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Welcome to the first chapter of our nine-part multimedia e-book on understanding and
using the power of your mind to create a better, happier, more fulfilling life. Let's begin with a question. Imagine how you would feel if you had it all... the business fulfillment, the loving relationships, vibrant health, creative expression, abundant friendships, a skyrocketing career.
starting a loving family writing a book owning a beautiful 3-bedroom home in the country running a marathon spending 2 years abroad with the Peace Corps earning your first one million dollars recovering from a life-threatening illness No matter what your definition is, it's important to dream big and set a goal of what you're seeking to accomplish. Once you know what you want, the next step is to manifest it into your life. This is what this training program is all about.
Here's what you will learn over the next few days:
How to reach deep levels of meditation with supreme ease. How to use affirmations to create immediate attitude shifts. How to accelerate healing and achieve vibrant health. How to develop your intuition. The art of creative visualization to manifest dreams. How to create a life plan. The art of goal setting and thinking big. This program was developed with the purpose of reminding you of the latent powers that lie within you; and inspiring you to begin to use them. I use the word remind because if you found this program you're probably aware of these abilities. But like most people, you have waited - procrastinated in learning to use them. You will receive nine lessons over the next few weeks. A new lesson will be sent to you every few days. Each lesson will contain an explanation of a new technique.
The techniques will get more advanced with each new lesson.
By breaking this program into several fragments and spreading them out over a few weeks we allow you to retain and understand the material presented better. This program will show you how to tap into your latent mental abilities using not just written text but also specialized audio recordings developed by Jose Silva. These recordings are designed to guide you into a state of deep, focused meditation. During this meditation you will be wide awake but your body will be asleep. Your subconscious mind will be brought to the conscious level and you will be in full control over your mental abilities and thoughts. You can use this time to program your mind to accomplish anything you desire. This is the Silva UltraMind System.
Group 2: did 75% physical training, 25% mental training. Group 3: did 50% physical training, 50% mental training. Group 4: did 25% physical training, 75% mental training. What the researchers found was that group 4 - the group with the most mental training - had shown significantly greater improvement than group 3. Likewise, group 3 showed more improvement than group 2, and group 2 showed more improvement than group 1. The results were astonishing. Who would expect that athletes training mentally would be able to advance further than their counterparts who were training physically? Garfield said, "During mental rehearsal, athletes create mental images of the exact movements they want to emulate in their sport. Use of this skill substantially increases the effectiveness of goal-setting, which up until then had been little more than a dull listing procedure."
If mental exercises and visualization could have such a profound impact on athletes, what kind of impact could it have on you?
Can you use the same principle to improve your attitudes, confidence and skills? Could it impact your learning ability; your golf swing; your ability to shed weight and stick to a diet? The answer is yes. We will explore these topics in a later chapter and show you visualization techniques you can use to improve the quality of your life.
and only being tried on people with a life expectancy of at least three months. Wright begged so hard, however, that Klopfer decided to give him one injection on Friday, though he secretly suspected Wright would not last the weekend. Dr. Klopfer was in for a big surprise. On the following Monday, Klopfer found Wright out of bed and walking around. Klopfer reported that his tumors had "melted like snowballs on a hot stove" and were half their original size. This was a far more rapid decrease in size than even the strongest X-ray treatments could have accomplished. Ten days after Wright's first Krebiozen treatment, he left the hospital, and as far as his doctors could tell, with no signs of cancer. When he entered the hospital, he had needed an oxygen mask to breathe, but when he left he was well enough to fly his own plane at 12,000 feet with no discomfort. Wright remained well for about two months, but then articles began to appear asserting that Krebiozen actually had no effect on cancer of the lymph nodes. Wright, who was rigidly logical and scientific in his thinking, became very depressed, suffered a relapse, and was readmitted to the hospital. This time his physician decided to try an experiment. Dr. Klopfer told Wright that Krebiozen was every bit as effective as it had seemed, but that some of the initial supplies of the drug had deteriorated during shipping. He explained, however, that he had a new highly-concentrated version of the drug and could treat Wright with this. Of course, the physician did not have a new version of the drug and intended to inject Wright with nothing more than plain sterile water.
Again the results were dramatic. Tumor masses melted, chest fluid vanished, and Wright was quickly back on his feet and feeling great. Yet he had been injected with nothing more than sterile water.
Wright remained symptom-free for another two months, but then the American Medical Association announced that a nationwide study of Krebiozen had found the drug worthless in the treatment of cancer. This time Wright's faith was completely shattered. His cancer blossomed anew and he died two days later. Wright's story is tragic, but it contains a powerful message: When we are fortunate enough to bypass our disbelief and tap the healing forces within us, we can cause tumors to melt away overnight. The patient's mind alone, independent of the value of the medication, produced his recovery. This event proves that your mind is so powerful that it can literally bring wonderful or tragic events to bear within days. Most people do not learn how to tap into and control this powerful force.
Many people do have their minds working for them, but in negative ways. Doctors call this psychosomatic illness - an illness caused by a person's negative belief system. In this course we will teach you how to create positive belief systems and how you can use visualization to accelerate your body's rate of healing and recovery.
In other words, can the mind create coincidences and influence reality?
People all around the world have experienced this in their own lives and will say that the answer is yes - your world can be shaped by your thoughts and beliefs. The following story describes one such incident - how one man discovered the power of his mind in creating coincidences. He went on to use this ability to become so successful that his work is almost a household name in America. For the purpose of this story, let's call this man Scott. His full name will not be revealed until the end to make this story more intriguing. This story was told in a book Scott wrote in 1998. In the early 1980s, Scott had heard of a process called affirmations from a friend. The process he learned was simple.
Visualize what you want and write it down fifteen times in a row, once a day, until you obtain it.
Scott was told that the process did not require any faith or positive thinking for it to work. Even more interesting was the suggestion that the technique would influence the environment directly and not just make you more focused on your goals. In other words, it would spawn amazing coincidences to move you toward your goals. The coincidences could be things that were seemingly unconnected to you and beyond your control. Scott was very left-brained and logical in his thinking. He had his doubts about the process but figured that there was no harm in trying. "Within a few weeks, coincidences started to happen to me." wrote Scott. "Amazing coincidences, strings of them. I won't mention the specific goal I was working on, as it was a private matter, but within a few months the goal was accomplished exactly as I had written it." But Scott was not yet convinced that affirmations helped. Coincidences do happen on their own and Scott considered the test inconclusive.
So Scott picked another goal - to make some gains in the stockmarket. He wrote his affirmation down every day and waited for some inspiration. It came to him in a dream. He woke up one night with the words "Buy Chrysler" repeating in his head. He bought shares in the inspired company during one of its most bleak periods yet it began to rise soon after and he made some good returns on it. He repeated the experiment again and managed to pick another successful company, with stock symbol "Ask". Armed with this confidence in the power of affirmations Scott decided to apply it to a more challenging goal - getting into the highly competitive University of California at Berkeley MBA program.
The problem was that he had already taken the entrance exam, the G.M.A.T, and only hit the 77th percentile score. He knew he needed to be above the 90th percentile to at least have a chance of being accepted. Scott picked the outlandish target of 94 as his goal and again applied the affirmation technique. Despite not being able to go much higher than the 77th percentile in the practice exams Scott was surprised to learn that he did indeed hit the 94th percentile for the G.M.A.T - just as he had written in his affirmations. He graduated with his Berkeley MBA in 1986. A few years later he tried pursuing a more serious goal, that of being a syndicated cartoonist. He knew the odds of his cartoon submission being accepted by a major newspaper were roughly 1 in 10,000. He beat those odds and his cartoon was accepted. He was soon earning a decent living with his cartoon strip but he wanted to achieve something bigger. He decided he wanted the most successful comic strip on the planet. Scott felt that the best measure of "most successful" would be number of books sold.
In June 1996 his book The Dilbert Principle hit the number-one spot on the hardcover nonfiction list of the New York Times. It stayed in the top three all summer. In November his second book, Dogbert's TopSecret Management Handbook, also made the bestseller list, giving Scott the number-one and number-two positions simultaneously for one week. For that brief period of time, Scott indeed had the "most successful" comic strip on the planet. As you may have guessed, the person I'm talking about is Scott Adams, the creator of the highly successful Dilbert comic strip. Scott writes about these experiences with affirmations in his book The Dilbert Future. He does not profess to know why it works but leaves the conclusion to the reader. You can buy Scott Adams' hilarious Dilbert books at any bookstore. Reporters often ask me if I am surprised at the success of the Dilbert comic strip. I definitely would be so, if not for my bizarre experience with affirmations. As it was, I expected it.
Please look out for it. This next email will show you how to establish the correct level of mind to start accomplishing some of the things we discussed in this chapter. We will help you attain this correct level of mind using a powerful guided meditation exercise developed by Jose Silva. You will listen to this exercise through your computer speakers.
Get ready for an exciting experience. Watch out for our next email tomorrow where we'll send you the popular Silva Centering Exercise Audio. The Famous Silva Centering Exercise Download It Now
The Centering Exercise is the Basis for the Entire Silva Training System. It's a Guided Meditation system Jose Silva spent decades perfecting. You'll get to listen to the audio via your computer and the voice of our Narrator, Ed Bernd Jr, will guide you into the Alpha Level. It's a journey you'll love!
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Lesson 2
It took Jose Silva 22 years of research and $500,000 in 1960's monetary value ($2 million in today's value) to develop his famous mind conditioning systems. It all begins with the Silva Centering Exercise. This exercise will guide you to your center brain frequency, the alpha level - the level for deep relaxation. While at your center you will experience the many beneficial effects of deep meditation.
mentally program yourself to change your attitudes kick bad habits practice creative visualization for goal setting enhance creativity and intuition You can experience this powerful relaxation technique right this instant through your computer.
----------------------------The Silva Centering Exercise ----------------------------It took Jose Silva 22 years of research and $500,000 in 1960s monetary value($2 million in today's value) to develop his famous mind conditioning systems. It all begins with the exercise You're about to do. This exercise will guide you to your center brain frequency, the Alpha Level - the level for deep relaxation. While at the Alpha Level, you will experience the many beneficial effects of Meditation. Once You Learn to Reach the Alpha Level, you can use Silva Techniques to: Reduce Stress Speed Up Your Body's Natural Healing Mentally Program Yourself to Change your Attitudes Kick Bad Habits Practice Creative Visualization Get in Touch with Your Intuition
You can start reading the 2-page "How To" Guide immediately by going to the link below. Make sure you reserve 30 mins today or Tomorrow to practice the exercise.
meditation study also showed signs of increased activity in areas of the brain related to positive emotion, as compared to people who did not meditate. CBS News - Aug 27, 2003 People who meditate these days come from all walks of life and aren't necessarily weird New Agers or pretentious actors. Students, lawyers, West Point cadets, athletes, prisoners, and government officials all meditate. It's supposed to help depression, control pain, increase longevity, slow down cancers, invigorate the immune system, and significantly reduce blood pressure. Time magazine recently reported that "meditation can sometimes be used to replace Viagra." Time Magazine - Aug 4, 2003 Not only do studies show that meditation is boosting their immune system, but brain scans suggest that it may be rewiring their brains to reduce stress. It's recommended by more and more physicians as a way to prevent, slow or at least control the pain of chronic diseases like heart conditions, AIDS, cancer and infertility. As you read, meditation provides many benefits even when done by a beginner.
Passive Meditation
All meditation systems, such as Yoga, Zen, Transcendental Meditation (TM), Silva UltraMind and others have similar benefits. By "passively" letting go and going within, we "deactivate" our survival mechanisms and allow our body's natural health and rejuvenation abilities to be activated. Each method has its own way of reaching the inner state of mind, and each has its own goals.
Active Meditation
Jose Silva's techniques allow you to use the relaxed, healthy state of mind that occurs during meditation to solve your day-to-day problems. Silva found that by "actively" utilizing brain languages (kinesthetic, visual, and auditory thought processes), we can use this higher energy state to improve memory and learning skills, change unwanted habits, enhance health, and healing. He also developed techniques to achieve what many people call "tapping the superconscious" to solve problems, reach goals, come up with new ideas and solutions to problems. Some students use the Silva UltraMind System to enhance their spiritual growth. Using such techniques within a meditative state is called "active" meditation.
State
Associated With
Beta
Alpha
7 - 14 cps
Light sleep, meditation, intuition. No Time & Space limitation. Deeper Sleep, Meditation. Deep Sleep. You are unconscious at Delta.
Theta
4 - 7 cps
Delta
0 - 4 cps
There are many benefits of "going to the Alpha level" or meditating. Jose Silva found that people who can remain in the Alpha level while analyzing information have access to more information than those who remain in Beta to do their thinking. Feelings of intuition, creative ideas, inspirational thoughts and ideas come to people while at this Alpha level. Going to Alpha is also good for programming your mind. At the Alpha level you can learn to overcome all kinds of problems, such as insomnia, tension and migraine headaches, bad habits, and much more. You can also program your mind to help you achieve your goals and make your dreams come true. There are formulas for all this and more in the Silva home study program and seminars. During the 25 minutes you remain at Alpha while using the Silva Centering Exercise, you can practice relaxing physically and mentally, and you can imagine yourself succeeding in your projects and achieving your goals. As you can see, there are a lot of benefits to "going to Alpha". Now let's get to learning how to practice the Silva Centering Exercise.
All you need to do is find a comfortable position, preferably sitting up, and close your eyes. When you're ready you can start the audio. When you practice the Silva Centering Exercise, there are three things you need to do while you keep your eyes closed. The Exercise is more than just a relaxation tool - it is also a powerful way to tap into your mind to solve problems, change habits and practice creative visualization. This is what we mean by Dynamic Meditation.
First, you should practice your concentration. Concentration is a basic skill. Concentrate on what the instructor tells you to do via the audio. Second, practice your imagination. We want you to learn how to exaggerate your imagination, because you will be in a better position to control your creative visualization. At the same time, it will keep you active while going through the exercise. By being mentally active, you avoid the tendency to drift off into sleep. Third, you must practice coordinating your physiological relaxation with your mental relaxation. It is easy to go into a mental relaxation. But you must learn to let your body relax too. It takes a little longer for you to relax your body than it does for you to relax your mind. You do not have to maintain a fixed, rigid position. If you have to adjust your body to be comfortable, do so. If you need to scratch an itch, do it. Make yourself comfortable and you will be able to relax better. If you feel uncomfortable for any reason, if you feel that you want to open your eyes, then open your eyes immediately. Tell yourself - mentally or verbally - to relax, that everything is okay. Then when you are relaxed, go back to the beginning of the recording and start over.
Things to Remember
1. When the instructor says to "project" - or "concentrate" - your sense of awareness on your scalp area, that's where you start practicing concentration. Establish what your "awareness" is. Let's pretend, for example, that it is a ray of light. Blue-white light. It is easier for us to focus a ray of light into that area than anything else. 2. Next you are instructed to detect the vibrations in that area, a "feeling of warmth caused by circulation". Naturally, it is the blood circulation we are talking about. Concentrate on trying to feel the pulsations of those vibrations in that area. You may not feel them on your first try, but by the second or third effort, you will. 3. Then you are instructed to "release and completely relax all tensions and ligament pressures from this part of your body". Don't just recite it, concentrate on it, and exaggerate your imagination. How would you imagine your scalp being fully relaxed? Think. Concentrate. Maybe you would feel better imagining your scalp as if there is a warm, wet cloth draped over it. Use your imagination. 4. The instructor will also say positive affirmations such as "every day in every way I am getting better and better". Another affirmation you will hear is "I am now learning to attune my intelligence, and developing my sensing faculties, and learning to project them to different locations". This is an affirmation we use in our seminars to train people to develop ESP. When you combine your physiological relaxation with your mental relaxation you will be much more relaxed at the end of that exercise. The more you practice, the easier it will be to relax completely. Please remember, the secret to success is discipline. Practice makes perfect. This is no different from training your physical body and getting into shape. If you exercise your body only once per month you get very different results than if you exercise daily. The same principle applies when you train and exercise your mind. The more you go into alpha, learn to visualize, relax, and tune into your intuition, the healthier and better your life becomes. Note: You may want to listen to the exercise first so there will be no surprises.
Some Applications
With practice you will also be better able to tap into your intuitive feelings or hunches. It just takes practice, and the knowledge that it is possible and that you can do it. In Silva UltraMind Seminars the majority of participants are able to tap effectively into their intuition by day two of the seminar and perform health case readings on people unknown to them. It is important that you continue to practice the Silva Centering Exercise regularly. We encourage graduates of the UltraMind ESP System to practice it once a week for three months after they graduate. Many of us continue to practice it at least once a week even after that.
Once you have learned to relax in a sitting position, if you want to find a more comfortable position - to stretch out in a nice reclining chair for instance - then do so. First learn to enter deep, healthy levels of mind with conscious awareness - without going to sleep. After you've learned this, then you can enter deep levels even when lying down comfortably, and you can still remain awake for as long as you desire. Now, let's take a quick stretch break and then enjoy the Silva Centering exercise.
As these are instant downloads, You can listen to them while waiting for the CDs from the Home Study Course to arrive by Mail.
In this interview with Jose Silva and his daughter Laura, you'll discover how the Silva System was developed and learn the fascinating story of Jose's early research.
The Alpha Session, developed by Jose Silva and read here by Ed Bernd Jr., will guide you into the Alpha State and allow you 15 minutes of time to practice your Silva Techniques. Throughout the session, the Alpha Sound will play to help you
reach and stay at the Alpha Level. This is the SINGLE MOST REQUESTED SILVA AUDIO.
Burt Goldman is the Most Requested and Awarded Silva Lecturer in History. And the Daisy Pond Exercise is his most requested Technique. Listen to this Beautiful CD and Allow Your Body and Mind to Experience Levels of Relaxation You'll never forget. What makes this Exercise so amazing is how fast and complete the relaxation system works. You'll literally feel like a new person when you complete this audio.
The concept of The Golden Image is based on the power of imagery to affect behavior. The technique involves diminishing the image of things that you wish to rid yourself off and enhancing the image of things that you want to enhance and attract. This is a truly powerful technique that will grant you better control over your life and help you attract the things you need. Developed by top Silva Lecturer Burt Goldman.
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Can Your Mind be Used to Attract the man or woman of your dreams into your life? (Lesson 4) Harness the power of Creative Visualization and Affirmations to shape the life you always dreamed of. (Lesson 4) How to Use Your Mind to Accelerate Healing - it's Easier than You Think! (Lesson 5) How to Use your Intuition to Guide you to make Important Decisions. (Lesson 7) How to Find Greater Fulfillment With Your Career and Achieve More. (Lesson 8) Get Your Life Organized through the Power of Goal Setting. (Lesson 8) The Secret to Using Your Mind to Acquire Wealth - what others courses DO NOT tell You. (Lesson 9) How to Align Your Goals with Your Higher Purpose in Life. (Lesson 9) *This is Our most important lesson*
Lesson 3
Enhancing Creativity
Learn How to Use the Alpha Level to Think, Create, Innovate and Pull Ideas Out of Thin Air!
Welcome to Lesson 3
We hope that you've had an amazing experience listening to The Silva Centering Exercise, where you learned to enter deep levels of relaxation and meditation. This lesson will show you how to open your mind to a flood of creative ideas and inspiration. By simply meditating daily you gain immense life-long health benefits. This is commonly called passive meditation. But there is another type of meditation that we teach at the Silva UltraMind Seminar. We call this active meditation. Rather than going to your alpha level and simply remaining there in a state of relaxed meditation, we teach you to use this level of mind to accomplish anything you desire.
Now the real fun begins. You can use this level of mind to:
gain inspirational ideas and thoughts, program your brain to kick bad habits, accelerate your natural healing process, develop your intuition. You can even use this level of mind to create coincidences to move you toward your goals.
Today, we're going to focus on teaching you how to use this level of mind to gain creative ideas or inspiration.
Perhaps you're looking to write a term paper, create a marketing plan for you business or compose a song - you'll learn how to tap into your inner source of creativity to guide you.
Does your mind function more creatively when you're at the alpha level of mind?
There is surprising evidence for this, both from first-hand experiences and laboratory evidence. Napoleon Hill, the best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich and The Laws of Success believed that the human mind was capable of tapping into universal fields of intelligence to access ideas and inspiration.
He would shut off the lights and ponder on the known factors of the invention on which he was working. He would remain in this position until ideas began to "flash" into his mind in connection with the unknown factors of the invention.
On one occasion, ideas came so fast to Gates that he was forced to write for almost three hours. When the thoughts stopped flowing and he examined his work he found that they contained a minute description of principles that had no parallel among the known data of the scientific world. Moreover the answer to his problem was intelligently presented in those notes. The greatest inventor of our time, Thomas Alva Edison, used a similar technique. Edison was known for taking frequent naps in the middle of the day. It's likely that during these naps he was entering the alpha level. He would often come out of these naps with the solution to problems that had been bugging him. Edison was awarded 1368 distinct patents and invented, among other things, the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the film projector, and the first motion picture. Edison was known to have said, "Ideas come from space. This may seem impossible and hard to believe but it's true. Ideas come from out of space."
write. The story certainly didn't spring from any conscious invention on my part. I just put down what I saw."
Silva Instructor Wingate Paine told us the rest of the story during an instructor training session in Laredo not long after the book became a bestseller. Wingate said that Bach had written the first two-thirds of the book from a "dream-like" experience where a big seagull appeared to him and said, "Take dictation, I have a story for you." But the bird faded away before the completion of the story. Wingate said that Bach told him he did not know how to get the bird to come back so that he could finish the book, until he took the Silva course. Then he knew how to get to that "dream-like" level and how to invite Jonathan Livingston Seagull to this creative level to tell him the rest of the story. Bach said in a Harper's Bazaar article that even before taking the Silva training, he'd come to assume that "there are certain 'hidden' capacities and powers which can be taught. I think there is a terrifically pleasant principle behind existence - do what you love to do and you'll be guided. It's a lot like flying a plane: You have to trust what you can't see." Jonathan Livingston Seagull was an immediate hit. The book was a bestseller, and the movie based on the book was a huge hit. In fact, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the books that Bach wrote afterwards helped to bring about a spiritual awakening on the planet, by helping people to understand and accept their own spirituality.
tended to be the ones with the best success rates at running their business (measured in terms of 5 year profitability growth). Prof. Mihalasky's experiment results are summarized in the table below. Percent Profitability Increase of the CEO's company over the last 5 years Greater than 100% 50% to 99% Below 50% CEO Intuition Test Score Above Chance 81.5% 18.5% 0% Chance 25% 50% 25% Below Chance 27.3% 18.2% 54.5%
Note that the CEOs with the greatest profitability increases (100% or more) also had the greatest number of correct "guesses" in intuition tests. 81.5% of them performed above chance results. On the opposite end, of the CEOs with the poorest results, none scored above chance in the intuition test. Of CEOs with mediocre numbers the results were consistent with statistical chance results.
"One interesting note about this creative solution," Obermeyer continued. "The chemist said that if he had considered this formula on his beta information, he wouldn't have believed it to be a formula the body would accept. He would not have come up with this solution through reason and logic." Here's how you can use this technique.
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Lesson 4
Creative Visualization
How You Can Use the Power of Visualization and Affirmations to Create "Lucky Coincidences"
Welcome to Lesson 4 Is "Luck" Within Your Control?
We now come to the premier techniques for harnessing your mind's power to shape your life and move you towards your dreams and aspirations.
Affirmations Creative Visualization. In our last lesson you learned how to use the alpha level of mind to gain creative ideas and inspiration. You are now ready for the next step. You will learn how to tap into your mind to shape your reality. Perhaps you're looking to be more positive, to stick to your diet, to improve your golf swing or to end a bad habit. We'll show you how you can use affirmations and creative visualization to reprogram your mind and reshape your attitudes and behavior.
It all starts with your imagination. Imagination is the ability to create an idea, a vision or an image of something new.
In creative visualization, we use the power of imagination to create a mental image of what we want to accomplish or obtain.
No matter what your goal, the technique is basically the same. You imagine the desired outcome in your mind. At the same time, you repeat a positive affirmation about the goal. The affirmation is in the present tense. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
We'll look at more of this fascinating evidence in our next lesson which will be on mind-body healing.
What we're going to suggest in this lesson is something even more incredible. Your mind's influence is not just limited to improving your emotions, skills and physical body. Your mind can influence theworld outside your apparent physical control.
In other words, your mind can spawn amazing coincidences to move you towards your goals. The coincidences could be things that were seemingly unconnected to you and beyond your control. The techniques we will teach you do not just make you more focused on your goals. They directly influence your reality. Laboratory evidence pouring out of universities such as Princeton and Stanford has shown that volunteers are able to influence matter by their thoughts. So far the evidence has been limited to effects on random number generators, dice and electronic equipment. We will look at some of this evidence in Lesson Seven. What is still lacking is scientific evidence that visualization can create "coincidences" in the physical world, outside your immediate control. This of course, is hard to test in a lab. But thousands of scientists and millions of other people in the world do believe in this because they have experienced it in their own lives. In short, just because an effect cannot be tested in a lab, does not mean it does not exist. Some of the greatest thinkers in the world - Einstein, Edison, Jung, Carnegie and Goethe (the man with the highest recorded IQ, 210) - all believed in the power of the mind to create coincidences. I believe that the mind has the power to affect groups of atoms and even tamper with the odds of atomic behavior, and that even the course of the world is not predetermined by physical law, but may be altered bythe uncaused volition of human beings.
You can access this library anytime by clicking here. Below, we have included segments from letters that we have received from students of the Silva UltraMind System. These letters will give you some ideas of what can be accomplished when the mind is properly harnessed.
"Investment Success"
"[The] technique already solved one problem with my investments. Two days after doing it, the broker called to inform me [that] my value was up 40% and he wanted to get together with me over dinner to discuss better and safer ways of protecting and increasing my assets. This is exactly what I programmed for."
"Weight-Control"
"I did [the technique] in which I saw myself making better choices about what I eat, and ended with the result of being my ideal size. Recently, I noticed that without struggle, I have made dramatic changes in the way I eat - much less fat and sugar and smaller helpings, yet I seem to be more satisfied and enjoying the taste of the food I eat more than ever."
Why ?
Because when you reach the alpha level of mind, your subconscious is brought to a conscious level - this means it's easier for you to convey commands directly to your subconscious.
I will always maintain a perfectly healthy body and mind. Positive thoughts, positive emotions, bring me all the benefits and advantages I desire. I am learning to use more of my mind and to use it in a better way.
You can also create your own affirmations: Looking for job satisfaction? Try saying. . .
I have a perfect career that I truly love and enjoy. I have great opportunities for advancement and I am earning a wonderful salary of __________ a year.
Looking to slim down? Try saying. . .
I only enjoy eating the right types of healthy, nutritious foods that are good for my body. I love the feeling of increased energy I get after exercising.
or
I'm so happy and grateful now that money comes to me, in ever increasing quantities, through multiple sources, on a continuous basis.
Other affirmations you can use include:
My relationship with _______ is growing. I enjoy my work and am richly rewarded. I have enough time, energy, wisdom and funds to accomplish all my goals.
Before you start creating your affirmation, note these important rules:
When a suggestion is correctly injected into the subconscious mind, the effect is nothing short of miraculous. It does not show itself overnight, however, but is gradual and cumulative.
Try it now.
Close your eyes and visualize the mental screen, raised slightly 20 degrees above the horizon, and at least 6 feet in front of you. When you perform creative visualization you will project images onto this screen. If you are looking to improve your sports skills, visualize yourself playing the game perfectly. See yourself making perfect moves, shooting every basket, making the perfect swing. Feel the joy you feel when you play the game well. If you are looking to shed some pounds, see yourself healthy and fit. Feel the joy of having a beautiful body. See people complimenting you. If you're in sales, you can see yourself making the perfect pitches. See your monthly commission statements showing ever increasing figures
How to Increase the Impact of Creative Visualization: 1. Make the image as realistic as possible.
Incorporate movement, make the screen three-dimensional. See colors and shapes. Use the streaming technique if you have difficulty visualizing.
memory of how an orange tastes in your mouth. As you can see, the trick is to make the image as real as possible by using all of your senses and emotions. Remember, the more realistic the visualization process, the better and faster the results.
"I was put in charge of buying a large amount advertising space for my company. The company selling the space offered us the spot for $500,000.00. This was way above our budget. My CEO who is an excellent negotiator had been trying to get them down to $100,000 for months but had no success. Finally he dumped the project on me. I had no experience with this sort of negotiation but I used the Silva technique while in my meditative level to communicate with the advertisement seller and to request a better deal. The seller had been ignoring me for 2 weeks but that very next day I got a call saying they had agreed to come down to $100,000. I was surprised - we had been trying for months to no avail. By then my confidence was at a peak so I refused the offer and went to my meditative level again and asked for an even better deal. I mentally visualized myself in the negotiation and getting the deal I wanted. Again the results came hard and fast. The very next day I managed to get them down to $60,000. We signed the contract! My CEO was impressed that I managed to do this. Well I got a huge bonus. This was 2 months after taking the UltraMind seminar. Lets just say the seminar paid for itself 20 times over in a mere 2 months."
"Overcoming Hurdles"
"I am most excited about the results I got from using the technique on a screenplay I had been contracted to write. The project had been stalled for a year because the producer was not able to get the necessary permissions to go ahead. Within a few weeks, I was able to get the necessary permissions to go ahead with the project. I will certainly continue to use these techniques as the project moves through the many phases involved."
"Solving Conflicts"
"I work [for a] Financial Management company that provides financial solutions for major international banking institutions. We had [a] client in Europe [and] the project involving my team was well under way. The project was not going easy and we had some tensions, but when the client's management team changed we had to deal with an absolutely arrogant and unreasonable person. Yesterday our final round of negotiations failed and this person stormed out of the meeting room cursing. I went into my Alpha level in the evening and pictured this person forgiving and shaking hands with our rep (Our rep had requested resignation yesterday). I pictured them both calm and collaborating and both companies benefiting from the project completion. Guess what? Today our rep is in a good mood and back to work. That arrogant manager did apologized and the project keeps running. I am amazed."
"Casino Winnings"
"Walked in a casino, went to the roulette table, and used the technique. After 47 minutes of playing, I walked away with $1600.00 in gains. I needed 1300.00 for some car repairs. I
went to the casino with just 100 dollars, went home with $1600. Used the $1300 for car repairs and gave the other $300 to the Salvation Army."
"Fast Healing"
"Wow. I can't believe that I had a skin graft two weeks ago. My foot was still swollen. I went to level to get rid of the swelling. This morning I woke up and my ankle was normal size. It will probably swell again, but I'm going back to level and get rid of it again. This stuff works. I love it."
~ Lorie
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Lesson 5
Here's What You'll Learn Today...
Revealed: The Latest Stunning Scientific Evidence for Mind-Body Healing. The Mysterious Placebo Effect and How it Influences You. How a Famous Doctor teaches his Patients to get rid of Cancer using Visualization Therapy. How You can Apply this same Technique to Help Your Body Heal.
We're all going to cover a very Controversial Subject. Can You Use Your Mind to Influence Healing in a Loved One?
Welcome to Lesson 5
How to Regain and Maintain Perfect Health
In our last chapter we explored techniques to use your mind to reprogram your attitudes, beliefs and habits. But can the mind go further? Can the mind actually influence the physical body in dramatic ways?
Science is beginning to show that it can. In this chapter we will share information on some interesting experiments that provide evidence of the powerful mind-body connection.
Frank is one of thousands of cancer patients that have benefited from imagery therapy through the Simonton Cancer Center (www.simontoncenter.com). Dr. Simonton, a Silva graduate, was once asked to address the audience at a Silva Convention. "About the Silva system," said Simonton, "I would say it is the most powerful single tool that I have to offer patients." In her part of the address, Stephanie Simonton, Dr. Simonton's wife, talked about how they used the mental techniques at their clinic. "Probably the single most important tool we have," she said, "is the mental imagery technique." She then went on to tell the audience of the need for all of us to take personal responsibility for our health. "It is up to us to use the technique that all of you who have had the Silva course have learned and to use it regularly," she said. In this chapter we will teach you how to apply basic Silva UltraMind techniques to help you accelerate your rate of healing. But first, let's discuss a strange phenomenon - the widely observed but little understood, placebo effect.
The placebo effect, using some of the most outrageous remedies, has worked exceptionally well with warts. In 1934, a physician conducted a double-blind study showing that placebos worked almost as well as sulpharsphenamine, the drug commonly used to treat warts at the time. 53% of patients given the actual medicine were cured. But of the patients given the fake medicine, which was nothing more than distilled water and told it was a genuine wart cure, 48% were cured.
The placebo effect can be so powerful that all modern drugs have to be tested against a placebo before they are released to the public. And many former treatments and drugs have been taken off the market when their healing properties were found to be solely due to the placebo effect
Just how much of your physical body is influenced by your belief system?
The gap between mind and body seems almost non-existent. Jose Silva believed that as much as 90% of all physical ailments are induced and curable by the mind.
But Can Your Mind Heal Someone Else's Body? Let's ask a more daring question. Can you use your mind to heal a loved one - at a distance?
Some of the most surprising evidence for distant healing comes from psychologist William Braud and his colleagues at The Mind Science Foundation of San Antonio, Texas. Braud's studies, conducted over 17 years, involved having people mentally attempt to influence the nervous system of remote participants. The results of the study were simply mind blowing. The Receivers Braud would wire up the first group of people, known as receivers, to machines that measured up to seven different physiological responses such as blood pressure, skin conductivity and muscle tremor. The Senders A second group of people, known as senders, would be placed in a different room and asked to attempt to arouse or calm the receiver solely by thinking about them. Both senders and receivers were ordinary people who had volunteered for the study.
Braud's 37 experiments involved 665 sessions, 449 people and 13 experimenters. What Braud found was that at the exact moment the sender was asked to think of their receiver, the receiver would show a change in his or her physiological condition. The 37 experiments combined resulted in odds against chance of more than 100 trillion to one in favor of distant mental interactions between the participants. In short, the ability of one person's mind to affect another person's body is scientific fact.
The effects of distant healing have been proven to be significantly greater than many drugs deemed to be highly successful in medicine.
For example, numerous studies have shown that propranolol and aspirin are effective in reducing heart attacks. But their effects pale in comparison to distant healing. Effect sizes of drugs are measured on a scale from 0 to 1. An effect size of 0.03 in a medical life-or-death situation would mean that 3 out of 100 people survived. An effect size of 0.3 would mean that an additional 30 out of 100 survived. In medical tests the effect size of aspirin on reducing heart attack is 0.03. The effect size of propranolol was not much higher, at 0.04. These sizes were sufficient enough proof for the government to authorize the drug manufacturers to state that their products prevent heart attack. But the effect size of distant healing in Braud's experiments was a surprising 0.25.
This means that if 100 people were going through a therapy with a success rate of 35%, this success rate would go up to 60% with the addition of distant healing. Almost twice as many patients would be saved.
In his studies, Braud also discovered some strange properties of distant healing. His volunteers were asked to participate in another experiment where they would attempt to mentally calm down two groups. One was a group of highly nervous people and the other a calmer group. First, Braud found that the distant healing effect was the strongest when the person on the receiving end actually had a serious need for healing. The effect size on the highly nervous group was far greater than on the calm group.
More surprisingly, he found that the effect size on the agitated group by those trying to calm them down was only slightly less than the effect that people had on themselves when using relaxation techniques. In statistical terms this means that other people could have the same mind-body effect on you as you could have on yourself and vice-versa.
They include: 1. The need for relaxation and quietude.. 2. Learning to focus your attention on one thing (e.g. breathing), which allows you to develop mental
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self-control and avoid distractions. (The above two points are achieved through meditation). Learning visualization or imagery techniques since pictures are the preferred language of the mind. Incorporating intent into the process, a wish for some goal to be reached and an expectation that it will. The evocations of strong positive emotions during the healing process.
The healing system developed by Jose Silva almost two decades before Braud's research had already incorporated these five elements. Braud's research had finally provided scientific credibility to Silva's technique. Next, you will learn Silva's basic healing technique.
"My ______ is now functioning perfectly and is in a state of excellent health." 5. Let Go.
Let go and trust your body's self-healing ability. You can now come out of the alpha level. Trust that the healing action is taking place. Please note that mental healing should not be used as a replacement for a visit to your doctor. Always consult a doctor first for serious health conditions. Mental healing is a type of complementary medicine - as the name suggests it is to be used alongside but not as a replacement for modern medicine. No matter what type of healing you use - conventional medicine, surgery, or more holistic therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, or massage - the Silva system can speed and smooth the normal healing process amazingly.
~ Letter on file
"Accelerating Recovery"
"I can't believe that I had a skin graft two weeks ago. My foot was still swollen. I went to level to get rid of the swelling. This morning I woke up and my ankle was normal size. It will probably swell again, but I'm going back to level and get rid of it again. This stuff works. I love it."
~ LC
PS - You might want to forward this lesson to people you know who may be facing illness or bad health. The techniques described in this lesson are a good form of complementary therapy - to be used with modern medicine to get the best results. Read the lesson here.
Welcome to Lesson 6
In our last four Lessons we have showed you how to: reach a deep meditative level of mind with ease. (Lesson 2)
gain inspiration at alpha. (Lesson 3) use creative visualization to manifest your goals. (Lesson 4) accelerate your body's rate of healing. (Lesson 5) In this Lesson, we'll take a look at how Jose Silva first became interested in the workings of the human mind and how this lead to his world-renowned mind-training programs. The Silva story is fascinating and insightful. It will give you a clearer idea of how his methods work and how you can use them in your life. The story also mentions some amazing coincidences that Silva experienced - coincidences that seemed to guide him toward what would ultimately become a body of work that would help millions of people discover their own latent abilities.
The Beginning
Jose Silva was born on August 11, 1914, in Laredo, Texas. When he was four, his father died. His mother later remarried, and he, his older sister, and younger brother moved in with their grandmother. Two years later he became the family bread-winner, selling newspapers, shining shoes, and doing odd jobs. In the evenings he watched his sister and brother do their homework, and they helped him learn to read and write.
As the years passed, his repair business became one of the largest in the area, providing funds for the education of his brother and sister, the wherewithal for him to marry, plus eventually some half-million dollars to finance the twenty years of research that led to his mind-training systems.
The man who sparked Silva's research was a psychiatrist whose job was to ask questions of men being inducted into the Signal Corps during World War II. "Do you wet your bed?" the Army psychiatrist asked. Jose was dumbfounded. "Do you like women?" Jose, the father of three, and destined one day to be the father of ten, was shocked. Surely, he thought, the man knew more about the human mind than the barber knew about radios. Why such odd questions? It was this perplexing moment that started Jose on an odyssey of scientific research that led to his becoming one of the most creative scholars of his age. Through their writings, Freud, Jung, and Adler became his early teachers. The "odd" questions took on deeper meanings, and soon Jose was ready to ask a question of his own: Is it possible, using hypnosis, to improve a person's learning ability - in fact, to raise his I.Q.? In those days I.Q. was believed to be something we were born with, but Jose was not so sure. The question had to wait while he studied advanced electronics to become an instructor in the Signal Corps. When he was discharged, with savings gone and $200 in his pocket, he began slowly to rebuild his radio repair business. At the same time he took on a part-time teaching job at Laredo Junior College where he supervised three other teachers and was charged with creating the school's electronics laboratories. Five years later, with television on the scene, his repair business began to flourish and Jose called a halt to his teaching career. His business once again became the largest in town. His workdays ended about 9pm each night. He would have dinner, help put the children to bed, and when the house was quiet, study for about three hours. His studies led him further into hypnosis. What he learned about hypnosis, plus what he knew about electronics, and some F's on his children's report cards brought him back to the question he had raised earlier - can learning ability, the I.Q., be improved through some kind of mental training?
Jose began using hypnosis to quiet the minds of his children and he discovered what to many appeared to be a paradox. He found that the brain was more energetic when it was less active. At lower frequencies the brain received and stored more information. The crucial problem was to keep the mind alert at these frequencies, which are associated more with daydreaming and sleep than with practical activity. Hypnosis permitted the receptivity Jose was looking for, but not the kind of independent thought that leads to reasoning things out so they can be understood. Having a head full of remembered facts is not enough; insight and understanding is necessary, too.
The Proof
His children's grades improved sharply over a three-year period while he continued to improve his techniques. Jose had scored a new discovery - a very significant one, which other research, principally biofeedback, has since confirmed. He was the first person to prove that we can learn to function with awareness at the Alpha and Theta frequencies of the brain. Another discovery, an equally astonishing one, was soon to come.
question, he framed the next in his mind. This was the usual procedure, and so far the session was no different from hundreds that had gone before. Suddenly, the routine was momentously changed. Jose would frame the question in his mind first, before verbally asking the question. All of a sudden, his daughter answered the very question he was planning on asking before he had a chance to verbally express the question. She repeated this again and again. Jose would only frame the question in his mind and she would answer it. She was reading his mind. This was in 1953, when ESP was becoming a respectable subject for scientific inquiry, largely through the published work of Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University. Jose wrote to Dr. Rhine to report that he had trained his daughter to practice ESP and received a disappointing answer. Dr. Rhine hinted that the girl might have been psychic to begin with. Without tests of the girl before the training, there was no way to tell. Meanwhile, Jose's neighbors noticed that his children's schoolwork had remarkably improved. At the beginning of his experiments these highly religious people had been wary of his probing into the unknown. However, the success of a man working with his own children could not be ignored. Would Jose train their children too?
"He had developed the first method in history that can train anyone to use ESP."
After the letter from Dr. Rhine, this was just what Jose needed. If what he had accomplished with one child could be accomplished with others, he would have chalked up the kind of repeatable experiments that are the basis to the scientific method. Over the next 10 years he trained 39 Laredo children, with even better results because he improved his techniques a little with each child. He had developed the first method in history that can train anyone to use ESP, and he had 39 repeatable experiments to prove it. Now to perfect the method.
Anyone who asked Jose what success has meant to him was answered with a flood of success stories.
Sports Performance
Fourteen Chicago White Sox players took Silva's class. All their individual averages improved, most of them dramatically.
Better Grades
A professor at a college of pharmacy teaches Silva techniques to his students. "Their grades are going up in all their courses, with less studying, and they're more relaxed. ... Everybody already knows how to use his or her imagination. I just get my students to practice it more."
In the Press
The press also wrote about Silva's new program. The following extract from an April 16, 1972 New York Times article "Can Man Control His Mind" says it all. "A recent study by Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex. would appear to indicate that graduates of Mind Control do attain a high degree of Alpha production. C. W. Post College, Greenvale, L. I., is planning to offer the course at its business school this fall and Canisius College will offer it in its Department of Religious Studies. "A visit to a Mind Control class in New York discloses more stockbrokers than bearded way out and the dress style is closer to Brooks Brothers than to the East Village. A major New York company has sent all its top executives through the course and its president, a hard-headed businessman, is seriously thinking of instituting an in-house training program for all employees. He refused to speak for the record, saying, "We think there is something there, but I don't want to alarm our stockbrokers at the moment." Other businessmen are not so reluctant. Lee Epstein, a vice- president and art group supervisor at Doyle Dane Bernbach volunteered: "It opened the gates for me. It has reenergized me, made me more creative and yet more relaxed. I practice it every day and get better and better at my job and my life." Although Jose smiled easily, when he heard people tell him "Jose, you've changed my life!" the smile fades a little and he would say, "No, I didn't do it. You did, with your own mind." Jose passed away peacefully in February of 1999. The Silva UltraMind System was his final creation and was completed shortly before he departed
One night I suddenly realized that what I was reading did not make sense any more. I said, "What am I doing to myself, studying psychology? I am not a psychologist, nor do I plan to become one. I had a heavy day's work yesterday and I am going to have another heavy day of work tomorrow, and I am wasting good hours of sleep, studying psychology!" I closed the book and threw it on the floor. It slid under a couch and I said to myself, "That is the last time I will have anything to do with psychology!" I went to sleep immediately but two hours later a bright light inside my head woke me up. It was a light like the mid-day sun when you look up into space on a cloudless sunny day. Hanging in space were two sets of numbers, one set over the other. The first set was 3-4-3, the second set under the first one was 3-7-3. Right after that an impression of Christ and the "One Solitary Life" poem given to me at the army reception center came to me. "Why Christ?" I wondered, "Why me? What does this have to do with the numbers?" I opened my eyes and it was dark. I glanced at the clock on the bed stand and it was 4:30 in the morning. Fascinated, I tried some experiments with myself and the light. I closed my eyes trying to keep the bright light from disappearing since it was fading gradually. I tried breathing slowly, but that did not help. I tried changing positions, but that did not help either. I tried to slow down my heart, but whatever I did was not enough. The bright light continued to fade, until it went out completely. I stayed awake from there on, trying to analyze what had happened. I thought of Paula, and how she used to jokingly tell me, "They say that people who read too much go crazy." I was not going to tell her about the light in my head because I knew her answer would be, "I told you so!" But one thing I kept thinking of was that for whatever reason this happened, it must be all right because of the impression of Christ (my inherited religious belief system) that came to me with the experience. The first explanation I thought of was that maybe I was supposed to call someone who has that phone number. I went through the telephone book from cover to cover but did not find any listing for the numbers I had seen. My next idea was that maybe I should go to someone's home who has these numbers as their address and if I find it, they might have a message for me. But when I studied a city map, I found that the home addresses in Laredo did not use those numbers. It was about four in the afternoon when I came up with another idea: I'd look at automobile and truck license plate numbers. I did this for the rest of the day, ready to ask for my message from the driver of any vehicle that had those numbers, but I did not find a car or truck license to match my mysterious numbers. It was fifteen minutes before nine when I started to close my business. Paula came in from our house next door and said to me, "If you go across the river into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
for a service call, please get me a bottle of alcohol." We use Mexican alcohol for medicinal purposes because it is pure and costs less than alcohol in Laredo. We have to let them put a cube of camphor in it when they sell it to us, so we do not have to pay a liquor tax on it. When the tax people at the border smell the camphor in the alcohol they don't charge us any liquor tax. I told Paula, "Honey, I don't have service calls from across the border, but I will go and get you a bottle anyway." At that very moment, an old friend of mine came in to invite me to go for some coffee. I said, "Help me to close my place and we'll leave immediately" I then asked him how much time he had and he answered, "All the time in the world. Why?" I told him I wanted to go across into Mexico to get Paula a bottle of alcohol. He said, "Fine. I'll go with you." While on the way I figured I could tell my friend about my experience since he had been studying psychology with me for one year. I felt sure he was not going to think I was crazy. I had not told anyone all day and I needed to tell someone, so I told him. While crossing the bridge into Mexico my friend suggested, "Now that we are coming into Mexico and a national lottery operates in Mexico, maybe there is such a number." I had not thought of that. "What have we got to lose?" I said. The lottery agency was just one block and a half further up the same street where we were going to get the alcohol. We stopped right in front of the lottery agency. It was closed. It closed at nine o'clock and we had just missed it. "Finding it closed means for me to forget it. It is not supposed to be here,? I told my friend. We then went to the liquor store and while I was getting Paula's alcohol and getting the clerk to put the camphor in the bottle my friend went to a back room where he found some lottery tickets that were hanging on a string. "What numbers are you looking for?" my friend called from the adjoining room. I said, "3-43 and 3-7-3." He called back "I found 3-4-3. " I said. "You are kidding me, are you not?" My friend then answered, "Come and see." Sure enough, there were five segments of an active series numbered 3-4-3. A whole or complete, series contained 20 segments or units. Someone had already purchased the other 15 segments. My friend asked, "What do you intend to do now? Buy these, of course!" So I bought them. I had not thought of buying lottery tickets, but now I was buying 5 segments and would find out in 2 days if the number 3-4-3 would win anything.
States dollars, I cleared a little above ten thousand dollars with just my 5 segments out of the 20 on the ticket. I came home dazed, with $10,000 dollars in my pockets, and in 1949 that was a lot of cash! [Editors Note: $10,000 in 1949 is roughly equal to $50,000 in today's monetary value.] In trying to figure out who had put that number in my head and why, I went back over my experience step by step and found many coincidences. For example, Paula wanted a bottle of alcohol from Mexico and came over and asked me on that particular day. She had said, "Whenever you go to make a service call across the border, get me a bottle of alcohol." I could have said, ?I will get you a bottle the next time I make a service call." Or I could have said, "Send someone else, I don't have time for those petty things." Instead I said, "I will go tonight and get you a bottle, honey." Paula did not know about my experience, much less did I know that she was sending me to the one place in the entire Republic of Mexico where the ticket was sold. And what timing! If my friend had come only ten minutes later, I would have already been gone, by myself. If the clerk had not had to put camphor into the bottle, we would have been out of the store before my friend had a chance to look around and find the adjacent room with the lottery tickets. If my friend had not gone with me, I would not have gotten the idea of buying a lottery ticket, nor would I have walked into the other room and seen the tickets. After backtracking and after going over every detail of the experience I found myself faced with many coincidences. I felt that those coincidences were trying to tell me something or that somebody was trying to tell me something through those coincidences. There were so many coincidences that I was sure there were a pattern and a purpose. I then felt that I must seek and find out what it was that I was supposed to do, or not to do. I started going back prior to having the experience, hour by hour, step by step, seeking a clue. The only thing I saw that could have had a connection and could have brought on the series of coincidences was the decision I made not to continue studying psychology. Two hours after I had decided to discontinue to study psychology the experience took place and in the experience came the awareness of the "One Solitary Life" or Christ. I then made the connection and remembered that the first impression I had about psychology came accompanied by the impression of the "One Solitary Life" of Christ. That happened when I finished talking with the psychiatrist at the reception center as I was inducted into the army. The next person in line gave me the picture of Christ that I still carry in my wallet to this day. On the back of the picture of Christ is written the "One Solitary Life" by an unknown author. I had not read the "One Solitary Life" of Christ before being inducted into the army and I do not know why when I finished reading it there were tears in my eyes. To this day, when I think about it, I get a lump in my throat. With that realization I got on my knees and looked under the couch for the book on psychology, pulled it out, dusted it off and continued with the study-of-psychology routine. I choose to believe that the experience with the psychiatrist at the reception
center, along with this awareness of Christ, was the beginning of my research into the human mind. My many coincidences with the lottery ticket experience were a means of getting back on track and reinforcing the original reception center-psychiatrist-Christ awareness experience. From then on I started experimenting, trying to put together a method that would help to enhance what I used to call "the guessing faculty." What I called "the guessing faculty" turned out to be psi, or the intuitive factor. And so Jose Silva began the work that was to lead to the Silva UltraMind System. Silva would later develop a technique he called the Mental-Video technique, which anyone could use to gain similar types of coincidences and "a-ha" moments that Jose Silva experienced during the events mentioned above.
Welcome to Lesson 7
But Dr. Rhine found that many people had accuracy rates far beyond this. In some experiments the odds in favor of ESP were 22 billion to one. This proved that something was occurring which was allowing people to guess which cards were being picked,and this guessing was correct to a remarkable degree. The laws of probability were being violated. His experiments also showed that distance, space and time played no significant effect on the success of the phenomenon. A highly trained subject in France could guess the outcome of a card drawn in the US just as well when she was across the Atlantic Ocean, as when she was sitting directly opposite the person drawing the cards. Furthermore, the subject could guess the outcome of a card drawn a year into the future - again with the same degree of accuracy. Dr. Rhine's experiments sent shock-waves across academia as other scientists raced to confirm them. His book Extra-Sensory Perception after 60 years became required reading for the introductory psychology class at Harvard. His experiments were repeated around the world 309 times involving 50,000+ people and 2 million sessions - proving without a doubt that ESP is real.
The Growing Acceptance of ESP In the early part of the 20th century Einstein said:
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Today, with the jump in empirical scientific evidence and first-hand human experiences, belief in human intuition and ESP is rapidly rising. The 1990 Gallup public opinion poll found that 93% of Americans polled believed in one or more of 18 paranormal phenomena, including ESP, mental healing, telepathy and clairvoyance. And this number is increasing. A follow up poll eleven years later, in May 2001 found that belief had actually increased in twelve out of thirteen phenomena measured in both the 1990 and 2001 polls ? and increased significantly (5% or more) in seven of them. The 1990 Gallup Poll also asked Americans if they had had first-hand experience with paranormal phenomena. The results were surprising.
25% of Americans claim to have experienced telepathy. 25% claim success with mental healing.
More and more people are not only believing in ESP and mental healing, but are also experiencing and using it. Belief in mental and spiritual healing has increased significantly (up 8%) between 1990 and 2001. Today, about three in four Americanhave at least one paranormal belief Some of the most professed beliefs are in ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, and mind-body healing. The most recent Gallup Poll released June 2005, showed that extra sensory perception was the most popular belief at 41%. "Sure," say the skeptics, "the majority of Americans may believe in ESP but this is usually the less educated majority. Educated people can't be taking this seriously, right?" Wrong.
Studies have shown that, as education increases, belief in ESP also increases.
The May 2001 Gallup Poll discovered that "Americans with the highest levels of education are more likely to believe in the power of the mind to heal the body". The same is true for ESP and telepathy.
One major study done in 1977 found a positive correlation between intelligence and paranormal belief - the more intelligent you were, the more you believed in a world beyond the five senses. Another 1984 study, a sample of high school students, found higher grade point averages correlated positively with belief in ESP phenomenon. Finally, a 1989 CBS television poll done in conjunction with 48 hours uncovered that 75% of persons with a college degree believed in paranormal phenomena, while only 36% of people with less than a high school degree believed in these phenomena. In short, as education increased, so didbelief. If you believe in ESP - congratulations. The majority of educated Americans now share your belief.
power and various forms of telepathy and that these are both distance and time independent Dr. Jahn is Professor of Aerospace science and dean emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton (1994). Dr. Dunne is the manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory (P.E.A.R). Their book Margins of Reality - The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World will make even the strongest skeptic think twice.
~ Albert Einstein
A Word of Caution
When it comes to belief in ESP, people tend to fall into four different groups.
Skeptic
The second is the skeptic. This is someone who does not believe in ESP because it goes against his knowledge of science. However, the skeptic is open-minded and when given strong scientific evidence they would be willing to admit that ESP does exist. A skeptic would cast aside testimonial evidence but will give strong consideration to the results of scientific research.
Cautious Believer
Third - the cautious believer. This person trusts that ESP exists but will not believe every claim they read about. They demand scientific proof or testimonial evidence. A cautious believer would find this series of lessons interesting because it is backed up with scientific evidence and references to respected outside sources.
True Believer
The fourth group, thetrue believer strongly believes in ESP and is likely to also believe anything they read or hear. If you are one - we encourage you to exercise caution. Not everyone who claims to have ESP has it to an extent strong enough to charge you money for. Phone psychics are almost all phonies. And very few street psychics are actually worth paying for. When it comes to a little understood phenomena, such as ESP, it is better to be a cautious believer or a skeptic rather than a true believer.
The Implications
The growing body of evidence for ESP and other unusual phenomenon is being noticed by businesses and governments.
Here is the transcript from one of the session. Two students were paired up. Student A helps guide Student B into a meditative level of mind. Student A then tells student B to attempt to "view" the health condition of a subject known to A, but unknown to B. B is only provided with the name, age and location of the subject. This is what B reported:
"I see a lady, nothing unusual about her. But her blood looks blue. There's bluish blood flowing around her body." "Strange. I'm looking at her head. I see a man standing in her head. He looks sad. There are three elephants surrounding him. They are colorful. They are rotating around his head."
The lady in question suffered from a smoking-related disease that prevented her blood from absorbing oxygen. She was also going through a sad time because her husband had been stationed in India for the past three months on a business trip. The blue blood was the subconscious mind's way of representing de-oxygenated blood. (Look at any biology text book drawing of the blood system and you will find that de-oxygenated blood is represented with the color blue). The sad man surrounded by elephants symbolized the husband in India. Many such experiences occur during the seminar. These experiences invariably lead the participant into a whole new perspective of life and what they are truly capable of. Some participants use this ability with healing. Others use it to help them develop empathy and understand a loved one's feelings. Most use it in more subtle ways such as making business decisions, deciding what companies to invest in, buying a home, applying for college or guiding them into making the right decisions in their life. Jose Silva's training is so powerful that the majority of seminar participants experience ESP by the second day of the seminar. Sign up for a seminar today or get on our reminder list to receive an email if a seminar comes to your area. Go here for more details: http://www.silvaultraindsystem.com/seminars/ Note: If seminars are too far away for you to travel to you can always try the Home Study Program. Go here for details: http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/products/
One simple technique to use your ESP is to go to your alpha level and ask yourself a question.
Let images appear on the mental screen (explained in Lesson 3). Do not analyze what you see. Simply describe what you see mentally to yourself. Focus on describing rather than analyzing. As soon as you start analyzing what you see you allow your left brain to hijack the process. We want to stress that it takes a lot of practice to develop your ESP. In our seminars participants experience ESP after 2 days - but this is after 18 hours of intensive training and guidance from a trained lecturer. If you are unable to get results with the technique described above, don't worry. You can still develop your ability by attending a seminar.