okay, two times. Maybe there’s something to this.” Then finally the third time she called me and said: “I’m going in to have my hip replaced. I just set the intention that I want quick, fast, easy recovery and to just have it be a great thing. So, I’m working with the piece of music again.” Then later she sent me another note: “The doctors are amazed at how quickly I’m healing and I’m really happy with my recovery” and all this stuff. She said: “I’m the biggest fan of your music. I can’t tell you how much I believe in what you’re doing.” That for me was kind of the convincing last piece of the story - that wow, something is here. That sound, tone and vibration can really help create, not only changes within our outer world, but our inner world and ultimately in our physical body also.

Connie: The other thing you do when people work with you with the Harmonic Alignment is you give the person a mantra, you play a piece of music just for them. Tell us about that.

Mark: An idea that I had gotten was that with all my one-on-one clients, I create a mantra piece for them. It’s a piece of music that’s composed specifically to them based on what it is that they want to have in their experience, of what their major challenges are and it’s basically a musical prescription designed specifically for them. I’ve even expanded this now because I’m now starting to do musical prescriptions for companies and organizations that are looking to create certain results or breakthroughs in certain areas or deal with certain challenges that they’re facing - so even taking it to a level beyond the individual. But it’s a piece of music that’s composed specifically for them based on their intentions and what it is that they would like to have create.

In fact, that’s the only piece that people work through consciously, actually do exercise work with during our time working together. The other pieces of music are just played in the environment. But with the mantra piece, they actually do some easy exercises to help create those changes and to help create that vibration.

Connie: What do you find in general or if you can just talk a little bit about what you found happens to people when they do the Harmonic Alignment work?

Mark: The number one thing that jumps up at me is that I find that – all of us are going on our journey in life. I like to use the river as an analogy, and some of us are clinging to the bottom in fear of letting go. Some of us have let go, but are struggling with the current and trying to go in a certain direction or a certain way and the current is trying to take us in another direction. We’re all fighting that process. The number one thing that I find is that people tend to be able to go with the flow of life much easier. Attachments don’t seem to be as rigorous in one’s life experience. They seem to be able to reduce their stress and kind of be more at ease with how life unfolds for them.

Typically, people say, well, is this process all about just instantly manifesting what it is you that you want? We all talk about that, but is that really what we want? I mean I love to the use the analogy that it would be like inviting everybody for the Super Bowl. You have 100,000 people in the audience, all the cameras, all the advertisers, everybody’s in place and the teams are there, ready to play the biggest game of the year. The beginning of the game starts. The referees walk out to the middle of the field for the coin toss and they say: “Okay. Denver wins 27-14 … game over.” There’s no game! That’s just not going to fly. We need to have the journey. We need to have the experience. We put such an emphasis on goals. Goals are great. I mean they launch us in a certain direction, but they’re only there to take us on our journey. Once we reach them, we’re just going to set another one and continue the journey.

The Harmonic Alignment process is designed to optimize people’s journey through life, to be able to help them to reduce their stress, get in touch with their intuition, help create breakthroughs, attract the right solutions and situations, relationships, resources, prosperity or whatever it might be in their life experience to help them achieve their goal and ultimately, to help them in playing the game of life and to have fun in the process.

Connie: I was just remembering your personal story because your path, this path you have now wasn’t always so clear to you.

Mark: No, definitely not.

Connie: I would love to hear how you went from being someone who made a lot of money (multi-millionaire) to what you’re doing now. What was that process for you, that journey?

Mark: Well, for 19 years I had played the game the way that I was taught it should be played. You go to school, you get a job, you work your way up the ladder. You build up the savings account, get a nice big home and the shiny car and all that stuff and then you’ll be happy and fulfilled. Well, I had done all that and after doing that I realized that I was still unhappy and unfulfilled. I’m like kind of going: “Wait a second. What’s the deal here?”

I came home one night and my wife was waiting in the hallway for me. She just said: “I don’t care how much money you’re making. I look in your eyes and you’re dead. When are you going to have the courage to go for your dream?” For me, I had felt that I had a purpose in life. My purpose, I had always felt, was to help people on their journey, on their life experience. I didn’t necessarily see music being part of that, but that’s what I had always felt. As far back from being a little child that’s what my dream was.

Of course, as we grow older, we rationalize our dreams. We put them on the back burner. In many cases, we forget them. I had just reached a point where I’ve done all this and I’m still unhappy. I have to go for the dream. And so, I really embarked upon my own hero’s journey to discover my authentic swing, to discover my soul and who and what I was. Yes, I had to go through the rapids and get beat up against the rocks and go through some tough learning lessons and experiences and things, but I can honestly say today I know my life purpose, who and what I am and why I’m here and what is my authentic self.

I’ve learned to be able to go with the flow of life much more than I was six or seven years ago. When I started this journey I would fight continuously. Well, after a while, you get tired of fighting and you realize that there’s something bigger than us - the river itself - that’s guiding us on our path and on our way. So, it’s been a process. Would I change the journey now? No, I wouldn’t. There’s no way I could go back. It’s been the most amazing evolution experience for me.

My marriage and my relationship with my children is powerful. The relationship with myself and my spirituality has evolved tremendously and I have an opportunity to do what I love to do, which is to help people and to do it through music, which is just an added bonus – it’s like frosting on the cake.

Connie: I just wanted you to speak a little bit about what happened when this quantum physicist contacted you and that process as you were going through wondering if you had made the right decision about letting go of your multimillion dollar business and trying to find your way. Tell us a little bit about that. I thought that was very interesting.

Mark: Well, quite honestly, it kind of freaked me out. I’ll never forget it. My wife was eight months pregnant with our first daughter and she’s lying on the bed and things get kind of uncomfortable in month eight. The baby’s in there kicking around doing her gymnastics program and mom’s in severe discomfort. She said: “Hon, would you come put your hand on my tummy? I’m really uncomfortable.” I would, and every time it would be like peace and quiet. My wife said to me: “You know you’re a healer, don’t you?” I said: “You know what? Don’t even talk to me about that healing stuff.” I said: “That’s the kind of stuff where they take you out back and tie you to a tree and set you on fire. Man, I don’t want anything to do with stuff like that.” She’s looking at me kind of going: “Don’t you think that’s kind of an overreaction?” I said: “You know what? No, it’s not.”

Of course, then she hit me with the real loop. She said: “You know, I think you might have a past life issue to resolve.” Well at that point, I’m like: “Don’t talk to me about that past life stuff. Don’t overwhelm the corporate guy.” I think I got kind of in touch with that when I first found out about the music and really my response was: “I don’t know if I really want to have anything to do with this.”

I’ll never forget, Dr. Jones had me come into his office and he said: “You have two choices in life.” He said: “Either you pick number one, where you’re living a miserable life, trying to deny who and what you are, or number two, you step into what you are and find out where it goes and enjoy the process. What would you rather do?” I kind of said: “Well, thanks for the great choices there, but I think I’ll go with option two.”

And so, I decided to step into the work and yes, I had to work through a lot of resistance about it - my own beliefs and things like that. But the more and more that I did it and the more and more that I saw what was showing up, and how it felt to be doing the work, was a wonderful indicator to me of just how powerful it was and really it was a part of who and what I am.

Connie: How can other people access this technology?

Mark: Well, the easiest way is just to play the music in the environment. I have what I call ‘Phase 1’ music CDs, which is basically like a music CD you would play in the environment like any other CD. They’re great for helping reduce stress, improving your strength, flexibility, endurance, coordination and balance. The response that takes place in the brain also helps heighten intuition and creativity, improve your focus, your memory ability.

The simplest way is just to play the music in your environment - waiting in traffic, studying, learning, recovering from surgery, having health issues - play the music in the environment and it will add that additional energy and put you in this state to be able to optimize your healing ability, to help you to remember more things and to remain focused and grounded and reduce stress.

The next level up, what we found is that by making the music with meditative practices or combining it with guided visualizations and meditation, it was really like putting people on steroids. So Phase 2 is music for meditation and relaxation and then also guided visualizations and meditations. That’s the Phase 2 CD.

So, it depends to what level you want to go through. The Phase 3 is the Harmonic Alignment application specific musical prescriptions. Those are really tailored to specific outcomes or areas that you want to change in your life experience, whether it’s self-empowerment, whether it’s a healthy relationship, whether it’s an ideal weight or whatever that might be. That’s where the musical prescriptions come in. Then ultimately there is the Harmonic Alignment work where I work one-on-one with an individual and take them through the process and tailor the technology specifically to them.

Now, I’m also doing Harmonic Alignment speaking programs and seminars and workshops for companies or organizations or individuals where they can come and participate in the program and get taken through the Harmonic Alignment process in a real live setting, which is musical performance, processes, guided imagery and things like that, to help imprint and literally change the vibration of what’s going on underneath the level of the water of the iceberg, so to speak.

Connie: Do you have a website that people can go check out?

Mark: I do. They can go (now this is kind of a little bit of a lengthy URL, but it’ll work) to www.markromeromusic.com/cmd.php?af=908236.

Connie: We’re just going to wrap up here. So, do you have anything else that you wanted to tell our listeners and readers about your music or about the power of the vibrations or anything?

Mark: I have a great little metaphor to share. I love to use the guitar as a metaphor. We’re like the guitar in certain ways. The strings represent the different facets and aspects of our lives. The strumming and the bucking is the action that we take in the world and that we take within those aspects of our lives. And of course the music, the sound, is the results that we produce.

I don’t care how great of a guitarist you are. If those strings aren’t in tune you’re just not going to play beautiful music. Harmonic Alignment is a technology to help you tune your strings, to help you tune your life.

When we get those energy interrupters out of the way, we unlock a whole new level of potential for us to realize our magnificence, our divinity, our unlimited potential and ultimately create life on a whole new different level and really play the game at a higher level. That’s through the evolution process. So, it’s really a great technology to help each and every one of us play more beautiful music throughout our life experience.

Connie: That is great. I’ve really enjoyed your music, that’s for sure. I honestly listen to it all the time when I’m in my office. It’s just wonderful.

Mark: Thank you. Thank you very much.

Connie: Oh, you’re welcome. Thank you Mark, for talking with us today and I wish you all the best.

Mark: Thank you very much for having me.