What IS The Silva Method?

After 20 years’ experience as a Silva Method instructor the best way I’ve found to answer that question is by pointing out…

First, The SilvaMethod provides an easy, reliable process to attain the Alpha level of brainwave functioning. This is also known as the Meditative State. In Silva, we refer to it as ‘our Level’. 

This is the ‘level’ of brain/mind activity where we function at our strongest. It’s good to know that we can attain this brainwave state at will; for as long as we choose; and we leave it when we choose.

Then we have a collection of superb multi-use mental techniques - I think of them as mental tools - from which we can create our dreams and desires i.e. Manifest!

We use these mental tools while in the Alpha, or Meditative, brainwave state.  This we call  ‘programming’.

As I often say in classes, the limits of these tools are only your own needs / desires and your own creativity.

After ending a programming session, it’s time to take physical action which is in line with the programming you’ve done.

Because there are practice exercises included in the course, after taking The Silva Method you have greater skill using your meditative state – your Level – and you have a powerful set of multi-use mental tools for designing the life of your dreams.

You're going to love it!

Better Bette and Better,
Barbara Hawkins

How You Can Visualize Better & Better

Not everyone 'visualizes' ... at least not in the same way.

Generally there are 3 primary ways people process information: visually (visualization), auditorily (sound) and kinesthetically which is 'knowing'. The last is the most challenging because it's difficult for many people to trust themselves, their knowing ability.

This comes up often in Silva classes and we talk about methods for increasing our "creation sensing".

Most people focus their intention on being able to literally visualize. However it's great to practice enough that you understand how YOU perceive and process the world ... how you can use your personal processing methods to 'program' (another Silva term) your goals, your future.

In this video Burt Goldman gives good information and ways to improve your visualization ability. If you have questions, please EmailMe .

Enjoy!

How to Build Your Visualization Skill

So many people say that can't or don't "see" anything when they close their eyes and intend to use their visualization and imagination abilities. It comes up in virtually every class!

* Sometimes they say that it's "just dark or black in there". These people often benefit from 'turning on their interior light'. (Yes, it does work for some people!

*  Other people improve their skill through memory recall:  remember a recent important event ... like a birthday or anniversary ... then imagine something about it is different.

*  This video highlights another method.

Which works best for you?  Please leave your comment.

7 Steps To Connect To Your Creative Spirit Using Music, Visualization and Meditation

by FinerMinds Team April 26, 2010

Editor’s Note: Back by popular demand, Paul Hoffman is here to share an amazing article about creative guidance for success. Using meditation, music, and visualization, anyone can discover the power of their creative spirit.


Paul is also giving away 2 free amazing audio tracks that combine growth and fun (and some dancing) together for joyful and effortless personal creation. You’ll love these tracks so much, I bet you’ll listen to them on loop. They’re totally FREE. Just download them here >>
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Connect To Your Creative Spirit Through Music, Visualization and Meditation

By Paul Hoffman of Success Songs

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. — Henry David Thoreau

The great OM of life, that natural willingness for you to open your soul to what is seeking to be expressed comes from a committed consciousness that is developed by learning how to master your mind. It is in those moments of curious inflection that the call of your soul speaks loudest so that you hear the calling of your heart.

Each day you are on an adventure. The discoverer in you is seeking to cross the bridges of possibility so that the opportunity to live life from your higher purpose ignites a passion in you to step out of the shadows of uncertainty and into the light of flowness. Your Creative Flow!!!

So What Is Creativity?

Creativity is the messenger of imagination, the kindred spirit of inspiration, the guiding light of unlimited ideas and the energetic vibration that encourages you to flow and go.

There is an inherent presence in you, a dynamic uniqueness that is guided by an individuality that is awakened when you awaken to your Creative Spirit. Being in the flow of your creativity heightens your awareness so that Your Voice Of Action™ communicates in a way so you know all things are possible and you welcome the sense of surprise into your life.

The Power Of Autosuggestion

Your mind works in the ways you tell it to. You create your reality. The food of genius you put into it will harvest according to the mindset you operate from. When you are a witness to your inner dialogue you harness the power of your creative spirit. Therefore, it is important that you cultivate a process so you can listen to what you say to yourself.

Freeing himself of a drug and alcohol addiction, Paul Hoffman turned his life around because of his commitment to bringing himself back to the core of his being.

With the discovery of meditation, he was reconnected to the real source of his inspiration, which was his heart. He had rediscovered himself and re-ignited his passion for music.

He is now dedicated to helping others through meditation and music and works to shift people at a subconscious level, empowering and motivating the listener to wake-up to who they really are. He is also the co-author of the widely acclaimed Sonic Access Meditation program with Paul Scheele.

Napoleon Hill said: ”Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.”

So when you align your inner mind with the magic of your soul and the calling of your heart your outer desires will be created from the realm of your greatness!

7 Steps To Create Harmony With Your Creative Spirit

I recommend creating a daily ritual to help guide you through the constant egoic chatter of the day so that what you create comes from your Action Voice.™ This is a process I do each day and always before I am ready to make a strategic decision so I am in harmony with my creative spirit.

1.Quiet The Mind

2.Connect To Your Heart

3.Listen To Your Intuition

4.Free Your Imagination

5.Visualize Your Outcomes

6.Capture Your Inspirations

7.Communicate In Your Action Voice™

You see the way you communicate to yourself will create the energy that you act from. Living in your genius is a practice that is accompanied by a focused discipline to connect to your higher purpose. You must be available to your inner core of brilliance in order to cultivate that practice.

Your Heart’s Invitation To You

There is a transparency in you that invites you to fulfill the calling of your heart. It is present in every moment of your day as a timeless extension of your beingness always looking for ways to seek out and to express the picture of your soul.

As Michelangelo said “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” That is the same as giving yourself permission to live unencumbered by any thoughts of lack and limitation and to step into the true power that resides within you so you create magic in every moment.

Just remember all great ideas came from a thought that someone thought up. And not everyone thought some of those ideas were worth anything but as Albert Camus said: “All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.” Courage is infectious and creativity is contagious.

Connect To Your Creative Spirit Through Music, Meditation, & Visualization

There are many ways to connect to your Creative Spirit. Some of us experience the awakening of the Creative Spirit through intuitive journeys while others connect to it through the use of other creative pathways such as Music, Meditation and Visualization.

Music stirs the soul. Meditation quiets the mind freeing the heart to seek and express the passion within and Visualization allows you to see the end in mind so that you can create a plan to manifest your desires.

Music, Meditation and Visualization will open your success chakras, connect you to your passion, awaken your sense of purpose, strengthen your mind and offer you a pristine view of your soul. The greatest minds in the world used these disciplines to enhance their creativity.

Focused Intention

One of the pre-requisites to tapping into your creativity is to have a practice of focused intention. Mark Twain said “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Being certain of mind creates clarity and releases any barriers to your success.

Music frees the mind. How many times have you been stuck in a particular place in your thinking and when you put on a piece of music you all of a sudden seemed to think in ways that resulted in a renewed sense of enthusiasm. You begin to look for new ways to solve challenges.

Listening to a piece of music that stirs the imagination evokes an emotion of expansiveness, encourages the taking of positive actions and ignites feelings of joy. It will ready you for the most complex tasks you may have thought were impossible, creating a direct path to unleashing your creativity.

Music also evokes positive feelings in an instant giving you an emotional shift in consciousness. It is almost as if an internal switch is flipped and you all of a sudden feel a heightened sense of awareness for what you are doing.
As Plato said “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” Music opens the door to an infinite view of creativity that speaks passionately to the calling of your heart.

Meditation produces a state of calm that will ready you for a renewed sense of inspiration. Meditation invites your imagination to open your mind in ways that produce insights of opportunities and beliefs of possibility. Many great thinkers used meditation to produce extraordinary results.

Having a daily meditation practice readies you for your day. Knowing that the mind processes so much information having a practice to filter out the bits that distract you will keep you focused. When you master your mind you create a flow of thought that will be in alignment with your vision in the moment. Meditation helps you do that.

As John Maynard Keynes said: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” Meditation releases any difficulty of thought and ushers in a landscape of what is truly possible for you to create.

And finally learn to Visualize your outcomes. How you view your day, what mental picture you hold for it determines the outcomes you will create. The greatest inventions and discoveries were made by those who had a mental picture of what they wanted to do and then thought big and bold and took action. They welcomed being surprised.

Your mind is alive and always in search of the ideas that will bring into reality the results you are seeking. As you look out over the landscape of your day you begin to see an oasis of opportunity. The more vivid the picture, the more powerful the urge to make it your reality and the more you will listen to the rhythm of your soul.

Holding a clear vision brings into focus the seeds of creativity that are in the garden of your mind. You then begin to operate from a big thinking mentality and an abundant point of view. You see the unseen!

Einstein said: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

However your creativity shows up, know that you have the power to step into the magic of your life by bridging the awesomeness of your essence with the spirit of your authenticity.

You Are Already Being Guided To Fulfillment

All around you an energetic vibration of prosperity guides you towards the fulfillment of your dreams. Savor the abundance of your imagination and the unlimited creative spirit within you. One of my mantras is: “If what you dream wasn’t already inside of you how could you even dream it.” Think about that. You have it all right where you are. Right NOW!

Some of you may ask, am I creative? Some of you even proclaim to yourself that you are not creative. You may even fear the creativity in you. Your creativity is always present and always available to you. Remember everything you do is based on a creative expression that you think up. It is an idea in your mind, a blossoming of your spirit.

The creative spirit within you connects you to your greatness and your potential to spread your awesomeness in all you do. Creativity is the fuel that sparks your imagination. It is the wave of discovery that opens you up to stepping into the light of your genius. It is the all-knowing power that sets you apart from mediocrity. It is the calling card of your individuality.

Do not be held back by limiting beliefs. Free your mind so your soul opens up to the magnificence of each moment. Connect to the unlimited power in you to have it all. Einstein said “If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. “

There is a vast reservoir of creativity within you. Listen to it so that you begin to create your life the way you want it to look like. Your thoughts are dripping with possibility. Follow your glow of brilliance. And begin to see that where you are has always been where you wanted to be.

A large part of my life has manifested through meditation, music, and visualization. That’s why I’m so excited to share with you two amazing audio tracks that takes these three mediums to give you the inspiration, boost, and creativity to turn your intentions into reality.

I love FinerMinds so I’m giving them to you for FREE. Just click here to download them

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Spiritual Cleansing For Astral Success – Special Chakra Training

Taken from a post on "The Art of Astral Projection" blog

by Astral Projection Team

Your car limps along on a dirty engine, and your physical body risks death when your arteries are clogged. These are two great ways to illustrate one very important thing to remember when it comes to 'operating' your astral body. If you want your astral body working at full capacity, then you want to be sure its engine (the chakra system) is working like a well-oiled machine.

Blocks in your chakras amount to a weak and unbalanced system. When this happens, you can't raise your kundalini. And if you can't raise your kundalini, you can't power your astral body.

Spiritual cleansing the chakra system is what we're talking about. In this audio, Steve G. Jones explains the energies related to each of the chakras and the importance of keeping them open and clear.

Go to http://www.theartofastralprojection.com/blog/special-chakra-training to hear the talk that accompanies this post. It's worth your time.

Now, if you're ready for a powerful spiritual cleanse of your chakras, it's time to meet Carol Tuttle. Carol is a Master Energy Healer who specialises in cleaning up the chakras. She'll be doing an online training this Tuesday, giving you simple, hands-on tools to cleanse and activate your own chakra system.

For more information on this free training with Carol, go here.

Here's a few highlights of the training:

1. Get to know your Chakras
What would your Chakras say if they were sufficiently opened and energized? Here you’ll learn how to understand the nature of your Chakras, so you can recognize when they’re in an optimal state and work on them accordingly.

2. Connect your Chakras
Your Chakras work best when they’re energetically communicating with each other. Here you’ll learn a few simple steps to connect them so they can start working efficiently together.

3. Activate your Psychic Compass
Your Third Eye Chakra holds the key to your inherent intuition, creativity and psychic ability. Here you’ll learn a potent exercise to open it, so you can start enjoying a life enriched by powerful and reliable psychic guidance.

4. The energy of Money Shift
Learn why your current perception and energy of money may be unsuitable for today’s economic climate, and what you must do to shift it so you and your family can prosper and contribute.

5. The energy of Money Meditation
Join Carol on a guided meditation to open your 4th Chakra, and shift your energy of money into one suitable for the world’s current economic situation. You’ll shake off any feeling of financial helplessness, and find yourself empowered to make more and contribute more for your society.

6. The Tools of the Trade
Chakra Healing is practiced using a vast variety of healing modalities. Here you’ll learn about some of the most widely used ones, including meditation, yoga, gemstone therapy, visualization and breathing techniques, and how they can fit into your personal practice.

If you're ready to cleanse and power your astral body, just sign up right here for Carol's Chakra Healing Online Training this Tuesday and get ready to purr along in the astral.

Success Using the Silva Method

Certain principles apply to achieving success with all of the techniques in the Silva Method.

There are seminars and home study courses to help you in every area of your life, from health and relationships to business and learning and sports and more.

Common factors that are necessary for success with all of the techniques, in all areas of life, are:

     Functioning at the alpha level, and
     using visualization and
     imagination.

Fortunately, Jose Silva did not have good visualization...Most people don't.

Our research indicates that about 10 percent of people have good mental images spontaneously when they think of something. Another 10 percent can quickly create a mental image when they think of something.

The rest of us have to take time to recall what the object looks like. If you have completed the Silva Method Basic Lecture Series or the Silva UltraMind ESP System, then you have gone through the process that Jose Silva and most of us go through. (blogger's note: this also would include the Silva Life System and Intuition Training)

Remember in the Projection to Human Anatomy Conditioning, your instructor asks you to recall someone you know very well, whose face you can recall with the least effort. Then you are instructed to recall the person's features, one by one: The hair, the forehead, the skin tone, the eyes, the cheeks, the character of the face. Have you ever wondered: If this is someone whose face I can recall with the least effort, then why do I need to recall all of those details?

Because most of us - 80 percent of us - need to recall those details, to recall what the person looks like, in order to visualize the person.

Most of the ultra successful people who write the "success books" are among the 10 percent who are great natural visualizers. The problem is: They assume that all the rest of us function the same way they do.

Fortunately, Jose Silva functioned like most of us do, so he understood what is necessary in order to achieve success with our programming in the subjective dimension.

The most important factor is the first one we mentioned: Functioning at the alpha level. You can learn that by practicing the Silva Centering Exercise with the procedures that Juan Silva recommends in his great article on Deepening in the Guidance for Grads section of the SIGA.org web site.

Once at your level, you can use visualization and imagination to program to correct problems and improve conditions...provided that you use visualization and imagination at the alpha level. That's the real key to success.

Here is an article from Jose Silva about using these important and valuable tools.

Silva Method techniques will bring about changes for the better in every area of your life: health, relationships, business, learning, self-confidence - anything you desire to change.

Why do they work so well? What mechanisms are involved in making these changes?

The key is functioning in the subjective (mental) dimension. When you enter your level, you are then functioning in the invisible world of the mind, and you are able to make changes in the visible world of the body.

The tools of the subjective dimension are visualization and imagination. They are two faculties of genius.

Let's take a close look at these tools so you will understand exactly what they are and how to use them in the spiritual dimension to make the needed changes.

Remember that it is important to use visualization and imagination in the subjective dimension, that is, at your level. Many books tell you to visualize your goals, but if they do not teach you a method for doing so in the subjective dimension, then this will do you little good.

Visualization is memory. Visualization is remembering what something looks like. Visualization is a receiving mechanism. In the subjective dimension, you receive a mental image of what something looks like.

If your mental image is not as clear as you would like it, simply recall what the subject looks like. Recalling what something looks like is visualization. Recall the details and the colors.

Imagination is a creative process. With imagination, you create a mental image of something you have not seen previously. With imagination, you create whatever you desire.

When you create something in the subjective dimension, with your imagination, then it actually exists - in the subjective dimension - and can be perceived by other people when they are functioning in the subjective dimension.

Everything must first be created in the subjective dimension; then it can manifest in the physical (objective) dimension also.

Imagination is a transmitting mechanism. With imagination, you can transmit your desired end result to the physical dimension.

There is no time or space in the subjective dimension. When you create something, it exists as of that moment. But the physical dimension does have time and space, so it may take time before your desires manifest in physics.

Visualization is the receiving mechanism, imagination is the transmitting mechanism. How do you put these to use?

You can use the 3-Scenes Technique or the Mirror of the Mind Technique.

For the 3-Scenes Technique, use visualization to receive (recall) a metal image of the situation as it exists now, the problem. Then go to the 2nd Scene, to your left (towards the future in the subjective dimension) and visualize whatever you are doing to correct the problem. Then with your imagination, create and transmit to the physical dimension the desired end result, your goal, in the 3rd scene, farthest to your left.

With the Mirror of the Mind, use visualization to receive (recall) a metal image of the situation as it exists now, the problem, in the blue framed mirror. Then erase the problem image, move the mirror to your left (the future in the subjective dimension) and change the frame to white - and with your imagination create and transmit an image of the solution to the physical dimension the desired end result, your goal.

Use this same technique to create better health, better relationships, a better job or increased business, better grades, any traits or characteristics you desire for yourself - anything at all that you want to have, to do, or to be.

You can use the same technique to help other people. First, recall (receive information) about the existing situation (the problem), then use your imagination to create a solution (goal) and transmit it to the physical dimension. Just be certain you do your programming in the subjective dimension, while at your level.

In the future, when you think of your project, visualize (recall) the goal you created with your imagination in the subjective dimension. Take it for granted that the solution already exists, and is being transmitted to the physical dimension so it can manifest in the physical world-of-the-body dimension.

This is what is meant by the phrase "Pray believing you have already received." Our way of saying it is to "Program in the future in a past tense sense."

Take it for granted, and you will get your results.

provided by SIGA