by Vishen Lakhiani
At FinerMinds and MindValley we do everything to try and connect with our readers and customers. We’re always wondering what’s on your minds and how we can better help you, so we begin creating a series of videos to help answer your biggest questions.
At our sister sites, such as the American Monk, Silva Life System, and Quantum Jumping, one of the biggest questions we get asked is, “How can I improve my creative visualization?” It makes sense that this question comes up since most personal growth techniques and courses advocate creative visualization.
So to help answer the question (you’re probably thinking it too), check out the video below. I teach a technique called Image Streaming that will help you improve your ability to visualize.
February 8, 2011
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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Saturday, February 16, 2019
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Have You Met 'The Winning Sage'?
What do you notice as you watch Helene talk about her wins.
Is it magic? No! As you listen, notice how she knows exactly what she desires. Notice her profound belief.
Desire Belief Expectation
"You can have anything you want provided you know what it is.
See yourself as having it.
If there's a delay in results don't be disappointed. Maybe you need to cultivate a little more patience and it's yours.
It's energy as it's got to come to you."
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.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
How to Be Your Own Psychic
In this article, Jose Silva urges us to stop paying commercial psychics when we are perfectly capable of doing it for ourselves.by Jose Silva
You don't need to pay a commercial psychic to tell you about your past.
You can learn to be your own psychic and make correct decisions for your future.
"Psychic hotlines" have become very popular in the United States, with hundreds of thousands of people every week paying almost $5 per minute to talk to the telephone psychics.
For a flat fee, you can probably find a local psychic that you can go see in person.
PSYCHIC AUTHORITY
We know both kinds. They call us here at Silva International because they know that we have conducted more research on psychics than anybody else, and more importantly, we understand the process so well that we can train anyone to be a psychic.
We've had telephone psychics admit to us that they often just listen and provide comfort to callers. Many times, the callers want an audience more than they want an answer.
When you sit down in front of any good commercial psychic, they can tune in to you and tell you about many of the things that have happened to you in the past.
The past has already been impressed on physics, so it is relatively easy to detect. In fact, in just one weekend of training, our Silva Method instructors teach large groups of people how to detect existing information.
But what about the future? After a commercial psychic has impressed you by mentioning several things from your past, can they provide you with reliable predictions of the future? Can they give you information that will help you make better decisions? Can you correct more problems after paying to consult with a commercial psychic?
PSYCHIC ACCURACY
If just one out of every five recommendations turns out to be helpful, that's just average. Anyone can do that - by luck alone.
If they can give you two correct recommendations for the future out of every five, then you know that they have gone beyond mere chance, and are actually using their psychic ability.
Good psychics can do even better than that. They will be correct three out of five times, or even four out of five times.
Think about that for a minute: Anybody who can make more correct decisions than incorrect ones is going to be very successful.
In fact, you can still be pretty successful if you just reach the first step and are correct two out of five times - twice the average of a non-psychic.
How can this be?
PROBLEM SOLVING
If you have the ability to determine quickly whether your decision was right or wrong, then you know how to proceed:
*You can reinforce the correct decisions and keep going.
*When the decision is wrong, you can stop whatever you are doing and try again.
In order to do this, you would have to consult the commercial psychic daily - maybe several times a day - to insure that you get information quickly enough to make the necessary adjustments.
This could get very expensive at $5 per minute, or $50 per sit-down session with a local psychic.
So why not do it yourself?
For a modest investment, anyone can take the Silva Method training and learn how to be a psychic. Guaranteed, or your money back.
You even get to try out your psychic ability during the final portion of the course. You detect health information with your mind about people that you have never met, and verify that you are correct!
Then, all you need to do is to practice in order to develop skill at detecting any kind of information that you need in order to correct problems.
Will this help you win the lottery? Probably not. It seems as though the creator gave us these abilities to use to correct problems and make the world a better place to live.
If winning some money is the best way to correct a specific problem, then you'll probably win some money. But something like this will come naturally - if it comes at all; we don't scheme and program for it to happen.
We program to correct a problem.
HOW IT IS DONE
We don't use our psychic ability for everything, of course. When your car is low on gasoline, that's a problem. The solution is to go to a gas station and put in some gasoline. Normally, you don't need anything extra to correct that problem.
But supposed when you get there, the gas station is closed. And the gas gauge is on empty.
Now you have a bigger problem.
You did what you normally do to take care of the situation, and it didn't work. Now you need to call on your psychic ability for extra help:
Which way should I go to find the nearest - open - gas station, so that I don't run out of gas and get stranded?
In situations like this, if you are right more times than you are wrong, you will be much better off.
If you are a parent and you encounter a problem with your child, you counsel them and solve the problem.
If your counseling doesn't solve the problem, then you use your psychic ability to gain more information so that you can do a better job.
Does this guarantee that you will correct the problem?
No, it doesn't. Even the best psychics are sometimes wrong. They may be right four out of five times, but this still leaves some times that they are wrong.
THE MOST VALUABLE PSYCHIC
If you are your own psychic, you will discover very quickly that your strategy is not working. Then, armed with this additional information, you will use your psychic ability again and you will probably come up with the correct answer.
If you have to wait until you can contact your commercial psychic, then at the very least, it will take longer to correct the problem. And during that time, the situation may get worse.
It is obvious that you will do better functioning as your own psychic than by going to a commercial psychic, even if the commercial psychic is more experienced than you are, and is correct more often then you are.
Your ability to use your psychic ability at any time you need it, to incorporate new information, and to make changes "on the fly" so to speak, is far more valuable to you and to your loved ones than the "expert" guidance of a commercial psychic.
That still doesn't guarantee that you'll solve that particular problem, of course. Everyone has free will. When you are dealing with other people, you cannot control what they do.
If we could control other people, this could lead to huge problems, with everybody trying to control everybody else. No, that just wouldn't work. We need everybody's efforts, everyone's ideas and input in order to correct the problems that the world faces.
A SIMPLE SOLUTION
If you want to improve your life, to be more in control of your own destiny, to be healthier, happier, and more successful, then there is a simple solution:
Attend the Silva Method Basic Lecture Series, or the new Silva UltraMind ESP System, to develop your psychic ability.
Then practice, practice, practice.
Correct problems whenever you become aware of them.
Not just your own problems, but any problems that you become aware of.
Use your psychic ability:
*first to obtain additional information so that you can make correct decisions, and
*second, to program - project your mind - and correct the problems that you detect.
It is easy. For an investment that is just a fraction of what people are paying commercial psychics for the limited help they can provide, you can attend the Silva Method training.
Then join with other Silva Method graduates to develop your ability by correcting problems, and make this a better world to live in.
--- --- --- ---
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.
You don't need to pay a commercial psychic to tell you about your past.
You can learn to be your own psychic and make correct decisions for your future.
"Psychic hotlines" have become very popular in the United States, with hundreds of thousands of people every week paying almost $5 per minute to talk to the telephone psychics.
For a flat fee, you can probably find a local psychic that you can go see in person.
PSYCHIC AUTHORITY
We know both kinds. They call us here at Silva International because they know that we have conducted more research on psychics than anybody else, and more importantly, we understand the process so well that we can train anyone to be a psychic.
We've had telephone psychics admit to us that they often just listen and provide comfort to callers. Many times, the callers want an audience more than they want an answer.
When you sit down in front of any good commercial psychic, they can tune in to you and tell you about many of the things that have happened to you in the past.
The past has already been impressed on physics, so it is relatively easy to detect. In fact, in just one weekend of training, our Silva Method instructors teach large groups of people how to detect existing information.
But what about the future? After a commercial psychic has impressed you by mentioning several things from your past, can they provide you with reliable predictions of the future? Can they give you information that will help you make better decisions? Can you correct more problems after paying to consult with a commercial psychic?
PSYCHIC ACCURACY
If just one out of every five recommendations turns out to be helpful, that's just average. Anyone can do that - by luck alone.
If they can give you two correct recommendations for the future out of every five, then you know that they have gone beyond mere chance, and are actually using their psychic ability.
Good psychics can do even better than that. They will be correct three out of five times, or even four out of five times.
Think about that for a minute: Anybody who can make more correct decisions than incorrect ones is going to be very successful.
In fact, you can still be pretty successful if you just reach the first step and are correct two out of five times - twice the average of a non-psychic.
How can this be?
PROBLEM SOLVING
If you have the ability to determine quickly whether your decision was right or wrong, then you know how to proceed:
*You can reinforce the correct decisions and keep going.
*When the decision is wrong, you can stop whatever you are doing and try again.
In order to do this, you would have to consult the commercial psychic daily - maybe several times a day - to insure that you get information quickly enough to make the necessary adjustments.
This could get very expensive at $5 per minute, or $50 per sit-down session with a local psychic.
So why not do it yourself?
For a modest investment, anyone can take the Silva Method training and learn how to be a psychic. Guaranteed, or your money back.
You even get to try out your psychic ability during the final portion of the course. You detect health information with your mind about people that you have never met, and verify that you are correct!
Then, all you need to do is to practice in order to develop skill at detecting any kind of information that you need in order to correct problems.
Will this help you win the lottery? Probably not. It seems as though the creator gave us these abilities to use to correct problems and make the world a better place to live.
If winning some money is the best way to correct a specific problem, then you'll probably win some money. But something like this will come naturally - if it comes at all; we don't scheme and program for it to happen.
We program to correct a problem.
HOW IT IS DONE
We don't use our psychic ability for everything, of course. When your car is low on gasoline, that's a problem. The solution is to go to a gas station and put in some gasoline. Normally, you don't need anything extra to correct that problem.
But supposed when you get there, the gas station is closed. And the gas gauge is on empty.
Now you have a bigger problem.
You did what you normally do to take care of the situation, and it didn't work. Now you need to call on your psychic ability for extra help:
Which way should I go to find the nearest - open - gas station, so that I don't run out of gas and get stranded?
In situations like this, if you are right more times than you are wrong, you will be much better off.
If you are a parent and you encounter a problem with your child, you counsel them and solve the problem.
If your counseling doesn't solve the problem, then you use your psychic ability to gain more information so that you can do a better job.
Does this guarantee that you will correct the problem?
No, it doesn't. Even the best psychics are sometimes wrong. They may be right four out of five times, but this still leaves some times that they are wrong.
THE MOST VALUABLE PSYCHIC
If you are your own psychic, you will discover very quickly that your strategy is not working. Then, armed with this additional information, you will use your psychic ability again and you will probably come up with the correct answer.
If you have to wait until you can contact your commercial psychic, then at the very least, it will take longer to correct the problem. And during that time, the situation may get worse.
It is obvious that you will do better functioning as your own psychic than by going to a commercial psychic, even if the commercial psychic is more experienced than you are, and is correct more often then you are.
Your ability to use your psychic ability at any time you need it, to incorporate new information, and to make changes "on the fly" so to speak, is far more valuable to you and to your loved ones than the "expert" guidance of a commercial psychic.
That still doesn't guarantee that you'll solve that particular problem, of course. Everyone has free will. When you are dealing with other people, you cannot control what they do.
If we could control other people, this could lead to huge problems, with everybody trying to control everybody else. No, that just wouldn't work. We need everybody's efforts, everyone's ideas and input in order to correct the problems that the world faces.
A SIMPLE SOLUTION
If you want to improve your life, to be more in control of your own destiny, to be healthier, happier, and more successful, then there is a simple solution:
Attend the Silva Method Basic Lecture Series, or the new Silva UltraMind ESP System, to develop your psychic ability.
Then practice, practice, practice.
Correct problems whenever you become aware of them.
Not just your own problems, but any problems that you become aware of.
Use your psychic ability:
*first to obtain additional information so that you can make correct decisions, and
*second, to program - project your mind - and correct the problems that you detect.
It is easy. For an investment that is just a fraction of what people are paying commercial psychics for the limited help they can provide, you can attend the Silva Method training.
Then join with other Silva Method graduates to develop your ability by correcting problems, and make this a better world to live in.
--- --- --- ---
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.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Identifying Abundance Blocks With Energy Healer Christie Marie Sheldon
It's so cool to 'meet' Silva Graduates who are using what they learned in the courses along with their inborn skills and abilities. As you watch this video notice where her Silva training shows through. Enjoy!
by FinerMinds Team
May 10, 2011
by FinerMinds Team
Awesome News Alert! We’re super excited to be bringing you an exclusive interview between Vishen and renowned Energy Healer, Christie Marie Sheldon.
Have you ever wondered why sometimes, it doesn’t seem to matter how hard you work or how much you count the pennies, things are always a bit tight at the end of the month? According to Christie, the key lies in overcoming the hidden Abundance Blocks that lurk within your energy field and subconscious mind.
Now, we’ve never seen Vishen at a loss for words before, but the (personal) things Christie’s been able to pick up about him have actually made him dumbstruck. She’s picked up on things that he’s never even shared with his closest friends – it’s pretty incredible. What Christie does (as she explains it) is communicate with someone’s energy to find out the source of the problem. Even right down to specific events and dates in a person’s life.
Check out this exclusive interview as Vishen finds out how she’s able to do this and how she got started on her path as an Energy Healer.
(psst, don’t miss him getting his energy read about half way through!)
Have you ever wondered why sometimes, it doesn’t seem to matter how hard you work or how much you count the pennies, things are always a bit tight at the end of the month? According to Christie, the key lies in overcoming the hidden Abundance Blocks that lurk within your energy field and subconscious mind.
Now, we’ve never seen Vishen at a loss for words before, but the (personal) things Christie’s been able to pick up about him have actually made him dumbstruck. She’s picked up on things that he’s never even shared with his closest friends – it’s pretty incredible. What Christie does (as she explains it) is communicate with someone’s energy to find out the source of the problem. Even right down to specific events and dates in a person’s life.
Check out this exclusive interview as Vishen finds out how she’s able to do this and how she got started on her path as an Energy Healer.
(psst, don’t miss him getting his energy read about half way through!)
May 10, 2011
Thursday, November 4, 2010
How To Stay Healthy And Energized Throughout The Day
Some people wonder how they'll incorporate Silva into daily living. In this video Laura Silva gives us a glimpse of her life and how she uses what her father taught her...what we today call The Silva Method (Silva Life System and Silva Intuition Training).
"How do you usually start your day? What's your routine like, and does it work for you?
Many people find it difficult to believe that I would run a marathon every three weeks. Add this on top of running Silva International and being a loving wife and mother, its no secret that I need to have an endless supply of energy.
For me, it is important to stick to a certain routine to maintain my health, and to always have energy to be able to give more.
I thought I would share how my day looks like. I hope you will enjoy the video and maybe it will help you in some ways too." Laura Silva, from the SilvaLifeSystem blog
Maybe you'll get some ideas like I did. Enjoy! A Day in the Life of Laura Silva
"How do you usually start your day? What's your routine like, and does it work for you?
Many people find it difficult to believe that I would run a marathon every three weeks. Add this on top of running Silva International and being a loving wife and mother, its no secret that I need to have an endless supply of energy.
For me, it is important to stick to a certain routine to maintain my health, and to always have energy to be able to give more.
I thought I would share how my day looks like. I hope you will enjoy the video and maybe it will help you in some ways too." Laura Silva, from the SilvaLifeSystem blog
Maybe you'll get some ideas like I did. Enjoy! A Day in the Life of Laura Silva
Friday, October 1, 2010
Left Brain, Right Brain or Switch Hitter? Take The Test
by Laura Silva in Enhancing Creativity
Ever wondered if you right brained or left brained? If you want to know, just take the test below.
TakeTheTest
Just look at the spinning girl, if she is spinning clockwise, you are more partial to right brain functioning. Whereas if she is spinning counterclockwise, your a left brain operator.
Left Brain Characteristics
Left brained people are characterized by sequential, logical and analytical. They can easily see the path from a to b. Left brainers also communicate directly, via speech or writing and respond very well to verbal directions. They also can focus very easily and pay attention to details.
As learners, left brains tend to understand through lectures, discussion and rationalization. Typcial left brain professions are accountants, lawyers and careers in the area of science.
Right Brain Characteristics
Right brained people are very creative and intuitive. They spend alot of time imagining and dreaming, which helps them create many ideas. Right brainers tend to follow their intuition and be very spontaneous.
People strong in right brain activity tend to shine in careers as artists, entrepreneurs, craftsmen and sales. Right brained people tend to understand new information by stories, diagrams, allegories and metaphors. When communicating, right brained people tend to communicate indirectly by gestures, voice tone. As in its not what they say, but HOW they say it.
Switch Hitters
While there is a good chance you already knew which way you tend to lean, creative or analytical. But here's the real question - can you change the way you see the girl spin? On command?
In baseball, some of the most valuable players are "Switch Hitters", as in they can hit the ball with their right hand or left hand, depending on the pitcher or where they need to hit the ball.
If you are one of the lucky few who knows how to control which hemisphere of the brain to use for specific tasks, consider yourself a switch hitter. People with this skill know that when they need to focus and rationalize, they need to operate from their left brain space, then can switch into a creative state of mind when needed.
The truth is, we all tend to lean towards one dominate side, but we CAN train ourselves to be switch hitters. For more on how to develop creativity check out this Finer Minds blog post.
So I'm just wondering about our Silva community:
Are you left dominated or right? Did the results of the test above surprise you?
Can you 'switch hit'?
Ever wondered if you right brained or left brained? If you want to know, just take the test below.
TakeTheTest
Just look at the spinning girl, if she is spinning clockwise, you are more partial to right brain functioning. Whereas if she is spinning counterclockwise, your a left brain operator.
Left Brain Characteristics
Left brained people are characterized by sequential, logical and analytical. They can easily see the path from a to b. Left brainers also communicate directly, via speech or writing and respond very well to verbal directions. They also can focus very easily and pay attention to details.
As learners, left brains tend to understand through lectures, discussion and rationalization. Typcial left brain professions are accountants, lawyers and careers in the area of science.
Right Brain Characteristics
Right brained people are very creative and intuitive. They spend alot of time imagining and dreaming, which helps them create many ideas. Right brainers tend to follow their intuition and be very spontaneous.
People strong in right brain activity tend to shine in careers as artists, entrepreneurs, craftsmen and sales. Right brained people tend to understand new information by stories, diagrams, allegories and metaphors. When communicating, right brained people tend to communicate indirectly by gestures, voice tone. As in its not what they say, but HOW they say it.
Switch Hitters
While there is a good chance you already knew which way you tend to lean, creative or analytical. But here's the real question - can you change the way you see the girl spin? On command?
In baseball, some of the most valuable players are "Switch Hitters", as in they can hit the ball with their right hand or left hand, depending on the pitcher or where they need to hit the ball.
If you are one of the lucky few who knows how to control which hemisphere of the brain to use for specific tasks, consider yourself a switch hitter. People with this skill know that when they need to focus and rationalize, they need to operate from their left brain space, then can switch into a creative state of mind when needed.
The truth is, we all tend to lean towards one dominate side, but we CAN train ourselves to be switch hitters. For more on how to develop creativity check out this Finer Minds blog post.
So I'm just wondering about our Silva community:
Are you left dominated or right? Did the results of the test above surprise you?
Can you 'switch hit'?
Monday, August 9, 2010
From Infinity to Infinity - Microcosm to Macrocosm
In the Silva Life System we have an exercise called The Fantastic Voyage. It's an awesome experience!
This video may give you a sense of how it feels to take this voyage.
I'm looking forward to sharing it with you.
This video may give you a sense of how it feels to take this voyage.
I'm looking forward to sharing it with you.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Is Positive Thinking (Mental Housecleaning) Really Important?
Do you ever think of the importance of your thoughts? If you're a Silva Basic or Life System Grad you'll remember our discussion of Mental Housecleaning and I wonder if you've thought of it since then.
You may remember statements such as "Mental Housecleaning is waaaay more than positive thinking yet it includes positive thinking."
A video can have more power than words. Take a look and enjoy...
You may remember statements such as "Mental Housecleaning is waaaay more than positive thinking yet it includes positive thinking."
A video can have more power than words. Take a look and enjoy...
Is the Law of Attraction Working?
Many people express excitement when they learn about the Law of Attraction...identify what you want in life, think about it, visualize it, and soon it's yours. Simple, right?
This is exciting stuff, isn't it! However many of those same people become deflated if their goals and dreams aren't manifested quickly.
They may be dooming their dreams if they think it's magic and they don't need to participate in the process...take action. Patience is important as is persistance.
Soon they join the ranks of the disillusioned...those people who say "It doesn't work." or "It doesn't work for me."
They're right and they're wrong.
First they're right because anything, any process or technique, cannot work if you quit working it. Being disillusioned or doubtful indicates you're no longer 'working' it.
Secondly they're wrong because the Law of Attraction always works. Yes, I said always. It cannot not work. That would be like expecting gravity to work sometimes!
The 'trick' is to discover where the original idea (desire) came from...or maybe I should say why it came...then notice the thoughts that ride around in the back of the mind. Are those thoughts desperate, needy, panicky, doubting, fearful? If so, then they'll manifest more of what they currently have.
For instance, if I desperately need a new car and don't have the resources to meet that need then I may start focusing on having a new car. However, it's very likely that the underlying feelings of desperation and need will keep on manifesting. Why? They're probably more powerful!
Compare that situation with a car collector who decides he'd like to have a new car...whether for his collection or personal use. We'll assume his situation is that of a person who has the resources to buy as he chooses. He decides he desires a particular car, starts shopping around, narrows the choices, and then buys his car. There's never a doubt in his mind that this car will be his..soon!
When using the Law of Attraction successfully come to your project with the assurance, the knowing, of the car collector.
Happy driving to us all!
This is exciting stuff, isn't it! However many of those same people become deflated if their goals and dreams aren't manifested quickly.
They may be dooming their dreams if they think it's magic and they don't need to participate in the process...take action. Patience is important as is persistance.
Soon they join the ranks of the disillusioned...those people who say "It doesn't work." or "It doesn't work for me."
They're right and they're wrong.
First they're right because anything, any process or technique, cannot work if you quit working it. Being disillusioned or doubtful indicates you're no longer 'working' it.
Secondly they're wrong because the Law of Attraction always works. Yes, I said always. It cannot not work. That would be like expecting gravity to work sometimes!
The 'trick' is to discover where the original idea (desire) came from...or maybe I should say why it came...then notice the thoughts that ride around in the back of the mind. Are those thoughts desperate, needy, panicky, doubting, fearful? If so, then they'll manifest more of what they currently have.
For instance, if I desperately need a new car and don't have the resources to meet that need then I may start focusing on having a new car. However, it's very likely that the underlying feelings of desperation and need will keep on manifesting. Why? They're probably more powerful!
Compare that situation with a car collector who decides he'd like to have a new car...whether for his collection or personal use. We'll assume his situation is that of a person who has the resources to buy as he chooses. He decides he desires a particular car, starts shopping around, narrows the choices, and then buys his car. There's never a doubt in his mind that this car will be his..soon!
When using the Law of Attraction successfully come to your project with the assurance, the knowing, of the car collector.
Happy driving to us all!
Monday, June 28, 2010
How to Develop Intuition
Since linking this blog to facebook I've had some inquiries about what Silva is. Give me a half hour and I can give you a pretty good answer!
The bottom line is intuition...Here's a short video overview of some of the things we do to develop our intuition. Enjoy!
The bottom line is intuition...Here's a short video overview of some of the things we do to develop our intuition. Enjoy!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
5 Levels of Manifestation
A short, "meaty" video I believe you'll enjoy!
This video is originally provided through Finer Minds LLC
This video is originally provided through Finer Minds LLC
Thursday, May 20, 2010
How to Make Your Quality of Life Better and Better
I'd like to share a story about a young lady's experience.
My daughter "was having some problems feeling left out and not part of her friends’ group so I told her to use mirror of the mind to create the relationships she would like to have. The next day after school, she greeted me full of excitement and said “it worked”. As soon as she got to school that morning, her friend (who has been ignoring her for several months) ran up to her with a big hug and included her in lots of activities. In PE that day she was asked by 2 different teams to join them in the beginning of picking their players (usually she is one of the last people to get picked). That was so exciting to see that it worked so easy for her and gives her a great foundation on the power of Silva.
Thank you."
What a delight! To know that there's a way to change life experiences for the better...for all concerned...is awesome. I'm thrilled to be part of relaying that information and more.
Better & Better every day in every way,
Barbara
My daughter "was having some problems feeling left out and not part of her friends’ group so I told her to use mirror of the mind to create the relationships she would like to have. The next day after school, she greeted me full of excitement and said “it worked”. As soon as she got to school that morning, her friend (who has been ignoring her for several months) ran up to her with a big hug and included her in lots of activities. In PE that day she was asked by 2 different teams to join them in the beginning of picking their players (usually she is one of the last people to get picked). That was so exciting to see that it worked so easy for her and gives her a great foundation on the power of Silva.
Thank you."
What a delight! To know that there's a way to change life experiences for the better...for all concerned...is awesome. I'm thrilled to be part of relaying that information and more.
Better & Better every day in every way,
Barbara
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
"Philosopher's Notes" (Brian Johnson) Review of a Silva classic
Check out this 10 minute video review of "The Silva Mind Control Method of Mental Dynamics" by Burt Goldman and Jose Silva. Really good!
Review done by Brian Johnson at PhilosophersNotes
Review done by Brian Johnson at PhilosophersNotes
Benefits of Meditation
Many people tell me they have no time to meditate, no time to "go to their level". Perhaps you believe you're too busy to take the time for meditation.
If you're busy busy busy, it may surprise you to know that when you take time for meditation
- you get more accomplished in your day
- your mental abilities are sharper
- you're more relaxed
- you get along with others more easily and work more effectively
- you're more perceptive about what needs to be done and what others expect of you and
- you feel a lot better - mentally and physically - than days when you leave meditation out.
Sounds like a good investment to me!
Remember: 3 times a day is best (soon after arising in the morning, after lunch, soon before going to bed. Even a few minutes is good and 15 minutes is an excellent use of your time.Thursday, March 18, 2010
Terrific book
As many of you know, I read a lot. A lot! Sometimes the books are the newest releases and some are older. Right now I'm rereading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho...an older realease. Every part of this book - from Intro to end - is interesting, intriguing and thought provoking.
My attention returned to this book because of the 'new' exercises in the Silva Intuition Training: connect to Source and finding your life purpose. Coelho calls life purpose our personal legend, food for thought in itself.
In the introduction he speaks of four obstacles. The first is that from our earliest childhood we're told that everything we desire to do is impossible for us. It makes sense. Parents love us and desire to protect us and as very young people there are many things we physically do not have the capacity to do.
Whether from their love or fear for us our parents (and others) tell us many times that we "cannot do that" and as we grow up hearing this, it compounds with layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. Our earliest 'dreams' and desires become covered with these layers. But those dreams are still there.
Mental Housecleaning, discussed in the Silva Life System, is one of the best ways I know to begin unlayering ourselves. As we think of our various words, phrases, outlooks and beliefs - layers within - we have the opportunity to cast off those layers.
One example is 'judgement words' such as should, have to, must, need to and others. Oh...if I had a nickel for every time I've heard one of those words/phrases. I would love to have a nickel for every time I've said them to myself, my sons, anyone! In the class we talked about Where did they originate, How they impact our lives and Do we agree with them. Certainly worth attention! In fact we may agree with them and because it's conscious agreement, we're empowered. If we don't agree, kick it to the curb. Throw off that layer, that restraint. Either way, empowerment and freedom are the rewards!
Becoming lighter and freer with fewer layers to smother our dreams, we begin to get a glimpse of them once more. Casting off more layers draws our dreams closer and closer until one day the sun shines brightly upon them.
Or is it that the light shines FROM them into our awareness!
More later...
My attention returned to this book because of the 'new' exercises in the Silva Intuition Training: connect to Source and finding your life purpose. Coelho calls life purpose our personal legend, food for thought in itself.
In the introduction he speaks of four obstacles. The first is that from our earliest childhood we're told that everything we desire to do is impossible for us. It makes sense. Parents love us and desire to protect us and as very young people there are many things we physically do not have the capacity to do.
Whether from their love or fear for us our parents (and others) tell us many times that we "cannot do that" and as we grow up hearing this, it compounds with layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. Our earliest 'dreams' and desires become covered with these layers. But those dreams are still there.
Mental Housecleaning, discussed in the Silva Life System, is one of the best ways I know to begin unlayering ourselves. As we think of our various words, phrases, outlooks and beliefs - layers within - we have the opportunity to cast off those layers.
One example is 'judgement words' such as should, have to, must, need to and others. Oh...if I had a nickel for every time I've heard one of those words/phrases. I would love to have a nickel for every time I've said them to myself, my sons, anyone! In the class we talked about Where did they originate, How they impact our lives and Do we agree with them. Certainly worth attention! In fact we may agree with them and because it's conscious agreement, we're empowered. If we don't agree, kick it to the curb. Throw off that layer, that restraint. Either way, empowerment and freedom are the rewards!
Becoming lighter and freer with fewer layers to smother our dreams, we begin to get a glimpse of them once more. Casting off more layers draws our dreams closer and closer until one day the sun shines brightly upon them.
Or is it that the light shines FROM them into our awareness!
More later...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Microcosm to Macrocosm
For Graduates of the Silva Life System and the Silva Intuition Training, in particular, this may seem familiar. The pics are fabulous.
http://centripetalnotion.com/2006/09/04/00:23:27/
Perhaps when you go to your level today, you go exploring. Enjoy!
Better & Better,
Barbara
http://centripetalnotion.com/2006/09/04/00:23:27/
Perhaps when you go to your level today, you go exploring. Enjoy!
Better & Better,
Barbara
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