Martin Morrison
Martin has mastered the art of self-reinvention through a process of mental programming, and he helps others to do the same.
From overcoming physical and emotional abuse as a young child to having to deal with the feelings of guilt following the death of his abusive father - which took place moments after Martin had threatened him - he has been forced to throw away one dysfunctional version of "Martin" after another and to learn how to start again from scratch.
Thanks to early exposure to meditation practice and a lifelong interest in matters of the mind, particularly relating to how we are mentally programmed from a very young age, Martin has learnt how to use meditation and the mindful state as a gateway for resetting his own mindset.
Despite the ups and downs of his early life - substance abuse, suicidal tendencies, mental illness, etc. - by the age of thirty, he was a t-total, non-smoking, clean-living exercise fiend with a home of his own, a new career in advertising and a fiancé. Children and marriage followed, so did divorce, and soon after, his career flatlined.
During his thirties, an idea had started to germinate in his mind. Martin wanted to deliver a new kind of workshop that combined his knowledge of meditation and mindfulness with years of martial arts training.
As a teen, he'd developed a passion for martial arts and particularly performance art using traditional Eastern weapons. His approach to weapons training was completely different to that of his peers and this showed in what he was able to achieve.
Rather than trying to inflict his will upon whatever prop he was handling, Martin engaged in a relationship with it, feeling its physical language and intuiting how it "wanted" to move. In many ways, what he was discovering was the truth of Taoism and a way of showing this truth to others without having to resort to mystical language.
Martin believed he had discovered a unique approach for helping people understand how they were engaging with their world and how they could interact with others more effectively. But he wondered whether others would take his ideas seriously.
By that time, he was already copywriting for people to supplement his advertising income, but his vision was to be able to stand on his own two feet as a self-employed individual; writing, delivering mindfulness training and one-to-one coaching. What was holding him back?
He got the answer to that question when a very spiritual person, whom he loved and respected, said to him, "Martin, I don't think your father ever told you he loved you."
With those words, his whole being was flooded with such an intense emotional response that he knew he had been shown the truth, and now it was obvious: he had been hating himself for decades.
The child who had been told that he was the "world's worst" and would amount to nothing, who had been beaten and treated in a completely different way than his six other siblings, was still around, alive and kicking, within Martin's subconscious, and it was telling him that he was worthless and unlovable. He had to figure out how to reprogram his deep mind.
Change did not happen overnight. He had bills to pay, children to feed and the economy was still on its knees after the banking crisis. The turning point came in 2014, when he delivered his first "Creative Kobudo / Moving Mindfulness" workshop to a group of employees at a local business. Not only did they love the experience, but they also understood the deeper message.
It wasn't long before Martin found himself working with children in primary and secondary schools, but it wasn't until he was booked to work with severely mentally ill patients from the secure unit of a hospital, that he really believed he had arrived. His own ideas, which he had developed as a child, were being taken seriously by people with letters after their names. Not bad for a university dropout.
The last five years have not been plain sailing by any stretch of the imagination. He has had to take risks, overcome fear, dig deep and persevere, but he has made his vision into a reality.
These days, Martin ghostwrites and edits for other speakers and entrepreneurs, still delivers mindfulness-based training to schools and other organisations, has one-to-one coaching clients, and he is a radio presenter with his own weekly, two-hour interview show.
His talks cover a range of mindset-related topics:
- Understanding diabetes: from type-2 diabetes to full-contact kickboxing victory in six months
- Tactics for generating luck
- How to get paid for being you
- Understanding mind, mindset and mental programming
- Cause and effect: how the smallest decisions can lead to the greatest outcomes
- Overcoming child abuse
Martin has mastered the art of self-reinvention through a process of mental programming, and he helps others to do the same.
From overcoming physical and emotional abuse as a young child to having to deal with the feelings of guilt following the death of his abusive father - which took place moments after Martin had threatened him - he has been forced to throw away one dysfunctional version of "Martin" after another and to learn how to start again from scratch.
Thanks to early exposure to meditation practice and a lifelong interest in matters of the mind, particularly relating to how we are mentally programmed from a very young age, Martin has learnt how to use meditation and the mindful state as a gateway for resetting his own mindset.
Despite the ups and downs of his early life - substance abuse, suicidal tendencies, mental illness, etc. - by the age of thirty, he was a t-total, non-smoking, clean-living exercise fiend with a home of his own, a new career in advertising and a fiancé. Children and marriage followed, so did divorce, and soon after, his career flatlined.
During his thirties, an idea had started to germinate in his mind. Martin wanted to deliver a new kind of workshop that combined his knowledge of meditation and mindfulness with years of martial arts training.
As a teen, he'd developed a passion for martial arts and particularly performance art using traditional Eastern weapons. His approach to weapons training was completely different to that of his peers and this showed in what he was able to achieve.
Rather than trying to inflict his will upon whatever prop he was handling, Martin engaged in a relationship with it, feeling its physical language and intuiting how it "wanted" to move. In many ways, what he was discovering was the truth of Taoism and a way of showing this truth to others without having to resort to mystical language.
Martin believed he had discovered a unique approach for helping people understand how they were engaging with their world and how they could interact with others more effectively. But he wondered whether others would take his ideas seriously.
By that time, he was already copywriting for people to supplement his advertising income, but his vision was to be able to stand on his own two feet as a self-employed individual; writing, delivering mindfulness training and one-to-one coaching. What was holding him back?
He got the answer to that question when a very spiritual person, whom he loved and respected, said to him, "Martin, I don't think your father ever told you he loved you."
With those words, his whole being was flooded with such an intense emotional response that he knew he had been shown the truth, and now it was obvious: he had been hating himself for decades.
The child who had been told that he was the "world's worst" and would amount to nothing, who had been beaten and treated in a completely different way than his six other siblings, was still around, alive and kicking, within Martin's subconscious, and it was telling him that he was worthless and unlovable. He had to figure out how to reprogram his deep mind.
Change did not happen overnight. He had bills to pay, children to feed and the economy was still on its knees after the banking crisis. The turning point came in 2014, when he delivered his first "Creative Kobudo / Moving Mindfulness" workshop to a group of employees at a local business. Not only did they love the experience, but they also understood the deeper message.
It wasn't long before Martin found himself working with children in primary and secondary schools, but it wasn't until he was booked to work with severely mentally ill patients from the secure unit of a hospital, that he really believed he had arrived. His own ideas, which he had developed as a child, were being taken seriously by people with letters after their names. Not bad for a university dropout.
The last five years have not been plain sailing by any stretch of the imagination. He has had to take risks, overcome fear, dig deep and persevere, but he has made his vision into a reality.
These days, Martin ghostwrites and edits for other speakers and entrepreneurs, still delivers mindfulness-based training to schools and other organisations, has one-to-one coaching clients, and he is a radio presenter with his own weekly, two-hour interview show.
His talks cover a range of mindset-related topics:
- Understanding diabetes: from type-2 diabetes to full-contact kickboxing victory in six months
- Tactics for generating luck
- How to get paid for being you
- Understanding mind, mindset and mental programming
- Cause and effect: how the smallest decisions can lead to the greatest outcomes
- Overcoming child abuse
