Taken from the SIGA Success Strategies online magazine.
It might have been his intuition that first guided Jose Silva to recognize the value of the 10 cycles per second alpha brain wave frequency, but he soon found more scientific evidence to support his belief that it is extremely valuable.
Here is what he had to say about it:
Alpha functioning, by Jose Silva
When a person is taught to function at the correct brain frequency, the brain frequency that has been named "alpha" by scientists, the person can use the right brain hemisphere to be healthier, happier, and more successful.
Alpha covers a range between 7 and 14 cycles or Hertz per second - the vibration of the electrical energy of the brain. The center of Alpha would then be 10.5, but it is known as Alpha 10 cycles or Hertz per second.
Another area where this 10 Hertz Alpha is mentioned is in Astronomy. It has been said that the space formed between the earth and the ionosphere forms a resonating cavity pulsing magnetically at 10 Hertz per second. This magnetic pulsing energy is now considered a fundamental universal life producing energy.
In the human brain we find electricity, magnetism and chemistry. Experiments conducted with the 10 Hertz magnetic field has been proven to excite, to stimulate the atomic particles in matter.
When a person has learned to function consciously at a brain frequency of 10 Hertz, that person is in harmony with the universal energy in space.
When a person is in resonance with the universal energy in space, subatomic particles in the person's body chemistry are being stimulated, excited.
This excitation is passed on to the immune system who controls body chemistry, strengthening the immune system.
A person staying in harmony with universal energy for 15 minutes a day is therapeutic and healthy. When this is done it will maintain a person in good health.
When a person is sick, depending on the seriousness of the problem, one, two, and even three 15-minute sessions of mental exercises may be advised for healing.
Using the subconscious consciously
When a person is consciously functioning at 10 Hertz, at that time that person, beside being in resonance with universal energy, strengthening the immune system, that person can also use the information stored in the subconscious consciously.
Each brain hemisphere has a set of senses:
*The left has set of objective, physical, biological senses.
*The right has a set of subjective, spiritual senses.
The objective senses detect information and records it on the left brain hemisphere and records a duplicate in the right brain hemisphere.
The subjective senses sense information and records it on the right brain hemisphere, but no duplicate is transferred to the left brain hemisphere. This indicates that there is bound to be more problem solving information in the right brain than in the left.
People without the Silva Method training cannot use the information stored in the right brain, they consider that information to be in the subconscious.
Those who have learned to function consciously at 10 Hertz call that dimension the inner conscious, and they can use the information stored in the right brain hemisphere because for them it is not subconscious, meaning it is not beyond their reach.
This means that the right brain thinker has more information at his disposal for problem solving. A successful person is one who solves more problems and information is needed in problem solving.
The Silva Method is the instrument that helps humanity to transcend genius intelligence and move into the second phase of human development on this planet.
The Silva Method, Silva Life System and Silva Intuition Training - sharing these is a joy. It's so uplifting and rewarding to see people learn the skills and techniques, apply them in their lives and increase their fulfillment and happiness. I am privileged to work with Silva Graduates in a coaching relationship.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
The following is copied from Nightingale-Conant's Insider Report published June 13, 2013.
Notice "Testimony of Evidence" (near the bottom) which is a report from Gary Chappell, President of NightingaleConant after taking the Silva training.
At the bottom is a short bio of Jose Silva.
With just a little practice anyone can enter a state of mind that improves human capability... a state of 'heightened awareness,' where anything is possible!
1. The Power of the Imagination The autonomic nervous system controls your pulse and your glands. But your imagination can also take control... you can choose what you will think about. And what you think about can change your physical body.
Imagination can cause you to age faster... or age more slowly... it can cause an ulcer... or heal an ulcer. Medical case histories are filled with stories of people who were literally scared to death. What would a coroner write on such a death report—"cause of death: imagination"?
Here is an interactive example of the power of the human mind: First, suspend your natural disbelief, just for a minute, while you try this exercise. It's easy and everyone can, do it. It will only take a few seconds.
First relax and take a deep breath and clear your mind; now use your imagination and try to clearly picture this in as much detail as possible:
You have a bright yellow, ripe lemon in the palm of your hand. Rub the skin of the fruit with your hands. Feel the texture. Smell it. Now pick up a sharp knife and slice slowly through the lemon. Juice squirts and runs out of the lemon onto your hand. Put a drop of juice on your finger and touch it to your tongue. Is it terribly sour?
For most people, just a simple little exercise like this will cause their mouth to water.
Doctors will tell you that mouth-watering is an involuntary reflex of the autonomic nervous system. Or, to put that in layman's terms, you can't physically control it. However, you can use your imagination to think of lemons... and that will do the trick.
Does it make you wonder... what else can the imagination control? It is vastly more powerful than most people realize.
We've all had the experience of preparing for something important; maybe a big speech, maybe calling a potential employer, client, or even a first date, when simply "imagining" what would happen caused our hearts to race and our palms to sweat.
We have known for a long time how powerful the imagination can be, but until recently few have dared to study it. Today, however, scientists in many health disciplines are looking into "relaxation and visualization" techniques. (The word "imagination" is more accurate than "visualization" because the most powerful visualization techniques, like the Silva Method, involve all of the senses, not just the "visual.")
2. How a Father's Love Led to this Brainpower Breakthrough Forty years ago, when José Silva began his groundbreaking research in this field, scientists would have laughed at the very idea of studying the imagination. Because José Silva had no formal educational training, he simply didn't know any better. Like the famous Wright brothers, his research was driven by passion, not by educational background.
A self-taught electronics expert, Silva was a pioneer in developing antenna systems in the early days of television. His vision and entrepreneurial spirit turned a small radio repair shop into a large, thriving electronics business.
His entry into the field of mind development started at first as an offshoot of his natural curiosity. While his days were filled with electronics, his nights were devoted to books on the subjects of psychology, hypnosis, and The "Success" Frequency parapsychology.
Then one day, a "lucky" misfortune occurred in the Silva household: His children brought home "F's" on their report cards from school.
In those days it was thought that I.Q. was something you were born with. Like eye color, you couldn't change it. José worried, as any parent would, that bad grades and other failures might become his children's lot in life. He decided to turn his full attention to helping them do better.
The question "Could it be possible to raise one's I.Q.?" started José on his historic quest into mind research.
He knew from his work with electronics that the ideal circuit was one with least resistance. If brain cells acted somehow like circuits, he reasoned, would it be possible to lower their resistance and thus make them more receptive to storing and receiving information?
Would the brain function more effectively if he could slow down the brain waves?
Using hypnosis techniques to quiet his children's minds, José Silva discovered that at lower brain-wave frequencies the brain did indeed receive and store more information. Under hypnosis, his children could remember fantastic amounts of information, such as dates, names, numbers, and other facts.
However, while hypnosis helped his children remember more, it did not contribute to better understanding. That problem is what led him to develop his famous mental training exercises.
His first sign of proof that this new system was working, much to his delight, was in his children's sharply improved grades.
We know today that José Silva's initial mind-development experiments were a landmark in the study of human consciousness.
He was the first person to prove that people can learn to function with awareness at the alpha and theta brain-wave frequencies. The medical and psychological establishments have since confirmed this finding with numerous experiments, of which biofeedback technology has been one of the most useful outcomes.
Other parents in Silva's neighborhood took notice of the Silva children's great improvements at school and asked José if he could teach their children. He accepted, and over the next 10 years of working with children, José developed what would become the basics of Silva Method training.
3. Alpha Levels and the Development of ESP A strange thing happened one evening at the Silva house. It was a normal week night, and José was working with his daughter Isabel on her schoolwork. She had relaxed and used her training to go into her alpha brain-wave level so that her father could begin quizzing her on her lessons. Suddenly, and quietly, the routine was momentously changed. As José formed a question in his mind, Isabel answered it. It was a question he had not yet spoken! Then she answered another, and another.
Could his daughter's brain, while in a relaxed state, somehow gain the power to act as a receiver of his thoughts? Did the brain have the equivalent of electronic components that were able to act as transmitters and receptors? It was the beginning of a period of experimentation and learning with alpha levels of consciousness that continues even to this day.
One of the most interesting of these studies came several years ago at the Stanford Research Institute in California. The research was called "The Distant Viewing Project." Two groups of volunteers who had experienced Silva Method training were chosen—one group in New York and the other in California. The West Coast group was given pads of paper and pencils, and without prior information, they were asked to make a sketch of what the New York volunteers were seeing at given moments. Meanwhile, the New York volunteers took Polaroid pictures and marked each one with a time and a date.
The drawings were later compared with the photos by an unbiased third group and judged either as a "hit" or a "miss."
Would you like to guess the percentage of drawings that contained hits? Your guess might be higher than it would have been before you started reading this report. But few people ever guess as high as the actual "hit ratio"... the Stanford Research Institute reported an 80 percent success ratio!
How were the volunteers in California communicating with the test subjects in New York? Were they communicating on a spiritual level? Or were they receiving what some researchers have called "psychotronic energy"?
Only through your own beliefs and experiences can you answer that question for yourself.
4. Using the Imagination to Control Outside Influences
Now that you understand a little about how the Silva Method was developed, let's return to an earlier question. Can your imagination control influences from outside the body? Many researchers at major medical centers believe it can. Many Silva alumni can tell you of their own successes.
A Silva Method Seminar graduate (Mike D., Chesterton, IN) used his training to control his allergies. He had suffered the effects of hayfever throughout his childhood and into his thirties. Anyone with an allergy knows that pollen and other allergens can be powerful outside influences!
After his Silva Method training, it seemed quite reasonable to him that if other people without hayfever could ignore the irritation of pollen, then so could he! He simply decided that he was tired of the swollen, itchy eyes, the asthma, and worst of all, the uncontrollable runny nose and sinus congestion. Using his training, he was able to imagine the symptoms away. And now late summer is his favorite time of the year!
Unbelievable! But you already know that you can make your saliva glands flow, heart race, and sweat glands open. You know that great actors can make their tear ducts cry on command. The glands that cause a runny nose are just as easy to control, if you know how.
Many of the relaxation and visualization techniques that are used in hospitals across America today are watered-down versions of the Silva Method. Doctors tend to teach only the most basic of these techniques over a one- or two- hour period. Instruction in the basic Silva Method Course spans two to four days; the audio version includes six hours of listening and at least twice that much time in recommended practice.
The Silva Method alpha-level training is a skill like any other—the more you practice, the better you get! In the audio program, you'll find plans for a 40-day self-training course that will help you form powerful healing abilities, as well as creative, intuitive, and clairvoyant skills.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have used imagination techniques, similar to the Silva Method, to help children with asthma. And they've had outstanding success. They've shown that children can use these techniques to reverse the swelling of bronchial passages that can choke off their air supply, regardless of whether the asthma attack was brought on by stress or an outside influence—an allergen like pollen, dust, or pet hair.
Relaxation and visualization in conjunction with the care of a licensed physician has been tried successfully with heart disease, cancer, and a myriad of other diseases. Although some 40 years behind José Silva, medical science is discovering that healing can't take place without self-healing. Attaining the alpha level is the most powerful way to promote self-healing.
5. Imagination: A Right-Brain Activity It was Albert Einstein who said that most people use only 10 percent of their mental capacities. By implication he was saying that his brain was no different from anyone else's, that he had only learned to use more of it than other people. Our brains function as two halves, a Right Brain and a Left Brain—two brains with two very different functions and points of view. One of the most exciting things you'll find in your alpha level is the ability to listen to your Right Brain.
In normal waking consciousness, the Left Brain rules. It is logic, it is ego, it is the little voice inside your head that nags you and tells you that you can't possibly do this. The Left Brain helps you remember to balance your checkbook, brush your teeth, and take out the garbage.
It's the timekeeper. It is also your primary mode of functioning on a daily basis at work. It likes to understand the world one thing at a time in a proper order, using deductive reasoning. The Left Brain "can't see the forest for the trees."
The Right Brain, on the other hand, thinks globally. It is creative, intuitive, and instinctive. It is ruled by feelings and sensations. It understands everything all at once, in inexplicable leaps of faith.
The Right Brain allows baseball players to catch a fly ball without sitting down with a pencil to figure out force, trajectory, and wind speed. Outfielders see the bat hit the ball, and without stopping to think, they intuitively start running to the spot where it is going to fall.
If you ask great musicians to look at their fingers while they are playing, the music will invariably stop. At its best, music flows freely from the Right Brain. Great musicians learn how to put their Left Brains on hold while they play freely from their emotional Right Brain.
As you learn through The Silva Method how to go to your alpha level and work on a problem in your imagination, you will begin to discover the power of the Right Brain. Stress drifts away; time disappears; worry, negativity, and doubts are abandoned.
You enter a waking dream where everything is possible and you are in complete control. You feel intuitively what is right and wrong, and solutions to problems simply come to you.
This is precisely the way the world's most famous geniuses have described their own inspirations. Newton described how the theory of gravity came to him while resting under a tree. Max Planck, who invented the quantum theory of physics, said the theory just popped into his head while resting in a hot bath. Einstein liked to work on problems as he awoke from his afternoon naps.
Perhaps this ability to think clearly while experiencing a deep state of relaxation is what has separated geniuses from the rest us. But now, thanks to the work of José Silva, anyone can learn to do this!
If you had been Right-Brain educated, in addition to learning history and math, you would have done less passive learning and more experiential learning. You would have had classes like "Basic Creative Imagination" and "Enhancing Intuition, Instinct, and Inspiration." Both students and teachers would have talked less and done more.
You'd have studied telepathy, psychometry, and all sorts of other Right-Brain sensing experiences. Unfortunately, that is a whole realm of human potential that is left unstudied and unlearned.
6. Reprogramming Your Mind to Change Your Life
Psychologists say that the harder you try to break a habit, the more certain it is that you will fail! This seems paradoxical, and yet most of us have had this experience. What you think about generally becomes your reality. If you are constantly thinking about your bad habit, it will never leave your mind; it will never go away.
For the most part, people are very good at negative self-programming. Do you do this? When you get home from work, you plop down in an easy chair, take a deep breath, settle into a comfortable state of mind, and then start thinking about everything that went wrong during the day. If you go over in your mind everything that has gone wrong and everything that can go wrong, then what are you creating? You are reinforcing your troubles, deepening your problems, and prolonging your difficulties.
Parents, teachers, clergy, doctors, and bosses are very good at correcting what we do wrong. Few ever show us what is right. We internalize this type of teaching and use it on ourselves.
Now that you understand this, you're going to stop thinking about your problems and start thinking about solutions, right? If only it were that easy for you. The bad news is that you are programmed to think the way you already do.
The good news is that the alpha level is where basic programming can be developed for your mind. It is like the DOS, or system level, in a computer.
A good hypnotist can bring you to an alpha level and give you mental programs to follow. In a Las Vegas act, you can be asked to walk like a chicken—and you will! In therapy, a hypnotist can help you break habits, like smoking. But the strength of hypnotism is always limited by the willpower of the participant. No hypnotist can make you stop smoking if you don't truly want to stop.
By using a Silva Method technique called "The Mirror of the Mind," you can learn how to consciously enter your "programming level" and examine your own will, reason with yourself, come to understand yourself better, and change your mind forever!
No other system is more powerful for helping you:
lose weight
quit smoking
stop procrastinating
change eating habits
stop abusing alcohol or other drugs
break negative emotional patterns and
create new patterns for success
Nightingale Conant has "bottled" the life-transforming Silva workshop into an easy-to-use audio program.
Now, teaching you to use more of your brain is really what The Silva Method audio self-study course is all about.
Because no other system gives you the tools to control your mental programming and your own destiny like The Silva Method.
Whatever you do, you'll do better, because you have awakened the genius within you! With The Silva Method, you'll believe that you have finally found the "User's Manual" that never came with your own amazing human brain.
The Silva Method is simply a skill that allows you to take control of your own mind... and the human mind is the most powerful force on earth.
In taking conscious control, you have the key that opens up every other possibility in your life!
The Silva Method audio program teaches you the skill of mind control at the alpha level-a process that is simple, sequential, and as natural as resting in an easy chair. Once you have learned it, and gained full control of this mental ability, you'll find that the new power you control will be... mind-boggling.
After listening to just the first three sessions, you'll already have learned how to enter the alpha level. You'll be surprised at how easy it is to do. Laura Silva, a veteran Silva trainer and José's daughter, and Robert B. Stone will be your guide, leading you step-by-step through all of the programming sessions.
When you start your Silva training, you can decide what areas interest you most.
Whether you want to:
improve your I.Q. and memory,
develop your creativity and intuition,
work on healing and self-healing techniques,
program yourself to break habits,
or practice success skills,
you'll discover that The Silva Method is a tool for total mind development!
You'll also find that The Silva Method is incredibly relaxing and refreshing. Every Silva session is like the perfect cat nap! You come out of the alpha level feeling more energetic and more focused for whatever the rest of your day brings you.
For most Silva graduates, the stress-relieving benefits of the Silva Method alone are worth the effort of learning it and practicing it on a daily basis.
And because the mind is such a powerful tool to develop you'll have your own amazing experiences in your alpha level. Anyone who has taken this course can tell you stories that simply defy explanation. Once you learn to tap the power of your mind, you'll discover hidden talents that are, frankly, difficult to explain.
7. Testimony of Evidence A special message from our President
Dear Enlightened Skeptic,
When I first heard about the Silva Method, I was skeptical. I expect you may be too. After all, there are some pretty amazing findings in the report above: enhanced creativity, IQ, clairvoyance, healing, self-control... that's a lot to believe.
My role here at Nightingale-Conant used to include screening new product ideas. So, I was given the opportunity to attend a Silva Method Seminar—just one of the perks of the greatest job on earth!
I attend dozens of workshops and seminars each year, but very few ever become Nightingale-Conant audio programs. I hear so many "pitches" for new products that I'm probably even more skeptical than you are.
Before I believe anything, I expect people to prove it to ME!
My experiences in the Silva Method Seminar did just that. In fact, the seminar shattered many of my preconceptions about the human mind. Frankly, I was "blown away" by what I myself accomplished in this training program. One exercise in particular proved to me the existence of ESP, not just because I did it successfully but because everyone else in the workshop did, too!
Briefly, this is what happened: I was given the names of three people to envision and told that they had a physical ailment. I was not told their age or what the ailment was... it could have been anything from an allergy to a brain tumor. I had to pinpoint the ailment using only my mind. As I was trained to do, I relaxed into my "alpha level" and went to my "imaginary workshop" (two Silva techniques), and I tried to imagine these people one at a time. A "vision" came to me about the first person on my list, and I found myself saying aloud, "He has migraine headaches." I was exactly right, and I went on to correctly name the next two as well! Our class was 83% right in this exercise.
This exercise is not just a "parlor trick" because the Silva Method teaches you to send these people "healing energy." You learn to use this technique to help yourself and others. From personal experience, I've come to believe it works.
Now, it's my turn to show you. I'm so confident in the power of the Silva Method that I believe it is should be in your library of life-changing programs. Please accept my offer to try the audio program The Silva Method at a discounted price. I want you to have an opportunity similar to the one I was given: the chance to experience this remarkable experience for yourself.
Warmest regards,
Gary Chappell
President, Nightingale Conant
8. Biography — José Silva
The name José Silva has become a byword in the mind-development field. In 1944, he began his seminal research into what has subsequently become the Silva Method. His discoveries regarding the potential of the human mind have had untold influence on millions of people worldwide.
Though he never attended school a day in his life, this self-educated man set out on an odyssey of scientific research that led him to become, without diplomas or certificates, one of the most creative scholars of his age. He was director of five corporations and the holder of several patents.
José Silva was an active Silva trainer, bestselling author, and respected scientist and biofeedback authority. His techniques, based on his breakthrough discoveries regarding human intelligence and the alpha frequencies of the brain, are being taught in 29 languages in 103 countries around the world.
The Silva Method has been accepted by countless educators, students, and business professionals. It remains a source of study and examination by world leaders in many fields for the growth of humankind.
Notice "Testimony of Evidence" (near the bottom) which is a report from Gary Chappell, President of NightingaleConant after taking the Silva training.
At the bottom is a short bio of Jose Silva.
With just a little practice anyone can enter a state of mind that improves human capability... a state of 'heightened awareness,' where anything is possible!
1. The Power of the Imagination The autonomic nervous system controls your pulse and your glands. But your imagination can also take control... you can choose what you will think about. And what you think about can change your physical body.
Imagination can cause you to age faster... or age more slowly... it can cause an ulcer... or heal an ulcer. Medical case histories are filled with stories of people who were literally scared to death. What would a coroner write on such a death report—"cause of death: imagination"?
Here is an interactive example of the power of the human mind: First, suspend your natural disbelief, just for a minute, while you try this exercise. It's easy and everyone can, do it. It will only take a few seconds.
First relax and take a deep breath and clear your mind; now use your imagination and try to clearly picture this in as much detail as possible:
You have a bright yellow, ripe lemon in the palm of your hand. Rub the skin of the fruit with your hands. Feel the texture. Smell it. Now pick up a sharp knife and slice slowly through the lemon. Juice squirts and runs out of the lemon onto your hand. Put a drop of juice on your finger and touch it to your tongue. Is it terribly sour?
For most people, just a simple little exercise like this will cause their mouth to water.
Doctors will tell you that mouth-watering is an involuntary reflex of the autonomic nervous system. Or, to put that in layman's terms, you can't physically control it. However, you can use your imagination to think of lemons... and that will do the trick.
Does it make you wonder... what else can the imagination control? It is vastly more powerful than most people realize.
We've all had the experience of preparing for something important; maybe a big speech, maybe calling a potential employer, client, or even a first date, when simply "imagining" what would happen caused our hearts to race and our palms to sweat.
But can the imagination control influences
from outside the body? The answer is yes!
We have known for a long time how powerful the imagination can be, but until recently few have dared to study it. Today, however, scientists in many health disciplines are looking into "relaxation and visualization" techniques. (The word "imagination" is more accurate than "visualization" because the most powerful visualization techniques, like the Silva Method, involve all of the senses, not just the "visual.")
2. How a Father's Love Led to this Brainpower Breakthrough Forty years ago, when José Silva began his groundbreaking research in this field, scientists would have laughed at the very idea of studying the imagination. Because José Silva had no formal educational training, he simply didn't know any better. Like the famous Wright brothers, his research was driven by passion, not by educational background.
A self-taught electronics expert, Silva was a pioneer in developing antenna systems in the early days of television. His vision and entrepreneurial spirit turned a small radio repair shop into a large, thriving electronics business.
His entry into the field of mind development started at first as an offshoot of his natural curiosity. While his days were filled with electronics, his nights were devoted to books on the subjects of psychology, hypnosis, and The "Success" Frequency parapsychology.
Then one day, a "lucky" misfortune occurred in the Silva household: His children brought home "F's" on their report cards from school.
In those days it was thought that I.Q. was something you were born with. Like eye color, you couldn't change it. José worried, as any parent would, that bad grades and other failures might become his children's lot in life. He decided to turn his full attention to helping them do better.
The question "Could it be possible to raise one's I.Q.?" started José on his historic quest into mind research.
He knew from his work with electronics that the ideal circuit was one with least resistance. If brain cells acted somehow like circuits, he reasoned, would it be possible to lower their resistance and thus make them more receptive to storing and receiving information?
Would the brain function more effectively if he could slow down the brain waves?
Using hypnosis techniques to quiet his children's minds, José Silva discovered that at lower brain-wave frequencies the brain did indeed receive and store more information. Under hypnosis, his children could remember fantastic amounts of information, such as dates, names, numbers, and other facts.
However, while hypnosis helped his children remember more, it did not contribute to better understanding. That problem is what led him to develop his famous mental training exercises.
He created specific exercises that his children could use to quiet their minds and lower their brain rhythms. They could do this without losing consciousness (as in sleep),
and without losing conscious control (as in hypnosis).
His first sign of proof that this new system was working, much to his delight, was in his children's sharply improved grades.
We know today that José Silva's initial mind-development experiments were a landmark in the study of human consciousness.
He was the first person to prove that people can learn to function with awareness at the alpha and theta brain-wave frequencies. The medical and psychological establishments have since confirmed this finding with numerous experiments, of which biofeedback technology has been one of the most useful outcomes.
Other parents in Silva's neighborhood took notice of the Silva children's great improvements at school and asked José if he could teach their children. He accepted, and over the next 10 years of working with children, José developed what would become the basics of Silva Method training.
3. Alpha Levels and the Development of ESP A strange thing happened one evening at the Silva house. It was a normal week night, and José was working with his daughter Isabel on her schoolwork. She had relaxed and used her training to go into her alpha brain-wave level so that her father could begin quizzing her on her lessons. Suddenly, and quietly, the routine was momentously changed. As José formed a question in his mind, Isabel answered it. It was a question he had not yet spoken! Then she answered another, and another.
She was reading his mind!
Could his daughter's brain, while in a relaxed state, somehow gain the power to act as a receiver of his thoughts? Did the brain have the equivalent of electronic components that were able to act as transmitters and receptors? It was the beginning of a period of experimentation and learning with alpha levels of consciousness that continues even to this day.
One of the most interesting of these studies came several years ago at the Stanford Research Institute in California. The research was called "The Distant Viewing Project." Two groups of volunteers who had experienced Silva Method training were chosen—one group in New York and the other in California. The West Coast group was given pads of paper and pencils, and without prior information, they were asked to make a sketch of what the New York volunteers were seeing at given moments. Meanwhile, the New York volunteers took Polaroid pictures and marked each one with a time and a date.
The drawings were later compared with the photos by an unbiased third group and judged either as a "hit" or a "miss."
Would you like to guess the percentage of drawings that contained hits? Your guess might be higher than it would have been before you started reading this report. But few people ever guess as high as the actual "hit ratio"... the Stanford Research Institute reported an 80 percent success ratio!
How were the volunteers in California communicating with the test subjects in New York? Were they communicating on a spiritual level? Or were they receiving what some researchers have called "psychotronic energy"?
Only through your own beliefs and experiences can you answer that question for yourself.
4. Using the Imagination to Control Outside Influences
Now that you understand a little about how the Silva Method was developed, let's return to an earlier question. Can your imagination control influences from outside the body? Many researchers at major medical centers believe it can. Many Silva alumni can tell you of their own successes.
A Silva Method Seminar graduate (Mike D., Chesterton, IN) used his training to control his allergies. He had suffered the effects of hayfever throughout his childhood and into his thirties. Anyone with an allergy knows that pollen and other allergens can be powerful outside influences!
After his Silva Method training, it seemed quite reasonable to him that if other people without hayfever could ignore the irritation of pollen, then so could he! He simply decided that he was tired of the swollen, itchy eyes, the asthma, and worst of all, the uncontrollable runny nose and sinus congestion. Using his training, he was able to imagine the symptoms away. And now late summer is his favorite time of the year!
Unbelievable! But you already know that you can make your saliva glands flow, heart race, and sweat glands open. You know that great actors can make their tear ducts cry on command. The glands that cause a runny nose are just as easy to control, if you know how.
Many of the relaxation and visualization techniques that are used in hospitals across America today are watered-down versions of the Silva Method. Doctors tend to teach only the most basic of these techniques over a one- or two- hour period. Instruction in the basic Silva Method Course spans two to four days; the audio version includes six hours of listening and at least twice that much time in recommended practice.
The Silva Method alpha-level training is a skill like any other—the more you practice, the better you get! In the audio program, you'll find plans for a 40-day self-training course that will help you form powerful healing abilities, as well as creative, intuitive, and clairvoyant skills.
Understand that relaxation and visualization techniques
are on the cutting edge of medical research today.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have used imagination techniques, similar to the Silva Method, to help children with asthma. And they've had outstanding success. They've shown that children can use these techniques to reverse the swelling of bronchial passages that can choke off their air supply, regardless of whether the asthma attack was brought on by stress or an outside influence—an allergen like pollen, dust, or pet hair.
Relaxation and visualization in conjunction with the care of a licensed physician has been tried successfully with heart disease, cancer, and a myriad of other diseases. Although some 40 years behind José Silva, medical science is discovering that healing can't take place without self-healing. Attaining the alpha level is the most powerful way to promote self-healing.
5. Imagination: A Right-Brain Activity It was Albert Einstein who said that most people use only 10 percent of their mental capacities. By implication he was saying that his brain was no different from anyone else's, that he had only learned to use more of it than other people. Our brains function as two halves, a Right Brain and a Left Brain—two brains with two very different functions and points of view. One of the most exciting things you'll find in your alpha level is the ability to listen to your Right Brain.
In normal waking consciousness, the Left Brain rules. It is logic, it is ego, it is the little voice inside your head that nags you and tells you that you can't possibly do this. The Left Brain helps you remember to balance your checkbook, brush your teeth, and take out the garbage.
It's the timekeeper. It is also your primary mode of functioning on a daily basis at work. It likes to understand the world one thing at a time in a proper order, using deductive reasoning. The Left Brain "can't see the forest for the trees."
The Right Brain, on the other hand, thinks globally. It is creative, intuitive, and instinctive. It is ruled by feelings and sensations. It understands everything all at once, in inexplicable leaps of faith.
The Right Brain allows baseball players to catch a fly ball without sitting down with a pencil to figure out force, trajectory, and wind speed. Outfielders see the bat hit the ball, and without stopping to think, they intuitively start running to the spot where it is going to fall.
If you ask great musicians to look at their fingers while they are playing, the music will invariably stop. At its best, music flows freely from the Right Brain. Great musicians learn how to put their Left Brains on hold while they play freely from their emotional Right Brain.
As you learn through The Silva Method how to go to your alpha level and work on a problem in your imagination, you will begin to discover the power of the Right Brain. Stress drifts away; time disappears; worry, negativity, and doubts are abandoned.
You enter a waking dream where everything is possible and you are in complete control. You feel intuitively what is right and wrong, and solutions to problems simply come to you.
This is precisely the way the world's most famous geniuses have described their own inspirations. Newton described how the theory of gravity came to him while resting under a tree. Max Planck, who invented the quantum theory of physics, said the theory just popped into his head while resting in a hot bath. Einstein liked to work on problems as he awoke from his afternoon naps.
Perhaps this ability to think clearly while experiencing a deep state of relaxation is what has separated geniuses from the rest us. But now, thanks to the work of José Silva, anyone can learn to do this!
If you had been Right-Brain educated, in addition to learning history and math, you would have done less passive learning and more experiential learning. You would have had classes like "Basic Creative Imagination" and "Enhancing Intuition, Instinct, and Inspiration." Both students and teachers would have talked less and done more.
You'd have studied telepathy, psychometry, and all sorts of other Right-Brain sensing experiences. Unfortunately, that is a whole realm of human potential that is left unstudied and unlearned.
The Silva Method gives you the training you
need to begin restoring your lost,
but not
forgotten, God-given powers of imagination.
6. Reprogramming Your Mind to Change Your Life
Psychologists say that the harder you try to break a habit, the more certain it is that you will fail! This seems paradoxical, and yet most of us have had this experience. What you think about generally becomes your reality. If you are constantly thinking about your bad habit, it will never leave your mind; it will never go away.
For the most part, people are very good at negative self-programming. Do you do this? When you get home from work, you plop down in an easy chair, take a deep breath, settle into a comfortable state of mind, and then start thinking about everything that went wrong during the day. If you go over in your mind everything that has gone wrong and everything that can go wrong, then what are you creating? You are reinforcing your troubles, deepening your problems, and prolonging your difficulties.
Parents, teachers, clergy, doctors, and bosses are very good at correcting what we do wrong. Few ever show us what is right. We internalize this type of teaching and use it on ourselves.
You can learn to break lifelong
habits, almost effortlessly!
Now that you understand this, you're going to stop thinking about your problems and start thinking about solutions, right? If only it were that easy for you. The bad news is that you are programmed to think the way you already do.
The good news is that the alpha level is where basic programming can be developed for your mind. It is like the DOS, or system level, in a computer.
A good hypnotist can bring you to an alpha level and give you mental programs to follow. In a Las Vegas act, you can be asked to walk like a chicken—and you will! In therapy, a hypnotist can help you break habits, like smoking. But the strength of hypnotism is always limited by the willpower of the participant. No hypnotist can make you stop smoking if you don't truly want to stop.
There's an axiom in psychology that says when
the will and the imagination are in conflict,
the imagination always wins.
By using a Silva Method technique called "The Mirror of the Mind," you can learn how to consciously enter your "programming level" and examine your own will, reason with yourself, come to understand yourself better, and change your mind forever!
No other system is more powerful for helping you:
lose weight
quit smoking
stop procrastinating
change eating habits
stop abusing alcohol or other drugs
break negative emotional patterns and
create new patterns for success
Nightingale Conant has "bottled" the life-transforming Silva workshop into an easy-to-use audio program.
Now, teaching you to use more of your brain is really what The Silva Method audio self-study course is all about.
Because no other system gives you the tools to control your mental programming and your own destiny like The Silva Method.
Whatever you do, you'll do better, because you have awakened the genius within you! With The Silva Method, you'll believe that you have finally found the "User's Manual" that never came with your own amazing human brain.
The Silva Method is simply a skill that allows you to take control of your own mind... and the human mind is the most powerful force on earth.
In taking conscious control, you have the key that opens up every other possibility in your life!
The Silva Method audio program teaches you the skill of mind control at the alpha level-a process that is simple, sequential, and as natural as resting in an easy chair. Once you have learned it, and gained full control of this mental ability, you'll find that the new power you control will be... mind-boggling.
After listening to just the first three sessions, you'll already have learned how to enter the alpha level. You'll be surprised at how easy it is to do. Laura Silva, a veteran Silva trainer and José's daughter, and Robert B. Stone will be your guide, leading you step-by-step through all of the programming sessions.
When you start your Silva training, you can decide what areas interest you most.
Whether you want to:
improve your I.Q. and memory,
develop your creativity and intuition,
work on healing and self-healing techniques,
program yourself to break habits,
or practice success skills,
you'll discover that The Silva Method is a tool for total mind development!
You'll also find that The Silva Method is incredibly relaxing and refreshing. Every Silva session is like the perfect cat nap! You come out of the alpha level feeling more energetic and more focused for whatever the rest of your day brings you.
For most Silva graduates, the stress-relieving benefits of the Silva Method alone are worth the effort of learning it and practicing it on a daily basis.
And because the mind is such a powerful tool to develop you'll have your own amazing experiences in your alpha level. Anyone who has taken this course can tell you stories that simply defy explanation. Once you learn to tap the power of your mind, you'll discover hidden talents that are, frankly, difficult to explain.
7. Testimony of Evidence A special message from our President
Dear Enlightened Skeptic,
When I first heard about the Silva Method, I was skeptical. I expect you may be too. After all, there are some pretty amazing findings in the report above: enhanced creativity, IQ, clairvoyance, healing, self-control... that's a lot to believe.
My role here at Nightingale-Conant used to include screening new product ideas. So, I was given the opportunity to attend a Silva Method Seminar—just one of the perks of the greatest job on earth!
I attend dozens of workshops and seminars each year, but very few ever become Nightingale-Conant audio programs. I hear so many "pitches" for new products that I'm probably even more skeptical than you are.
Before I believe anything, I expect people to prove it to ME!
My experiences in the Silva Method Seminar did just that. In fact, the seminar shattered many of my preconceptions about the human mind. Frankly, I was "blown away" by what I myself accomplished in this training program. One exercise in particular proved to me the existence of ESP, not just because I did it successfully but because everyone else in the workshop did, too!
Briefly, this is what happened: I was given the names of three people to envision and told that they had a physical ailment. I was not told their age or what the ailment was... it could have been anything from an allergy to a brain tumor. I had to pinpoint the ailment using only my mind. As I was trained to do, I relaxed into my "alpha level" and went to my "imaginary workshop" (two Silva techniques), and I tried to imagine these people one at a time. A "vision" came to me about the first person on my list, and I found myself saying aloud, "He has migraine headaches." I was exactly right, and I went on to correctly name the next two as well! Our class was 83% right in this exercise.
This exercise is not just a "parlor trick" because the Silva Method teaches you to send these people "healing energy." You learn to use this technique to help yourself and others. From personal experience, I've come to believe it works.
Now, it's my turn to show you. I'm so confident in the power of the Silva Method that I believe it is should be in your library of life-changing programs. Please accept my offer to try the audio program The Silva Method at a discounted price. I want you to have an opportunity similar to the one I was given: the chance to experience this remarkable experience for yourself.
Warmest regards,
Gary Chappell
President, Nightingale Conant
8. Biography — José Silva
The name José Silva has become a byword in the mind-development field. In 1944, he began his seminal research into what has subsequently become the Silva Method. His discoveries regarding the potential of the human mind have had untold influence on millions of people worldwide.
Though he never attended school a day in his life, this self-educated man set out on an odyssey of scientific research that led him to become, without diplomas or certificates, one of the most creative scholars of his age. He was director of five corporations and the holder of several patents.
José Silva was an active Silva trainer, bestselling author, and respected scientist and biofeedback authority. His techniques, based on his breakthrough discoveries regarding human intelligence and the alpha frequencies of the brain, are being taught in 29 languages in 103 countries around the world.
The Silva Method has been accepted by countless educators, students, and business professionals. It remains a source of study and examination by world leaders in many fields for the growth of humankind.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Unique Ways that Human Beings Function
In this article, Jose Silva delves into his research to help us understand the unique ways that human beings function.
by Jose Silva
Here's a short quiz:
Why is your body like a radio?
Because both are communications devices.
Your body radiates energy, called an aura, just as a radio station radiates electromagnetic waves that carry a radio program.
I spent much of my life repairing radios and other electronic equipment. When I began to learn about the human mind and the body's aura, my experience with electronics came in very handy.
It helped me to understand some of the ways that we communicate, ways that most people don't yet fully understand.
Your body is a much more sophisticated communications station than a radio transmitter. You can communicate with:
*Words
*The tone and inflection of your voice
*Your eyes
*Your body language
*Your hands
*Your aura
*Your mind
The first six kinds of communication that we've listed here are limited by time and space. People have to be able to hear you or see you, or be within range of your aura.
The seventh kind of communication - your mind and your psychic ability - has no limits, as far as we know. You can communicate with anyone, anywhere, instantly, with your mind.
There are plenty of books and courses to help you with the first five types of communication.
Now, I want to talk about the other two.
YOUR AURA
The human body radiates seven energy fields. The combined energy fields are called the human aura.
The human aura is modulated by brain activity.
To modulate means to change, to alter in some way.
A radio transmitter transmits a "carrier signal."
The information to be transmitted - the announcer's voice, for instance, or the music being played - is combined with the carrier signal and alters the carrier signal.
The radio that receives this combined signal then strips away the carrier signal and is left with only the information that was added to it.
Your aura is modulated by your brain activity. Your brain is modulated by thoughts. Every thought that you have alters - modulates - your aura.
YOUR AURA PENETRATES AND ALTERS MATTER
The objective part of your aura radiates out about eight meters - about 25 feet - from your body. Anyone within that range can detect your aura.
That's why, when a person who is very upset comes into a room, you can "feel" their presence even before you see them or hear them.
You can influence people around you by your own thoughts. If you are happy and at peace, your aura will reflect this, and will tend to influence other people's auras to be happy and peaceful.
The aura energy penetrates both inanimate and animate matter, causing an alteration in matter.
*Inanimate matter retains the alteration.
*Animate matter continues to evolve in an altered state.
THOUGHT MODULATION
There are several different frequencies that the brain operate on:
*Beta, the outer conscious level, which is ideal for taking action in the physical world.
*Alpha, the inner conscious level (formerly the sub-conscious), the strongest, most rhythmic frequency, ideal for thinking.
*Theta, a lower frequency.
*Delta, associated with deep sleep.
Thinking modulates the brain at various frequencies: the beta brain wave frequencies, and also at the lower alpha brain wave frequencies.
*The energy transmitted when thought modulates the brain at the beta frequency is limited by distance. This energy, a physical energy, can be used either to help or to harm. It can attract animate matter back to normal, or force matter into an abnormal condition.
This is what happens when a psychic bends a spoon: The normal is changed to the abnormal, through the use of the physical part of the body's aura radiation. That's why we don't teach or practice spoon bending in the Silva Method; we prefer to change the abnormal to the normal.
*When thoughts modulate the brain at the alpha frequency, then distance is no barrier. When doing this, you can help, but you cannot harm. You can change the abnormal back to the normal, but you cannot change the normal to the abnormal with this subjective, spiritual (non-physical) energy.
It takes physical energy to cause physical harm, to change the normal to the abnormal. Physical energy works by repulsion.
Spiritual energy cannot exert force against physics. Spiritual energy can only work through attraction. It attracts animate matter to return to a normal condition, to conform to the original spiritual blueprint for that particular object.
The modulation is stronger when thought is accompanied by imagination.
The most effective programming is done when thought, accompanied by imagination, modulates the brain at the alpha level, where there is the most energy, and where distance is no barrier.
EXAMINING THE AURA
The human aura is made up of seven fields of energy:
The first is spiritual, the genetic, which is controlled 99 percent by the "other side," from the
spiritual dimension. The next three: sub-atomic, atomic, and part of the molecular, are controlled from the right brain hemisphere. However, the molecular evolves into the physical, and is partially controlled by the left brain hemisphere.
The final three: cells, organs, and organ systems, are controlled from the left brain hemisphere.
In order to live a normal life, the way God intended, we must learn to control the energy fields correctly, that is, we must use the right brain hemisphere appropriately.
SOLVING PROBLEMS
Most people, approximately 90 percent, cannot use their right brain hemisphere to think with.
In the Silva Method, everyone learns, with just a few hours of training, how to think with their right brain hemisphere, at the alpha level, and then take action at the beta brain wave level, using the left brain hemisphere.
Once you have access to both sides of your brain, and you have learned how to activate your mind while remaining at the alpha level, then you have tremendous programming capability.
Your thoughts will modulate your aura, so that everyone around you is influenced in a positive direction. This will make your life much easier.
And you are also able to project your thoughts great distances, through the use of the right brain hemisphere, so that you can influence people and events that are not in your physical presence.
BY CHANCE OR BY CHOICE?
Your aura is automatically influencing people around you, whether you know it or not.
The question is: What kind of influence is it?
What kind of people do you attract into your life?
This can give you an idea of what kind of message you are putting out through your aura.
A big portion of the attraction between male and female comes through the aura.
Have you ever met a person of the opposite sex and immediately felt attracted to them, even though at first glance they would not seem to be your type? This happens to most people. It is the influence of the aura.
When you meet the right person, you know it immediately, because of the way you feel. This is the
influence of the two auras coming together in a certain way.
Once the boy and girl start dating each other, their auras begin a process of trying to alter the other person's aura. Eventually, both are altered a certain amount, until they are equal and in harmony with each other.
That's why it is important for couples to stay physically close to each other. They should sleep in the same bed.
If one person starts seeing another person, then their aura changes, and it is no longer in complete harmony with their original partner's aura. Then the original partners grow apart.
When you learn to function at the alpha level with the Silva Method techniques, you become more sensitive both at detecting information that can affect your life, and in programming to correct problems.
Unfortunately, 90 percent of the people on the planet live their lives more by chance than by choice. They hope that good things happen to them, but all too often they don't.
People who use both brain hemispheres have the ability to take greater control over their own lives, and to be healthier, happier, and more successful.
If you are not one of the fortunate ten percent who are "naturals," you need not despair. Simply take the Silva Method training and practice the techniques and you will be able to do all that the naturals can do...and probably even more.
It is how God intended us to live - using all of the equipment that we were given, using both brain hemispheres, using both the beta and the alpha levels consciously, to detect information and to correct problems.
--- --- --- ---
Please be sure to check in at our online alumni association clubhouse from time to time - www.SIGA.org - and take advantage of the resources available there. Thank you.
by Jose Silva
Here's a short quiz:
Why is your body like a radio?
Because both are communications devices.
Your body radiates energy, called an aura, just as a radio station radiates electromagnetic waves that carry a radio program.
I spent much of my life repairing radios and other electronic equipment. When I began to learn about the human mind and the body's aura, my experience with electronics came in very handy.
It helped me to understand some of the ways that we communicate, ways that most people don't yet fully understand.
Your body is a much more sophisticated communications station than a radio transmitter. You can communicate with:
*Words
*The tone and inflection of your voice
*Your eyes
*Your body language
*Your hands
*Your aura
*Your mind
The first six kinds of communication that we've listed here are limited by time and space. People have to be able to hear you or see you, or be within range of your aura.
The seventh kind of communication - your mind and your psychic ability - has no limits, as far as we know. You can communicate with anyone, anywhere, instantly, with your mind.
There are plenty of books and courses to help you with the first five types of communication.
Now, I want to talk about the other two.
YOUR AURA
The human body radiates seven energy fields. The combined energy fields are called the human aura.
The human aura is modulated by brain activity.
To modulate means to change, to alter in some way.
A radio transmitter transmits a "carrier signal."
The information to be transmitted - the announcer's voice, for instance, or the music being played - is combined with the carrier signal and alters the carrier signal.
The radio that receives this combined signal then strips away the carrier signal and is left with only the information that was added to it.
Your aura is modulated by your brain activity. Your brain is modulated by thoughts. Every thought that you have alters - modulates - your aura.
YOUR AURA PENETRATES AND ALTERS MATTER
The objective part of your aura radiates out about eight meters - about 25 feet - from your body. Anyone within that range can detect your aura.
That's why, when a person who is very upset comes into a room, you can "feel" their presence even before you see them or hear them.
You can influence people around you by your own thoughts. If you are happy and at peace, your aura will reflect this, and will tend to influence other people's auras to be happy and peaceful.
The aura energy penetrates both inanimate and animate matter, causing an alteration in matter.
*Inanimate matter retains the alteration.
*Animate matter continues to evolve in an altered state.
THOUGHT MODULATION
There are several different frequencies that the brain operate on:
*Beta, the outer conscious level, which is ideal for taking action in the physical world.
*Alpha, the inner conscious level (formerly the sub-conscious), the strongest, most rhythmic frequency, ideal for thinking.
*Theta, a lower frequency.
*Delta, associated with deep sleep.
Thinking modulates the brain at various frequencies: the beta brain wave frequencies, and also at the lower alpha brain wave frequencies.
*The energy transmitted when thought modulates the brain at the beta frequency is limited by distance. This energy, a physical energy, can be used either to help or to harm. It can attract animate matter back to normal, or force matter into an abnormal condition.
This is what happens when a psychic bends a spoon: The normal is changed to the abnormal, through the use of the physical part of the body's aura radiation. That's why we don't teach or practice spoon bending in the Silva Method; we prefer to change the abnormal to the normal.
*When thoughts modulate the brain at the alpha frequency, then distance is no barrier. When doing this, you can help, but you cannot harm. You can change the abnormal back to the normal, but you cannot change the normal to the abnormal with this subjective, spiritual (non-physical) energy.
It takes physical energy to cause physical harm, to change the normal to the abnormal. Physical energy works by repulsion.
Spiritual energy cannot exert force against physics. Spiritual energy can only work through attraction. It attracts animate matter to return to a normal condition, to conform to the original spiritual blueprint for that particular object.
The modulation is stronger when thought is accompanied by imagination.
The most effective programming is done when thought, accompanied by imagination, modulates the brain at the alpha level, where there is the most energy, and where distance is no barrier.
EXAMINING THE AURA
The human aura is made up of seven fields of energy:
The first is spiritual, the genetic, which is controlled 99 percent by the "other side," from the
spiritual dimension. The next three: sub-atomic, atomic, and part of the molecular, are controlled from the right brain hemisphere. However, the molecular evolves into the physical, and is partially controlled by the left brain hemisphere.
The final three: cells, organs, and organ systems, are controlled from the left brain hemisphere.
In order to live a normal life, the way God intended, we must learn to control the energy fields correctly, that is, we must use the right brain hemisphere appropriately.
SOLVING PROBLEMS
Most people, approximately 90 percent, cannot use their right brain hemisphere to think with.
In the Silva Method, everyone learns, with just a few hours of training, how to think with their right brain hemisphere, at the alpha level, and then take action at the beta brain wave level, using the left brain hemisphere.
Once you have access to both sides of your brain, and you have learned how to activate your mind while remaining at the alpha level, then you have tremendous programming capability.
Your thoughts will modulate your aura, so that everyone around you is influenced in a positive direction. This will make your life much easier.
And you are also able to project your thoughts great distances, through the use of the right brain hemisphere, so that you can influence people and events that are not in your physical presence.
BY CHANCE OR BY CHOICE?
Your aura is automatically influencing people around you, whether you know it or not.
The question is: What kind of influence is it?
What kind of people do you attract into your life?
This can give you an idea of what kind of message you are putting out through your aura.
A big portion of the attraction between male and female comes through the aura.
Have you ever met a person of the opposite sex and immediately felt attracted to them, even though at first glance they would not seem to be your type? This happens to most people. It is the influence of the aura.
When you meet the right person, you know it immediately, because of the way you feel. This is the
influence of the two auras coming together in a certain way.
Once the boy and girl start dating each other, their auras begin a process of trying to alter the other person's aura. Eventually, both are altered a certain amount, until they are equal and in harmony with each other.
That's why it is important for couples to stay physically close to each other. They should sleep in the same bed.
If one person starts seeing another person, then their aura changes, and it is no longer in complete harmony with their original partner's aura. Then the original partners grow apart.
When you learn to function at the alpha level with the Silva Method techniques, you become more sensitive both at detecting information that can affect your life, and in programming to correct problems.
Unfortunately, 90 percent of the people on the planet live their lives more by chance than by choice. They hope that good things happen to them, but all too often they don't.
People who use both brain hemispheres have the ability to take greater control over their own lives, and to be healthier, happier, and more successful.
If you are not one of the fortunate ten percent who are "naturals," you need not despair. Simply take the Silva Method training and practice the techniques and you will be able to do all that the naturals can do...and probably even more.
It is how God intended us to live - using all of the equipment that we were given, using both brain hemispheres, using both the beta and the alpha levels consciously, to detect information and to correct problems.
--- --- --- ---
Please be sure to check in at our online alumni association clubhouse from time to time - www.SIGA.org - and take advantage of the resources available there. Thank you.
Friday, September 30, 2011
What is the Alpha State?
Alpha is the 'key' to the meditative state, effective meditation.
How can you get there?
How do you know you're there?
For more information contact me at Barbara.SilvaStars@gmail.com
How can you get there?
How do you know you're there?
For more information contact me at Barbara.SilvaStars@gmail.com
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Think With the Right Brain Hemisphere and Act With the Left
This article has some of Jose Silva’s reflections as one year came to an end and a new year began.
He saw what he usually saw: That the 90 percent of humanity who only think with the left brain hemisphere, are causing more problems than the 10 percent who think with the right brain hemisphere and act with the left, can correct.
by JOSE SILVA
Many people like to take time out at the beginning of the new year to pray for peace on earth.
There are new age groups that meditate on peace on earth. A lot of Silva Method graduates pray for it.
We certainly need it.
Look wherever you like, and you will see problems:
*People trying to destroy whole races in the name of the creator.
*Governments treating their citizens like property to be used at their pleasure and then disposed of.
*Politicians who fight any idea from the opposing party no matter how good the idea might be for the citizens.
*Businesses taking advantage of every possible loophole - and even resorting to dishonesty and sabotage of their competitors - in order to improve the "bottom line."
*Individuals hoping to "get rich quick" through any means possible, from lawsuits against corporations with "deep pockets" to gambling to fraud and theft whenever they think they can get away with it.
It is not all bad, of course. There are still people out there - and businesses and governments - that care about other people, who care about the effect that their actions have on other people, and who try to do what they honestly believe is best for all concerned.
A NEW WAY
These problems are taking their toll. This has been recognized by individuals, by businesses, and by governments.
And this has spawned a whole new industry -an industry involved with "reinvention."
There are business guru's who want to help us "reinvent" business. And others who want to help us "reinvent" government.
They boast whenever they manage to get someone to do the right thing, the thing that is best for all concerned.
*A politician goes on national television and boasts about how he got a government agency to stop paying 100 times more for some product than it is worth!
*An officer of a corporation writes a best selling book about how his company has started to actually provide satisfactory service to its customers!
*It is headline news nationwide when somebody returns a valuable item that they found to its owner!
DIFFERENT VALUES
Thirty years ago in the United States a guru was a spiritual person who dedicated his or her life to helping people and uplifting the human spirit.
Now when you mention "guru" people want to know the title of his latest book, and what method he uses to help businesses be more competitive in the '90s.
And the new style of guru obliges. He comes up with new models for operating a business. You flatted out the organizational chart, or "empower" employees, or actually listen to your customers!
A BETTER PLAN
As we begin this new year, I'd like to suggest another way to go about correcting our problems and bringing peace to the planet.
It is not the institutions that are at fault.
*Not government.
*Not business.
*Not politicians.
*Not lawyers.
Institutions are run by people. Decisions are made by people. Actions are taken by people.
If we make a better person, then the institutions will automatically be better.
They will function more efficiently. They will serve people better. We will all be happier and better off.
If we can somehow convince people to work for the common good, to do what is best for all concerned, then we will all be better off.
I am not saying that you should not stand up for what you believe in. You should fight for what you believe is right.
At the same time, you should realize that different people have different goals. They may have needs that are different from yours.
RESPECT EVERYONE
Some people may want to worship in a different way than you do.
Let them!
Have you ever noticed that the people who start wars are the people with little minds who cannot conceive of anyone else being right except for themselves?
The people who say, "I believe I have found the correct answer, but I respect your right to differ with me," do not start wars.
It is the people who say, "My way is the only way." They are the ones who start wars.
It amazes me that the people who claim to be the most religious, those who profess their strong belief in their religion, are usually the ones who show the most disrespect for the creator's greatest creation: other human beings.
Rather than supporting people and respecting their ideas and helping them to live productive, happy lives - they condemn them because their ideas about the creator are different.
Most wars are started by people who are so narrow-minded - who have such little minds - that they cannot accept the fact that might not know everything there is to know.
These little-minded people act like they are some kind of god, with the right to tell everybody else how to live and how to believe and how to pray.
In order to have peace on this planet, we must learn to respect everyone. We must respect each other's right to do as we choose, so long as we are not harming anyone else.
HOW TO PROGRAM
We are not going to bring peace to the planet just by wishing for it.
We are not going to correct the problems that face us by "reinventing" business and government.
All of the cute slogans that the guru's write about in their books and say so eloquently on their tapes may feel good for a moment, but they are not going to change the basic problems facing humanity today.
Those problems deal with humans...with people.
To make a better world, we need to make a better person.
Fortunately, there is a way to do that.
The people who correct the most problems, who bring the greatest benefits to humanity, are the people who do their thinking at the alpha brain wave level, where they can use their intuitive and creative right brain hemisphere to think with.
With your right brain hemisphere, you can get more information than you can from the left hemisphere alone. You can sense information intuitively that is not available to your physical senses. This will help you make better decisions.
The alpha brain wave level is the ideal level to think at, the ideal level for decision making.
When all people on the planet learn how to use the alpha level to think with, to get information and make decisions, then our institutions will work properly, nations will live in peace with each other, and we will actually have a paradise on earth.
At the alpha level, it is easier to determine what our purpose is in life. It is easier to understand and respect other people.
Those people who speak hateful words, who condemn others simply for being different, are not alpha thinkers. They are losers. They deserve our pity. We should try to help them, by showing them how to use both brain hemispheres to think with.
Teaching all of the 5 billion people on the planet to learn how to center themselves at alpha is too big a job for one person. It will take all of us, working together, to get the job done.
If you have children between the ages of seven and fourteen, then teach them to use visualization and imagination. Teach them to use their intuition. Just ask them to do it, and praise them every time they are correct.
If you do that, they will grow up with the ability to function at alpha whenever they desire. If you have questions about it, contact your local Silva Method lecturer, or contact us here in Laredo. We have written a book, and are putting together a home study course, to help parents help their children.
People older than fourteen need to take the Silva Method training to regain the ability to function at alpha.
It can be done. It should be done. I believe that it must be done if we are to have peace on our planet.
And I believe that when we do this, when everyone can - and does - function at alpha, then we will have a paradise one earth.
Please be sure to check in at our online alumni association clubhouse from time to time - www.SIGA.org - and take advantage of the resources available there. Thank you.
Avlis Productions Inc., P.O. Box 691809, Houston, TX 77269, United States
He saw what he usually saw: That the 90 percent of humanity who only think with the left brain hemisphere, are causing more problems than the 10 percent who think with the right brain hemisphere and act with the left, can correct.
by JOSE SILVA
Many people like to take time out at the beginning of the new year to pray for peace on earth.
There are new age groups that meditate on peace on earth. A lot of Silva Method graduates pray for it.
We certainly need it.
Look wherever you like, and you will see problems:
*People trying to destroy whole races in the name of the creator.
*Governments treating their citizens like property to be used at their pleasure and then disposed of.
*Politicians who fight any idea from the opposing party no matter how good the idea might be for the citizens.
*Businesses taking advantage of every possible loophole - and even resorting to dishonesty and sabotage of their competitors - in order to improve the "bottom line."
*Individuals hoping to "get rich quick" through any means possible, from lawsuits against corporations with "deep pockets" to gambling to fraud and theft whenever they think they can get away with it.
It is not all bad, of course. There are still people out there - and businesses and governments - that care about other people, who care about the effect that their actions have on other people, and who try to do what they honestly believe is best for all concerned.
A NEW WAY
These problems are taking their toll. This has been recognized by individuals, by businesses, and by governments.
And this has spawned a whole new industry -an industry involved with "reinvention."
There are business guru's who want to help us "reinvent" business. And others who want to help us "reinvent" government.
They boast whenever they manage to get someone to do the right thing, the thing that is best for all concerned.
*A politician goes on national television and boasts about how he got a government agency to stop paying 100 times more for some product than it is worth!
*An officer of a corporation writes a best selling book about how his company has started to actually provide satisfactory service to its customers!
*It is headline news nationwide when somebody returns a valuable item that they found to its owner!
DIFFERENT VALUES
Thirty years ago in the United States a guru was a spiritual person who dedicated his or her life to helping people and uplifting the human spirit.
Now when you mention "guru" people want to know the title of his latest book, and what method he uses to help businesses be more competitive in the '90s.
And the new style of guru obliges. He comes up with new models for operating a business. You flatted out the organizational chart, or "empower" employees, or actually listen to your customers!
A BETTER PLAN
As we begin this new year, I'd like to suggest another way to go about correcting our problems and bringing peace to the planet.
It is not the institutions that are at fault.
*Not government.
*Not business.
*Not politicians.
*Not lawyers.
Institutions are run by people. Decisions are made by people. Actions are taken by people.
If we make a better person, then the institutions will automatically be better.
They will function more efficiently. They will serve people better. We will all be happier and better off.
If we can somehow convince people to work for the common good, to do what is best for all concerned, then we will all be better off.
I am not saying that you should not stand up for what you believe in. You should fight for what you believe is right.
At the same time, you should realize that different people have different goals. They may have needs that are different from yours.
RESPECT EVERYONE
Some people may want to worship in a different way than you do.
Let them!
Have you ever noticed that the people who start wars are the people with little minds who cannot conceive of anyone else being right except for themselves?
The people who say, "I believe I have found the correct answer, but I respect your right to differ with me," do not start wars.
It is the people who say, "My way is the only way." They are the ones who start wars.
It amazes me that the people who claim to be the most religious, those who profess their strong belief in their religion, are usually the ones who show the most disrespect for the creator's greatest creation: other human beings.
Rather than supporting people and respecting their ideas and helping them to live productive, happy lives - they condemn them because their ideas about the creator are different.
Most wars are started by people who are so narrow-minded - who have such little minds - that they cannot accept the fact that might not know everything there is to know.
These little-minded people act like they are some kind of god, with the right to tell everybody else how to live and how to believe and how to pray.
In order to have peace on this planet, we must learn to respect everyone. We must respect each other's right to do as we choose, so long as we are not harming anyone else.
HOW TO PROGRAM
We are not going to bring peace to the planet just by wishing for it.
We are not going to correct the problems that face us by "reinventing" business and government.
All of the cute slogans that the guru's write about in their books and say so eloquently on their tapes may feel good for a moment, but they are not going to change the basic problems facing humanity today.
Those problems deal with humans...with people.
To make a better world, we need to make a better person.
Fortunately, there is a way to do that.
The people who correct the most problems, who bring the greatest benefits to humanity, are the people who do their thinking at the alpha brain wave level, where they can use their intuitive and creative right brain hemisphere to think with.
With your right brain hemisphere, you can get more information than you can from the left hemisphere alone. You can sense information intuitively that is not available to your physical senses. This will help you make better decisions.
The alpha brain wave level is the ideal level to think at, the ideal level for decision making.
When all people on the planet learn how to use the alpha level to think with, to get information and make decisions, then our institutions will work properly, nations will live in peace with each other, and we will actually have a paradise on earth.
At the alpha level, it is easier to determine what our purpose is in life. It is easier to understand and respect other people.
Those people who speak hateful words, who condemn others simply for being different, are not alpha thinkers. They are losers. They deserve our pity. We should try to help them, by showing them how to use both brain hemispheres to think with.
Teaching all of the 5 billion people on the planet to learn how to center themselves at alpha is too big a job for one person. It will take all of us, working together, to get the job done.
If you have children between the ages of seven and fourteen, then teach them to use visualization and imagination. Teach them to use their intuition. Just ask them to do it, and praise them every time they are correct.
If you do that, they will grow up with the ability to function at alpha whenever they desire. If you have questions about it, contact your local Silva Method lecturer, or contact us here in Laredo. We have written a book, and are putting together a home study course, to help parents help their children.
People older than fourteen need to take the Silva Method training to regain the ability to function at alpha.
It can be done. It should be done. I believe that it must be done if we are to have peace on our planet.
And I believe that when we do this, when everyone can - and does - function at alpha, then we will have a paradise one earth.
Please be sure to check in at our online alumni association clubhouse from time to time - www.SIGA.org - and take advantage of the resources available there. Thank you.
Avlis Productions Inc., P.O. Box 691809, Houston, TX 77269, United States
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
What Jose Silva Did That Napolean Hill Did Not!
Jose Silva did something that nobody else had done:
He used electronic equipment to see what was going on inside of the ultra successful people, and he found a way to teach all of us to do what they do. Here is an article he wrote several years ago.
Written by JOSE SILVA
Napoleon Hill spent 20 years observing the most successful people in the world and studying what they did and how they did it.
He wrote about what he observed, and taught courses on it.
He spoke of how they all had a definite chief aim in life, how they had great desire and enthusiasm, a strong work ethic, and much more.
All of these are mental traits, not physical. They all arise from within the person.
Yet Hill was only able to study them from an objective - outer - left brain - point of view.
He studied - and taught - the effect, not the cause.
He was not able to teach how to make changes within, so he taught people to imitate the actions of
successful people. This is very different from becoming like the successful people.
So instead of installing these characteristics from within, he tried to force them in from the outside, because that's all he knew how to do.
If you imitate the actions of successful people, eventually you might internalize some of it. If you do
enough, for long enough, it is sure to help you.
Some people are even able to internalize it, to make it their own, so that their actions spring from within, instead of merely being on the outside.
A few people - the ten percent or so who are natural alpha - right brain - thinkers, were able to internalize these ideals, and they went on to become huge successes in their lives.
Meanwhile, all the other people who tried to follow the teachings and failed to achieve much success, thought of themselves as failures, as somehow falling short because they were lazy or dumb or something.
But that's not true! They often worked just as hard, acted just as enthusiastic as the most successful
person, and imitated all of the other characteristics that Hill wrote about.
So why didn't they succeed?
Because they were trying to shove it in from the outside. They were dealing with effects, not causes.
Any success book or success course will work for some people. It will work for some of the ten percent or so who are natural alpha - right brain - thinkers. That's why you will always see some people who swear by a success book or success course. They are the lucky few who can get it to work for them. These books and courses are always authored by successful people who are successful because they are natural alpha - right brain - thinkers.
Some people who are not natural alpha - right brain - thinkers can follow the instructions in the success books and imitate the successful and become successful themselves. These are usually people who have great energy and drive. But even then, their success is limited.
Not because they are lazy or dumb, but because they have never learned how to enter the alpha level with conscious awareness, and remain at the alpha level when they become mentally active, so that they can use their right brain hemisphere to think with, so that they can get subjective information through the right brain hemisphere - that is, they can read minds.
It is much more difficult to achieve much success when you are not able to enter alpha and think with your right brain hemisphere and detect information mentally, information that is not available to your physical senses, and send information mentally, through subjective means.
It is much like a person who has never learned to read or write. They can still get by in the world, but it is more difficult, and their options are more limited. There are many fields that are not open to a person who cannot read or write.
Even a person who is a slow reader and a mediocre writer can usually go much farther than a person with high energy and great intelligence who is illiterate.
A person who is illiterate is not dumb, is not necessarily lazy. A person who does not know how to enter the alpha level with conscious awareness, and become mentally active while remaining at the alpha level, is not dumb, is not necessarily lazy.
These are skills that anybody can learn by using the Silva Method techniques. And everybody should learn, if we are to solve the problems of the world.
Please be sure to check in at our online alumni association clubhouse from time to time - www.SIGA.org - and take advantage of the resources available there. Thank you.
He used electronic equipment to see what was going on inside of the ultra successful people, and he found a way to teach all of us to do what they do. Here is an article he wrote several years ago.
Written by JOSE SILVA
Napoleon Hill spent 20 years observing the most successful people in the world and studying what they did and how they did it.
He wrote about what he observed, and taught courses on it.
He spoke of how they all had a definite chief aim in life, how they had great desire and enthusiasm, a strong work ethic, and much more.
All of these are mental traits, not physical. They all arise from within the person.
Yet Hill was only able to study them from an objective - outer - left brain - point of view.
He studied - and taught - the effect, not the cause.
He was not able to teach how to make changes within, so he taught people to imitate the actions of
successful people. This is very different from becoming like the successful people.
So instead of installing these characteristics from within, he tried to force them in from the outside, because that's all he knew how to do.
If you imitate the actions of successful people, eventually you might internalize some of it. If you do
enough, for long enough, it is sure to help you.
Some people are even able to internalize it, to make it their own, so that their actions spring from within, instead of merely being on the outside.
A few people - the ten percent or so who are natural alpha - right brain - thinkers, were able to internalize these ideals, and they went on to become huge successes in their lives.
Meanwhile, all the other people who tried to follow the teachings and failed to achieve much success, thought of themselves as failures, as somehow falling short because they were lazy or dumb or something.
But that's not true! They often worked just as hard, acted just as enthusiastic as the most successful
person, and imitated all of the other characteristics that Hill wrote about.
So why didn't they succeed?
Because they were trying to shove it in from the outside. They were dealing with effects, not causes.
Any success book or success course will work for some people. It will work for some of the ten percent or so who are natural alpha - right brain - thinkers. That's why you will always see some people who swear by a success book or success course. They are the lucky few who can get it to work for them. These books and courses are always authored by successful people who are successful because they are natural alpha - right brain - thinkers.
Some people who are not natural alpha - right brain - thinkers can follow the instructions in the success books and imitate the successful and become successful themselves. These are usually people who have great energy and drive. But even then, their success is limited.
Not because they are lazy or dumb, but because they have never learned how to enter the alpha level with conscious awareness, and remain at the alpha level when they become mentally active, so that they can use their right brain hemisphere to think with, so that they can get subjective information through the right brain hemisphere - that is, they can read minds.
It is much more difficult to achieve much success when you are not able to enter alpha and think with your right brain hemisphere and detect information mentally, information that is not available to your physical senses, and send information mentally, through subjective means.
It is much like a person who has never learned to read or write. They can still get by in the world, but it is more difficult, and their options are more limited. There are many fields that are not open to a person who cannot read or write.
Even a person who is a slow reader and a mediocre writer can usually go much farther than a person with high energy and great intelligence who is illiterate.
A person who is illiterate is not dumb, is not necessarily lazy. A person who does not know how to enter the alpha level with conscious awareness, and become mentally active while remaining at the alpha level, is not dumb, is not necessarily lazy.
These are skills that anybody can learn by using the Silva Method techniques. And everybody should learn, if we are to solve the problems of the world.
Please be sure to check in at our online alumni association clubhouse from time to time - www.SIGA.org - and take advantage of the resources available there. Thank you.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Alpha All The Time?
Often when talking to students of The Silva Method as well as other pursuits, I'm asked how to stay in alpha all the time. My answer is always "It's not necessary or appropriate to be in alpha all the time." The following article from SIGA is on this very topic. Let's listen to Jose's thoughts on the subject:
Sometimes people ask us how they can remain at the alpha level all day.
We explain that they can learn to have alpha functioning at any time in order to detect information, make decisions, and correct problems.
Once we have obtained the information and made our decisions and correct problems mentally, then we need to use the 20 cycles per second beta frequency and get into action in order to manifest the solution in the physical dimension.
Here is the way that Jose Silva saw it:
by Jose Silva
Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.
Many people learn how to program very effectively, and often they are able to get those things that they program for. Yet they still find their lives limited and unfulfilled.
Other people are very creative, and come up with many excellent ideas, yet never seem to achieve very much, or make money from their ideas, or help anybody with those ideas.
You find all kinds of people. There are those who are excellent at research, at digging out the facts, yet they never determine what to do with those things that they learn.
Some people are so paralyzed by indecision that they literally become nervous wrecks.
To achieve success - and by success I mean whatever you determine success to be for you - you must take appropriate action, for wishing does not make it so. Proper programming, coupled with appropriate action, makes things happen.
HOW TO PROCEED
Let's take it step by step.
First, seek guidance. You do this by entering your level, functioning in the subjective dimension where prayers are effective, where you can make contact with High Intelligence. Consider your qualifications, what you like, the things you are good at. Then ask what you should do to serve, how you can help the Creator. Be aware of your strong points, but do not limit yourself; expect creative guidance.
Then clear your mind; expect an answer. Some people spend all their time asking and talking. You must be a good listener. If necessary, use your Glass of Water Technique to obtain guidance. The guidance will come. Then you are ready for the second step.
Second, you decide how to fulfill your purpose in life. This involves both time at level, and action in the physical world. You must program for success, and you must also start doing something.
Some people want to wait until they are perfect before they are ready to fulfill their missions. This is a mistake. If you were perfect, you would not be here in this classroom called Earth. This is our training ground - on-the-job training.
It is very important to learn all you can while you are here. And it is important to love, and to express your love, to other humans on this planet. Learning how to interact better in relationships with other humans is something very important while we are here.
We have a choice about our relationships with others. We can compete, or we can cooperate. Throughout the world, many people are competing -- often with guns and bombs. It is important that we change this, and help bring peace to our planet.
(This column originally appeared in the Silva Method Newsletter in 1984.)
Sometimes people ask us how they can remain at the alpha level all day.
We explain that they can learn to have alpha functioning at any time in order to detect information, make decisions, and correct problems.
Once we have obtained the information and made our decisions and correct problems mentally, then we need to use the 20 cycles per second beta frequency and get into action in order to manifest the solution in the physical dimension.
Here is the way that Jose Silva saw it:
by Jose Silva
Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.
Many people learn how to program very effectively, and often they are able to get those things that they program for. Yet they still find their lives limited and unfulfilled.
Other people are very creative, and come up with many excellent ideas, yet never seem to achieve very much, or make money from their ideas, or help anybody with those ideas.
You find all kinds of people. There are those who are excellent at research, at digging out the facts, yet they never determine what to do with those things that they learn.
Some people are so paralyzed by indecision that they literally become nervous wrecks.
To achieve success - and by success I mean whatever you determine success to be for you - you must take appropriate action, for wishing does not make it so. Proper programming, coupled with appropriate action, makes things happen.
HOW TO PROCEED
Let's take it step by step.
First, seek guidance. You do this by entering your level, functioning in the subjective dimension where prayers are effective, where you can make contact with High Intelligence. Consider your qualifications, what you like, the things you are good at. Then ask what you should do to serve, how you can help the Creator. Be aware of your strong points, but do not limit yourself; expect creative guidance.
Then clear your mind; expect an answer. Some people spend all their time asking and talking. You must be a good listener. If necessary, use your Glass of Water Technique to obtain guidance. The guidance will come. Then you are ready for the second step.
Second, you decide how to fulfill your purpose in life. This involves both time at level, and action in the physical world. You must program for success, and you must also start doing something.
Some people want to wait until they are perfect before they are ready to fulfill their missions. This is a mistake. If you were perfect, you would not be here in this classroom called Earth. This is our training ground - on-the-job training.
It is very important to learn all you can while you are here. And it is important to love, and to express your love, to other humans on this planet. Learning how to interact better in relationships with other humans is something very important while we are here.
We have a choice about our relationships with others. We can compete, or we can cooperate. Throughout the world, many people are competing -- often with guns and bombs. It is important that we change this, and help bring peace to our planet.
(This column originally appeared in the Silva Method Newsletter in 1984.)
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