Every­one is look­ing for inner peace. The ques­tion is, how do we find it?

In the video below, I’m going to explain the ingre­di­ents and  process to find­ing inner peace. It’s a quick watch, but I’m sure you’re going to ben­e­fit greatly from it.

Being “at peace” with your­self is healthy, as it is the oppo­site to being anx­ious or stressed. When you’re men­tally and spir­i­tu­ally at peace, you’ll become a stronger per­son inside and out, and this will help you in the face of any chal­lenges you may encounter through­out your life. It will also improve your rela­tion­ships with those around you.

This video will give you some clar­ity on the impor­tance of find­ing inner peace through med­i­ta­tion. You’ll also under­stand how every sin­gle inten­tions, thoughts and beliefs can really affect your liv­ing expe­ri­ence which will, in turn, affect your desired outcome.

Bet­ter and better,

Laura

“Suc­cess is not for the timid, It is for those who seek guid­ance, make deci­sions, and take deci­sive action.” - Jose Silva

Hi friends,

We’re well into Jan­u­ary now, and I’m not going to for­get my promise to help you achieve your 2010 goals

Sta­tis­tics have shown that 90% of us will aban­don our res­o­lu­tions by April, but with my help, you’re going to make 2010 one of the best years of your life!

There are so peo­ple who’re hav­ing prob­lems achiev­ing their desired out­come. They know what they want, but they don’t know how to get it. The Silva Method has always taught us that with proper pro­gram­ming cou­pled with appro­pri­ate actions, we can make things happen!

So, today, I’m going to give you 2 easy steps you must keep in mind when get­ting your goals.

Step 1 — Meditate

Go into your level and seek guid­ance. I can­not stress how great the ben­e­fits of med­i­ta­tion, and this is merely one of it. When at your level, con­sider the things that you like, the things that you’re good at and the things that you want. Con­sider what you already have or don’t have, ie. the things that can help you get ahead.

When you’re at your level, every­thing will slowly become clearer.  You’ll be more aware of what you need to do first before you begin or to con­tinue your journey.

Be aware of your strong points, but do not limit your­self and open your­self to accept­ing cre­ative guidance.

Then clear your mind; expect an answer. Some peo­ple spend all their time ask­ing and talk­ing. You must be a good lis­tener, then guid­ance will come. Now you are ready for the sec­ond step.

2. Make Your Decisions

This is where you decide how you can ful­fill your life pur­pose. Remem­ber, you must pro­gram for suc­cess, but you must also start doing some­thing to get it.

I must warn you though… All these years with the Silva Method, I’ve heard lots of peo­ple say­ing that they want to wait till they’ve mas­tered the tech­niques before they even try to ful­fill their dreams…

Please do not do this.

Here’s where I quote my father, Jose Silva,

” If you were per­fect, you would not be here in this class­room called Earth. This is our train­ing ground and on-the-job training.”

It is very impor­tant to learn as much as you can through this jour­ney we call Life. And it is impor­tant to love, and to express your love to other beings on this planet. Learn how to improve your rela­tion­ships with those around you… It’s very impor­tant in ful­fill­ing your life purpose.

As human beings, we always have a choice. We can com­pete or we can work together in har­mony and I hope that together, we’ll live in har­mony and help make this world a much bet­ter place by bring­ing more peace and love to all that we meet.

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

PS: Were these tips help­ful to you? Leave a com­ment below, I’d love to know what you think.

Hi friends,

I’m sure that just like all of us at Silva Inter­na­tional, you’re shocked and deeply sad­dened when you heard about the earth­quake that dev­as­tated Haiti.

Pic­ture cred­its to The New York Times

The earth­quake, which hit last Tues­day, left thou­sands with­out shel­ter, food, water and med­ical sup­plies. It’s in these times of cri­sis that we should all come together and offer our prayers and thoughts for the peo­ple of Haiti.

For those of you who are able to do so, I urge you to try and help in any lit­tle way pos­si­ble. Please visit the Red Cross web­site here to see how you too, can help. For the lat­est news and updates on Haiti, please visit the home page of The New York Times for the lat­est pho­tos, videos and news.

Haiti has always been a vul­ner­a­ble island, from both a human­i­tar­ian and geo­graphic per­spec­tive. Despite all its heart­break­ing dif­fi­cul­ties, we must help keep their dream for a bet­ter tomor­row alive with the gift of hope. Do all that you pos­si­bly can, and remem­ber, every lit­tle thing you do, a thought, a prayer,  a dona­tion no mat­ter how small, will help its peo­ple and their jour­ney to recov­ery.

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

Hi every­one!

Today, we’re going to do two fun and edu­ca­tional things. First, you’re going to brush up on your inter­net skills…and sec­ondly, you’re going to get rewarded for it!

Here’s how:

Have you heard of Twit­ter?

In other words, Twit­ter lets you “fol­low” the sources most rel­e­vant to you and access infor­ma­tion via Twit­ter as it happens—from break­ing world news to updates from friends.

So for exam­ple, you may want to “fol­low” CNN to receive the lat­est world news imme­di­ately. To “fol­low”, sim­ply go to CNN’s Twit­ter page and click on the “fol­low” but­ton. It’s so easy!

Here’s the best part; while you can always access Twit­ter from your com­puter, most peo­ple access it directly from their phone. This means you will get updates on the go, any­where and everywhere!

Which leads me to my next ques­tion; do you have an account?

If you don’t, you may want to think of cre­at­ing one because… The Silva Method is now on Twitter!

This is fan­tas­tic news because this means you’re going to receive mini updates on Silva directly onto your phone. You’ll also get to con­nect with other Silva stu­dents and friends as well as other per­sonal devel­op­ment gurus who are on Twitter.

This brings me to the sec­ond thing we’re going to do: Reward you for help­ing spread the Silva mes­sage. Here’s what you’re going to get:

It’s a two-page guide on For­give­ness, Heal­ing and Well­ness writ­ten by Laura herself.

So log in to Twit­ter now with your user name or cre­ate one, and then “fol­low” The  Silva Method. Then, retweet any of The Silva Method updates so that it’ll appear on your profile!

Here’s the third and final step: Leave your Twit­ter link in the com­ments box below. For exam­ple, The Silva Method’s link is http://twitter.com/TheSilvaMethod. You can cre­ate one that is unique to your user name.

This is impor­tant because we will be send­ing (or “tweet­ing”) your access to the exer­cise above via your Twit­ter

So let me recap. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Go to Twit­ter on your browser
2. Log in with your user name or cre­ate an account
3. Go to The Silva Method’s page (http://twitter.com/TheSilvaMethod)
4. “Fol­low” The Silva Method by click­ing on the Fol­low button
5. Retweet any mes­sage from The Silva Method page so that it will appear on your profile
6. Leave your Twit­ter links in the com­ments box below!

It’s so sim­ple and easy and lots of fun! It took me less than 10 min­utes to com­plete all 6 steps, and I’m sure you can too! So hurry up, I’m wait­ing to see all of your Twit­ter pages!

Cheers,

Jill

Hi friends,

Last week, we talked about 5 sim­ple ways to be happy.

As Silva stu­dents, we’re for­tu­nate enough to have tips and tech­niques that can nat­u­rally help us achieve hap­pi­ness. This of course, include med­i­ta­tion, which is the key ingre­di­ent used in all of Silva Method’s exercises.

Med­i­ta­tion helps us to relax our mind and body while giv­ing us phys­i­cal as well as inner peace. It heals stress, anx­i­ety as well as depression.

We already know that engag­ing in activ­i­ties that relieve you from stress, anx­i­ety and depres­sion, such as med­i­ta­tion, can reduce the neg­a­tive ener­gies in our sys­tem lead­ing to hap­pi­ness.

Unfor­tu­nately, there are still so many out there who have yet to expe­ri­ence its won­drous benefits.

So, in their quest to achieve hap­pi­ness, they try var­i­ous meth­ods that may include med­ica­tion, drugs and other adrenaline-rushing activ­i­ties which just aren’t healthy in the long run.

For this rea­son alone, I am very happy to see that med­i­ta­tion is being rec­og­nized more and more in the med­ical world for its nat­ural and per­ma­nent ben­e­fits.

Here’s an arti­cle writ­ten by Janis Whit­lock (MPH, PhD), which talks about the increas­ing num­ber of those addicted to unnat­ural meth­ods in their quest to find hap­pi­ness, but with less than pos­i­tive results.

Accord­ing to Janis, with the quest for hap­pi­ness, as it is socially and cul­tur­ally defined in most west­ern nations, comes height­ened risk for addic­tions of all sorts — par­tic­u­larly for youth.

The arti­cle elab­o­rated on the sci­ence of addic­tion, which reveals that when some­one strug­gles with sub­stance abuse or process addic­tions present in our cul­ture such as food, sex, gam­bling, self-harming behav­iors, or even exces­sive Inter­net usage or worka­holism, the pay-off is the same: increased lev­els of “feel good” chemicals.

All of these behav­iors increase lev­els of “hap­pi­ness” chem­i­cals such as dopamine, sero­tonin, endoge­nous opi­ods, and nor­ep­i­neph­rine — at least for a short while.

Med­i­ta­tion, mean­while, pro­vides the much sought-after pos­i­tive and per­ma­nent qual­i­ties that so many are search­ing for:

• Increased under­stand­ing of the neu­rol­ogy of con­tent­ment sug­gests that prac­tices such as med­i­ta­tion and con­tem­pla­tion may hold the key to real and last­ing happiness
• Stud­ies of long-term med­i­ta­tors by researchers such as Richard David­son from the UW-Madison Lab­o­ra­tory for Affec­tive Neu­ro­science show that med­i­ta­tion is linked to sig­nif­i­cant activ­ity in the left pre­frontal cor­tex — areas of the brain linked to pos­i­tive emotion
• Stud­ies of the effect of med­i­ta­tion on men­tal health typ­i­cally show med­i­ta­tion linked to sig­nif­i­cantly less trait anx­i­ety and neg­a­tive affect, enhanced lev­els of cir­cu­lat­ing anti­bod­ies and the high-frequency gamma waves asso­ci­ated with higher men­tal activity
• Sim­i­larly, as reviewed in Ste­fan Klein’s book, The Sci­ence of Hap­pi­ness, long-term compassion-focused med­i­ta­tion has been linked to the most intense left-sided, happiness-related brain activ­ity ever recorded
• These stud­ies have shown that the effects of med­i­ta­tion are believed to be per­ma­nent

You can read the rest of the arti­cle here, and see for your­self how even the med­ical world is now rec­og­niz­ing the won­der­ful ben­e­fits of meditation.

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

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Hi friends,

Here are some pho­tos taken from my New Year’s Eve party that I really want share with you!

The start of the night. Can you tell how excited I was?

Smiles for the camera!

There’s noth­ing bet­ter than to be sur­rounded by your loved ones

Happy New Year, every­one!

I cel­e­brated with my clos­est friends and fam­ily, includ­ing my brother Joe and my sis­ter Diana which really com­pleted the night and made it perfect.

I also had another very impor­tant thing in mind when I took these pho­tos… and that was you of course, my Silva fam­ily! You know you’ve always been a very large and impor­tant part of my life and of my father, Jose Silva’s work, the Silva Method.

I hope you liked my pic­tures… Do let me know what you think, and if you have any pic­tures of your New Year’s Eve cel­e­bra­tions, feel free to leave your album links in the com­ments box below.

I would love to see how you cel­e­brated too!

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura