You’ve voted, we’ve counted and now, we have the win­ners to the Silva 1 Sen­tence Contest!

Thanks to all of you who par­tic­i­pated, and every­one else who voted because your votes really, really helped me choose the top 5 win­ners. Hon­estly, I was hav­ing such a hard time pick­ing them out on my own because all them were so beau­ti­ful, so inspir­ing and so creative!

But thanks to every­one who par­tic­i­pated, here are the winners:

Top 5 Win­ners Of The Silva 1 Sen­tence Contest

1. By con­nect­ing and har­ness­ing the power of the sub­con­scious and con­scious minds with our body’s intu­itive wis­dom, The Silva Method dis­solves our fears, removes our men­tal blocks, trans­forms our lim­it­ing beliefs and unfolds our deep­est val­ues, open­ing us to the power we have within each of us to cre­ate the world we yearn to share — Paul O Connor
2. The Silva method is an empow­er­ing learn­ing expe­ri­ence that will enable you to take con­trol of your phys­i­cal, men­tal, spir­i­tual and emo­tional well­be­ing. — Karen Seegert
3. Silva…Changing the world, one MIND at a time! — Debi D
4. The Silva Method is a sci­en­tif­i­cally backed eso­teric sys­tem that gets your life in order and then accel­er­ates it into the direc­tion you want it to go — Chris
5. The Silva Method set­tles the mind, stirs the soul and sparks the spirit for ulti­mate seren­ity — San­dra Kraus

Con­grat­u­la­tions to all of you, you really did put a lot of effort and thought into this. I can see Silva’s core mes­sage as well as our mis­sion and vision in your sen­tences

As promised, you will each receive a dig­i­tal copy of the Silva Intu­ition Pro­gram.

So please don’t for­get to leave me your email address in the com­ments box below, I will send you the details of your prize straight to your inbox.

Once again, con­grat­u­la­tions and enjoy the program!

Cheers,

Jill

Hi friends,

How were your Christ­mas cel­e­bra­tions? I must say I had such a won­der­ful, happy and joy­ous time sur­rounded by my loved ones and my fam­ily, I just couldn’t ask for more.

Even through the hus­tle and bus­tle of Christ­mas, you, my Silva fam­ily, were con­stantly on my mind… And that was when I decided to take this pic­ture to share with you!

But now it’s time to look ahead and look for­ward towards a whole new begin­ning… 2010 is just around the cor­ner and there is noth­ing that can make me hap­pier than to see you make it an even bet­ter year than 2009!

And to do this, I am going to share with you the 5 Rules of Hap­pi­ness that my father, Jose Silva has identified.

My father has always said this:

“Stress is not caused by prob­lems. It is your atti­tude toward the prob­lem that causes stress. Know­ing the cause of stress makes it eas­ier to deal with, for now the appro­pri­ate ques­tion can be asked. The ques­tion is not how can I rid myself of stress, but how can I change my atti­tude toward work, events, dis­ap­point­ments, fears, and people?”

Now as your work towards liv­ing the life that you desire in the New Year, keep this in mind every­time you find your­self fac­ing stress­ful or unhappy situations.

The 5 Rules Of Happiness:

1. If you like some­thing, enjoy it.
2. If you don’t like some­thing, avoid it.
3. If you don’t like some­thing and can’t avoid it, change it.
4. If you can’t or choose not to avoid or change some­thing you don’t like, then accept it.
5. You accept some­thing by chang­ing your per­cep­tion of it.

Sounds pretty sim­ple right? I agree too, but you’d be sur­prised at how fast most peo­ple for­get these 5 sim­ple rules when faced with a dif­fi­cult situation.

So next time you find your­self in an unhappy or stress­ful sit­u­a­tion, run through these 5 rules in your head and see if you’re break­ing any of them. Trust me, they’d really help you see what you can do to rem­edy the sit­u­a­tion and be happy.

I hope that helps, and now, let’s look for­ward to a happy, won­der­ful and abun­dant 2010!

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

PS: How else has Silva helped you achieve hap­pi­ness? Let me know in the com­ments box below!

I must say that 2009 was a won­der­ful year, filled with both chal­lenges and wins, ups and downs, hap­pi­ness and sad­ness. But the most impor­tant thing is how we over­come life’s chal­lenges and achieve hap­pi­ness & abun­dance to live the life that we want.

New Year’s Eve has always been a time to reflect and to look for­ward to the com­ing year.

I’m proud to say that Silva has achieved quite a lot in 2009. This means a lot to me as it’s always been one of my goals to see my father’s work con­tinue down its path to success.

Here are achieve­ments I’m proud of that I want to share with you:

Silva’s 2009 Achievements:

1. We devel­oped and made avail­able a num­ber of Silva prod­ucts to every­one and this include:
   – Silva Peaks
   – Silva Mind Body Heal­ing
   – Silva Intu­ition System
2. We entered and strength­ened our base in the Span­ish market
3. We did the same in the Russ­ian market
4. Silva got accred­ited by the BBB
5. We’ve got more than 20,000 new mem­bers join­ing our online Silva community
6. We’ve started work­ing on new Silva prod­ucts with Mark Wald­man, author of “Why We Believe What We Believe”
7. We’ve started on a new inter­net con­tin­u­ance pro­gram (more details next year! )
8. We’ve secured the Silva brand, prod­ucts and patents and this will hope­fully ensure that we can go on strong for another 50 years

While it’s impor­tant to reflect on the past, it’s also impor­tant to look ahead, so here’s what I’m hop­ing to achieve in 2010.

My New Year Res­o­lu­tions for Silva:

1. Launch the new Silva prod­uct that we’re devel­op­ing with Mark Wald­man
2. Con­tinue to deliver great qual­ity products
3. Reach more peo­ple around the world
4. Release new Silva books and videos by my father, Jose Silva
5. Com­plete the US Tour where I will per­son­ally present on the Silva Method
6. Travel to dif­fer­ent parts of the world to fur­ther broaden Silva’s base i.e. Asia

PHEW! What a list eh? But I’m con­fi­dent that with your help, and the help of every­one at Silva Inter­na­tional, we can and will achieve them!

Now it’s your turn to share. Tell me what you have achieved this year and what you want to achieve in 2010. Leave them in the com­ments box below!

Mean­while, on behalf of myself and every­one at Silva Inter­na­tional, I wish you and your loved ones a very happy and won­der­ful 2010.

Remem­ber, there is always hope. As long as we focus on the pos­i­tive and con­tinue to imag­ine and hone in all the things we want in our lives, keep a lot of hopes in our hearts and souls, we will cre­ate a pow­er­ful energy that can truly trans­form our world and main­tain all the good things in our lives now and in the near future.

May the com­ing year bring you noth­ing but an abun­dance of wealth, health and hap­pi­ness

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

PS: Don’t for­get to share with me your achieve­ments in 2009 as well as your New Year’s res­o­lu­tions in the com­ments box below. I can’t wait to read them

Hi every­one!

Now before I go on, I must thank you all so much for send­ing in your sen­tences describ­ing the Silva Method. They were all so beau­ti­ful, so inspir­ing and so cre­ative… But like I said, we need to choose only 5 to be the win­ners and to be honest..

…I need your help!

I can just imag­ine you say­ing “again?”

No really, we received so many amaz­ing sen­tences that Laura and I feel that it would be so much bet­ter if you get to par­tic­i­pate and vote for your favorites too!

So here’s the top 20 sen­tences that we’ve picked out. Now all you need to do is vote for your favorite, and the top 5 with the most votes will win!

Vote For Your Top 20 Silva Sen­tences Below

1. The Silva method is that mar­velous unique awe inspir­ing Rain­bow that bridges Heaven and Earth ‚that opens the door to your real self where you will find that every­thing that you can aspire for is sim­ply within you,making you sim­ply bliss­ful like the blos­som­ing rose or the glo­ri­ous morn­ing sun — Sujatha
2. By con­nect­ing and har­ness­ing the power of the sub­con­scious and con­scious minds with our body’s intu­itive wis­dom, The Silva Method dis­solves our fears, removes our men­tal blocks, trans­forms our lim­it­ing beliefs and unfolds our deep­est val­ues, open­ing us to the power we have within each of us to cre­ate the world we yearn to share — Paul O Connor
3. The Silva Method helps a per­son dis­cover, learn and adopt prac­tices that result in improved qual­ity of life, suc­cess and hap­pi­ness.- Charu
4. The Silva Method is alive and elight­ens the mind, which nour­ishes the soul, which cul­ti­vates the heart, which strength­ens the body that it may become bet­ter and bet­ter — Iris
5. The uni­verse and the light of the stars come through the Silva method — Sude
6. The Silva Method intro­duces you to your high­est poten­tial and expands your life by expand­ing your mind. — Lori
7. To Know a bet­ter day,a bet­ter tomor­row, a bet­ter World in every way, the path to being in Joy­ous Har­mony with all You are is Here and Now with Silva Life Sys­tems — Daniel Hill
8. “The Silva Method is the planet’s most effec­tive learn­ing tool that facil­i­tates you to uti­lize more brain and mind for get­ting help from the other side to solve your prob­lems and achieve your goal” — Dee­lan Lal
9. SILVA: Step­ping Into Lib­erty; Vision Awak­ened — Diana Thurston
10. The Silva Sys­tem takes you on a sim­ple yet mag­i­cal jour­ney to dis­cov­er­ing the real and mag­nif­i­cent you — John
11. The Silva Method is a sci­en­tif­i­cally backed eso­teric sys­tem that gets your life in order and then accel­er­ates it into the direc­tion you want it to go — Chris
12. New beginnings,leaving the past behind towards an amaz­ing jour­ney for a bet­ter future — Susan
13. The Silva Method is help­ing peo­ple to be, to do and to become bet­ter and bet­ter in body, mind and spirit each day for peace, pros­per­ity and har­mony — Eliz­a­beth
14. Silva…Changing the world, one MIND at a time! — Debi D
15. “The Silva Method unlocks the door­way to Self aware­ness and your unlim­ited human poten­tial” — Brit
16. The Silva Method is the turbo-charged appli­ca­tion of thought power! — Eddie Reece
17. The Silva method is an empow­er­ing learn­ing expe­ri­ence that will enable you to take con­trol of your phys­i­cal, men­tal, spir­i­tual and emo­tional well­be­ing. — Karen Seegert
18. The Silva Method helps you trans­form the Uni­verse into your ally that will deliver you what­ever you want: health, wealth, rela­tion­ships and hap­pi­ness, so your life gets bet­ter and bet­ter every­day and every way — Alina
19. The Silva Method Guides You Through The “Awak­en­ing” and Makes Your Life Bet­ter and Bet­ter Every Sin­gle Day In Every Sin­gle Way — Rodger
20. The Silva Method set­tles the mind, stirs the soul and sparks the spirit for ulti­mate seren­ity — San­dra Kraus

And that’s all of it!

So please leave your votes in the com­ments box below, I’d really appre­ci­ate it!

Cheers,

Jill

So many peo­ple have asked me if the Silva Method can be used for start­ing fam­i­lies and I am happy to say that yes, of course you can.

Here’s how:

I’m shar­ing this with you because I just received news from one of my close friends that she is now preg­nant and expect­ing a baby — she’s been hav­ing some dif­fi­culty con­ceiv­ing which makes this spe­cial news even more special!

I’m ecsta­tic also because we’ve been using the Silva Method to help pro­gram for the pregnancy.

And just like I men­tioned in the video, we’re also using the Silva Method to help pro­gram for the baby’s arrival, so do watch this space as I will be updat­ing you about it a few months from now!

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

PS: Do you have any sim­i­lar sto­ries like this you want to share with us? Leave them in the com­ments box below, I’d love to read them!

Hi every­body!

I’m sure you know by now that the Silva Method is expand­ing fast around the world and get­ting more and more recog­ni­tion every sin­gle day. This has got us all (at Silva Inter­na­tional) think­ing about the impor­tance of mes­sag­ing our mission.

Plus, for Silva to con­tinue to suc­ceed and empower lives in the long run, we need to make sure that every­one around the globe under­stands our core vision, mis­sion and pur­pose and so, we’ve decided to ask YOU to be a part of this!

How? Just par­tic­i­pate in this con­test that I’ve come up with.

All you need to do is come up with 1 great line that describes the Silva Method.

And, if we like your descrip­tion, we will send you a prize. But you have to be one of the top 5 selected (or else it just won’t be a con­test right? )

So here’s what we need you to do; please come up with 1 sim­ple sen­tence that truly describes the Silva Method, and leave it in the com­ments box below.

And that’s it!

Oh! Please make sure that your sen­tence reflects the core vision and pur­pose of the Silva Method and try to make it as cre­ative and as inter­est­ing as you can.

I tried to come up with some­thing, so to be fair I’ll show it to you:

“The Silva Method helps make the world and the lives of mil­lions bet­ter & bet­ter every sin­gle day in every sin­gle way”.

Now here’s the most inter­est­ing part; the prize.

Are you ready?

It’s a com­plete dig­i­tal copy of the Silva Intu­ition Pro­gram!

For our favorite top 5 one-liners on the Silva Method, we will give you the Silva Intu­ition Pro­gram as a token of thanks — and also post some of our favorites in upcom­ing blogs.

Go ahead, leave your sen­tences in the com­ments box below… I’ll be waiting!

Cheers,

Jill

PS: Don’t for­get to leave your email addresses too, I need them to send you the prize!

Hi friends,

Recently, many of you have writ­ten in to ask me about weight loss and how you can use the Silva Method to help you achieve the right weight that you desire.

Before we go fur­ther, I must tell you that when refer­ring to weight loss, we want to say “reduce” as opposed to “los­ing” weight. I’ve explain more in this audio that you can down­load right here:

Down­load this Audio Here

I was actu­ally record­ing this on the way to the air­port — you know how it is when you’re pressed for time and something’s stuck on your mind

Any­way I think I’ve told you before that I’ve actu­ally shed 80 pounds using the Silva Method… So if I can do it, I’m con­fi­dent that you can too!

And to help you achieve your goal, I’m going to share with you some tips on how you can use med­i­ta­tion to keep your­self on the right track to great health.

Most peo­ple look at med­i­ta­tion as a prac­tice that’s ben­e­fi­cial for the mind and not the body. (Quite wrongly so, I would say). So, when peo­ple think of shed­ding those pounds, they almost always think of exer­cis­ing more and chang­ing their diet but remem­ber that the first step to any­thing, includ­ing reduc­ing weight, is within the mind.

3 Med­i­ta­tion Tips To Greater Health

1. Med­i­ta­tion can help you stay on track
   Exer­cis­ing and eat­ing bal­anced meals will help you stay healthy and reduce weight but there are many who lose their deter­mi­na­tion at a men­tal level. While we may know the phys­i­cal way to reduce weight, we don’t always men­tally know how. Med­i­ta­tion, when done prop­erly, can help any­one apply his or her knowl­edge to his or her actions.
2. Med­i­ta­tion helps you stay deter­mined
   If you want to achieve your new goal in reduc­ing weight and be health­ier, then you have to com­mit to a change in lifestyle. This means dis­ci­pline and keep­ing to the exer­cise and health rou­tines that best suits you. Med­i­ta­tion can help you stay deter­mined in your new ‘health­ier’ mentality.
3. Med­i­ta­tion for bal­ance
   Dur­ing med­i­ta­tion, include some pos­i­tive affir­ma­tions regard­ing health and weight reduc­tion. Say to your­self, “I will lose weight. I will exer­cise more. I will eat less. I will eat health­ier foods.” After med­i­ta­tion you should feel more bal­anced and calm, which will put you in the right mood to exer­cise and avoid overeat­ing. Not only will you have a con­sis­tent, pos­i­tive “I can!” atti­tude, you’ll also find that you will not have as many food crav­ings as you usu­ally do.

I hope these tips have helped. Please leave me your feed­back in the com­ments box below!

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

Oh, happy day!

The Silva Method is slowly but surely being rec­og­nized as one of the world’s most pow­er­ful, life-changing sys­tem that expands on the abil­i­ties of the human mind.

How do I know this? Well, we were pub­lished in one of India’s lead­ing pub­li­ca­tions, The Kolkata Mir­ror, just last month!

I was very pleased that it men­tioned that by open­ing up to the addi­tional fac­ul­ties of the mind while at the Alpha and Theta level, any­one can achieve any­thing that they desire, includ­ing great health, abun­dance, and happiness.

Most of you Silva stu­dents and grad­u­ates already know the ben­e­fits that the Silva Method can bring, but did you know that  the Silva Method is the only sys­tem that deliv­ers a sys­tem­atic process that allows you to evolve your untapped Extra Sen­sory Per­cep­tion (ESP) skills?

And there are still so many out there who do not under­stand psy­chic or intu­itive abilities.

Which is why I’m ecsta­tic that Silva Mind Con­trol is being dis­cussed in a coun­try as far away as India!

My favorite part of the arti­cle was when Dr. Avd­hut Das, (one of three cer­ti­fied Silva train­ers in India) said that there is only 4 ways to get into the Alpha level and that Silva is one of it.

Here’s also my favorite quote from the article:

“Silva opens a store­house of pos­i­tive energy that enables the prac­ti­tion­ers to deal with HERBS: health, edu­ca­tion, rela­tion­ships, busi­ness and sports aspects of life”

Well I think that sums up the Silva Method per­fectly

You can read the rest of the arti­cle your­self below.

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

Read The Full Arti­cle Here

Hi every­body! I have a ques­tion for you… If you could grade your own hap­pi­ness level, what would you give yourself?

At the moment, I would say I am an A+ but there were times when I was a B+ or even a B-!

So why the sud­den inter­est in ‘grad­ing’ my hap­pi­ness level? Well, I stum­bled upon an arti­cle about this last night and I really think that you would love to read this. I was astounded to learn that American’s are not as happy as the rest of the world!

Accord­ing to the author, Howard C. Cut­ler, M.D. who is also a psy­chi­a­trist, best­selling author, and speaker, we have a very strong need to evolve, to deepen our under­stand­ing, and give up our older notions of where and how to find greater happiness.

So, I’m think­ing, what bet­ter way to do this but to do the very thing that the Silva Method has been telling us we must do — keep on learn­ing, of course!

Even H.H The Dalai Lama said so! Click on the link below to read more.

Cheers,
Jill

PS: Do you agree with Howard? Tell me your thoughts in the com­ments box below.

Learn­ing The Art Of Happiness

As a psy­chi­a­trist spe­cial­iz­ing in the sci­ence of human hap­pi­ness, I’m some­times asked, “What is the cur­rent state of hap­pi­ness in America?”

Look­ing from a global per­spec­tive, stud­ies reveal that Amer­ica gen­er­ally ranks some­where between the 80th and 90th per­centile in com­par­i­son with other nations. A solid “B.” Maybe a “B+.” Now, that’s a respectable grade. But in a nation that has delib­er­ately enshrined “the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness” as an inalien­able human right in its orig­i­nal mis­sion state­ment, some might ask, “So, why aren’t we happier?”

Click Here To Read The Full Article

Did you know that the Silva Method was once  “under inves­ti­ga­tion”?

I mean that in the best pos­si­ble way, of course.

Back in 1972, a staff writer by the name of David R. Boldt at The Wash­ing­ton Post decided to ‘inves­ti­gate’ a Silva Mind Con­trol sem­i­nar, espe­cially after hear­ing about the amaz­ing case stud­ies by stu­dents who attended one.

I’ve always known that we have peo­ple from all walks of life attend­ing our sem­i­nars and classes, but I par­tic­u­larly love it when jour­nal­ists and writ­ers attend our classes because, well, because then they will pub­lish it in the newspapers!

And I’m very happy to say that I found the article!

The Silva Mind Con­trol was the ear­lier ver­sion of the Silva Intu­ition Sys­tem, that also teaches you how to develop your intu­ition or clair­voy­ance skills. Those days, they were more famil­iarly known as Extra Sen­sory Per­cep­tion (ESP) and psy­chic abilities.

In this report, David R. Boldt recalled almost every detail of his four-night, five day course he attended and how it has helped him as well as other Silva stu­dents who attended the sem­i­nar. David openly admit­ted his skep­ti­cism and doubt at the begin­ning of the arti­cle, but the most inter­est­ing part came towards the end when he expe­ri­enced case work­ing for the very first time.

I man­aged to get the full arti­cle on here, so you can read it too! Down­load the report now and do share with me your thoughts or expe­ri­ences that you may have had at a Silva Seminar!

Down­load Here

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura