We got this email the other day, Celisa’s story is not only inspir­ing, but also presents how noth­ing really stops you from striv­ing to achieve what you set out to:

“It’s Celisa from the other night’s con­fer­ence call. I would first like to say how blessed I was that I got to talk to Laura. THE Laura Silva Que­sada! That was so incred­i­ble! Any­ways, there were a lot of other things that I wanted to say but given the time restraint, I held back. I men­tioned in the call that I had gone back to col­lege but what I didn’t men­tion is the fact that all of my edu­ca­tion is being payed for! Not one dime is com­ing out of my own pocket! I had always been a lit­tle weary of col­lege life because I had heard all these sto­ries about peo­ple hav­ing out­ra­geous debts and loans to take care of and on top of all that, I just didn’t think  was smart enough. After the “mir­ror of the mind” tech­nique my desire to be that suc­cess­ful per­son I know I was always meant to be just sort of took over! I fig­ured that cash wasn’t just going to lit­er­ally fall out of the sky but the more I con­cen­trated on that image of me being all that I ever wanted to be, doors started open­ing up all around. I never real­ized how many grants and schol­ar­ships are really out there! Thank good­ness for the peo­ple who sin­cerely want to help oth­ers get educated!

The whole school thing is only part of it. I’m 27 and had already been seri­ously strug­gling with alco­hol and drugs. I had a very good job but was incred­i­bly stressed all the time and so I would turn to my expen­sive habit of crys­tal meth or cocaine and liquor to for­get any resposi­bil­i­ties I had. By the time I came around to remem­ber­ing, I would be com­pletely broke. I had no control.

At the begin­ning of last sum­mer I real­ized I didn’t want to be this destruc­tive per­son I saw in the mir­ror any­more. I wanted to change. I for­got what it meant to have pur­pose or to dream or to wake up not need­ing an “upper.” I started look­ing up things like prayer and med­i­ta­tion on the inter­net and came across names like Jose Silva and Burt Gold­man. They had very inter­est­ing con­cepts, I thought. Definit­ley not the usual “fire and brim­stone!” bit. I was tired of being scared of get­ting sent to hell. I needed some help here! Burt looked like a nice man so I read what he had to say and that intro­duced me to the Silva Method.

Since I started the Silva Life Sys­tem phe­nom­e­nal things have hap­pened. I learned to shift my entire focus or per­spec­tive on pos­i­tive things. I cut back on my drug use a great deal by the time I started the pro­gram but the urge was still very much there. By then I had gained quite a few pounds because I was replac­ing drugs with food. Need­less to say, that didn’t sit too well with me when I actu­ally saw how much weight I had gained! So I began walk­ing a mile a day, then walk­ing half a mile and jog­ging half a mile. Scott, today I walk one mile and run two miles every sin­gle day and I feel FANTASTIC! School is breeze, I think clearly than ever, I’m not stressed or wor­ried about any­thing and best of all, I’m sober and I love it!

I would like to thank Laura for all that she is doing. This could not have come at a bet­ter time for me!”