Update!

Thank you every­one for your par­tic­i­pa­tion in this flag­ship poll for our excit­ing new Silva ven­ture! It’s really flat­ter­ing to know that there are so many grad­u­ates of Jose Silva’s legacy that are inter­ested in help­ing us take the Method to a new level.

With that, the admin­is­tra­tors of his hum­ble blog would like to express their heart­felt thanks — and the poll is now closed.

In 2008, The Silva Method has some BIG plans!

We’ll be launch­ing a mem­ber­ship web­site that will allow you to:

Keep in touch with your Silva instruc­tors and lecture-mates
Watch and down­load never-seen-before footage and audios from over 30 years of The Silva Method’s His­tory
A Online Med­i­ta­tion Cen­ter that gives you the tools that you need to effec­tively prac­tice the Silva Method.
And a data­base of Silva Cases that you can use to improve your intuition!

We want you to have the ulti­mate say on this mat­ter… here’s how YOU can help

We’ve got a few options for names and we would like YOU to vote for which name you like the best! Let us know what you think!

Today’s spe­cial fea­ture comes from one of the most expe­ri­enced Silva instruc­tors, Ken Coscia.

Ken Cos­cia, con­ducts reg­u­lar Silva Method pro­grams in Con­necti­cut & Mass­a­chu­settes and has over 36 years of expe­ri­ence work­ing with the Silva com­mu­nity world­wide. Ken was hand-picked from of thou­sands of instruc­tors in 1984 by Jose and Juan Silva to con­duct the Silva Advanced Grad­u­ate Sem­i­nar world­wide and has spent over 12 years as a major part of the new instruc­tor Train­ing Program.

Put The Glass Down

by Ken Coscia

A lec­turer was giv­ing a lec­ture to his stu­dent on stress man­age­ment. He raised his glass of water and asked the audi­ence, “How heavy do you think this glass of water is?”

The stu­dents’ answers ranged from 20g to 500gm.

“It does not mat­ter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for and hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have an ambu­lance. It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heav­ier is becomes.”

“If we carry our bur­dens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the bur­den becom­ing increas­ingly heavier.”

“What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before hold­ing it up again.”

We have to put down the bur­den peri­od­i­cally, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on. So before you return home from work tonight, put the bur­den of work down. Leave it there. You can pick it up tomor­row. What­ever bur­dens you are hav­ing now on your shoul­ders let it down for a moment, if you can. Enjoy an Alpha break and regain access to the flow of cre­ative solutions.

Pick it up again later when you have rested… Or Bet­ter yet, You may make the time to RENEW Your­self and Deepen Your Under­stand­ing and abil­ity to apply Silva in your Life, by attend­ing a Silva Method Pro­gram.

We live in a time of extra­or­di­nary oppor­tu­ni­ties and sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges, but are we truly expe­ri­enc­ing the qual­ity of life we desire? We know that what­ever we focus on, we will achieve. The chal­lenge so many of us face, though is in find­ing bal­ance. Prac­tic­ing Silva helps you to remain focused on what you really want.
Even the great­est Achiev­ers acknowl­edge a gap between where they are and where they want to be. Per­haps our busi­nesses or careers are strong, but our inti­mate rela­tion­ships are lack­ing. Or maybe our rela­tion­ships are flour­ish­ing, but our per­sonal finances or phys­i­cal vital­ity is suf­fer­ing. We all have areas of our lives that demand more focus.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing in a Silva Method Pro­gram is like peel­ing lay­ers of an onion. There is a con­tin­u­ous unfold­ing and inte­gra­tion of our unique poten­tial. Each time you prac­tice or review (it’s free), it makes more sense and gets pro­gres­sively eas­ier. You become more aware of and develop more appli­ca­tions. Your Focus is enhanced. You review not for the infor­ma­tion, but for the trans­for­ma­tion (phys­i­cally, men­tally, & spir­i­tu­ally) that the train­ing affords you.

All Cau­sa­tion is Mental

The first prin­ci­ple is this. All cau­sa­tion is men­tal. All cau­sa­tion is men­tal. That means that every­thing that you are or ever will be will be as a result of how you use your mind. You are merely a mind with a body to carry it around with. The entire man made world that you see is sim­ply an expres­sion of thought. Your entire life is an expres­sion of your own think­ing. And since the qual­ity of your think­ing deter­mines the qual­ity of your life, if you improve the qual­ity of your think­ing, you must, you will, inevitably improve the qual­ity of your life.

You learn to do this with Men­tal House­Clean­ing and Mir­ror of the Mind!

The Law of Expectations

The sec­ond prin­ci­ple is what we call the law of expec­ta­tions. This law says that what­ever you expect with con­fi­dence, pos­i­tive or negative,
becomes your real­ity. If you con­fi­dently expect to suc­ceed, if you con­fi­dently expect to learn some­thing from every expe­ri­ence, if you con­fi­dently expect to become wealthy as a result of apply­ing your tal­ents and abil­i­ties to your oppor­tu­ni­ties and you main­tain that atti­tude of con­fi­dent expec­ta­tions long enough, it will become your real­ity. It will give you a pos­i­tive opti­mistic cheer­ful atti­tude that will cause peo­ple to want to help you, and will cause things to hap­pen the way you want them to happen.

Dur­ing what we call Case­work­ing (intu­itive expe­ri­ences in class) you will enhance the power of Belief and expectancy!

You are invited to put some of your bur­dens to rest, enhance your focus, and dra­mat­i­cally ener­gize the Power of Belief & Expectancy by par­tic­i­pat­ing in a Silva Method 2 Day Seminar.

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Ken Cos­cia will be teach­ing a Silva Sem­i­nar in the fol­low­ing locations.

Click to find out more information:

Malaysia — Decem­ber 2007
Greater Hart­ford CT — Feb 2008
Boston MA — March 2008

If you are inter­ested in find­ing out more about Ken Cos­cia, or find­ing out if there is a Silva pro­gram near you:

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