Hi Friends,

I was catch­ing up on read­ing the other day and I found this quote:

“If we don’t get the epi­demic of child­hood obe­sity in check, for the first time in a cen­tury chil­dren will be look­ing for­ward to a shorter life expectancy than their parents.”

I remem­ber when this first came out as head­line news in 2002. There were  count­less arti­cles and news reports on what could have pos­si­bly caused this health epi­demic — fast food, video games, adver­tis­ing, pop culture.

What was really inter­est­ing to me, is that every­body was blam­ing exter­nal fac­tors for the poor health of our kids. It was always some­one else’s fault, from cor­po­ra­tions to the health care sys­tem or even the government.

This blast from the past reminded me how grate­ful I am to know that we are all respon­si­ble for our own health — men­tally, phys­i­cally, emo­tion­ally and spir­i­tu­ally. I strongly believe that we were all born heal­ers and have the capac­ity to learn how be in com­plete con­trol of our health.

Whats refresh­ing to know is that in this day and age, I don’t seem to be alone in this belief.

For exam­ple in the movie Avatar, what moved me is the pow­er­ful mes­sage that we are all con­nected and have the abil­ity to heal our­selves and oth­ers.

This is me as an Avatar — If you want to look this good, I have a link on my face­book page

Did you also get this mes­sage when you watched it?

Even though Avatar is a sci­ence fic­tion movie, it seems as though the con­cept of  heal­ing one­self is now becom­ing more and more accepted.

Although I’m sure not every­one accepts this belief.  When­ever there is a new rad­i­cal idea that chal­lenges cur­rent world view, it will always receive some degree of criticism.

Alter­na­tive heal­ing used to be one of those rad­i­cal ideas. It is now cur­rently between the stages of growth and matu­rity. It’s been stud­ied, val­i­dated and is now mov­ing towards gen­eral acceptance.

Here at Silva we have con­ducted count­less research projects and pub­lished  reports on sci­en­tific evi­dence behind energy heal­ing since the 1960’s. My father, Jose Silva, was one of the first to sci­en­tif­i­cally prove the power of mind and how it can heal the human body.

So what’s next?

Maybe it is because I grew up exposed to my father’s research, I always believed that energy heal­ing will become a nat­ural part of the med­ical community.

What I want to know is what you think.

Have we become a health­ier soci­ety  in 2010 than in 2002?

Do you believe there has been a shift in global con­scious­ness?

Are peo­ple tak­ing more con­trol of their own health? What has changed in your life with your beliefs towards your health?

So is Avatar really sci­ence fic­tion after all?

I look for­ward to dis­cuss your thoughts.

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

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!

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!

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Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

The Silva Life Sys­tem isn’t a one time thing. Not like a pill you pop and hope for the best. It’s a way of life that tran­scends time. It’s a real­iza­tion of your true potential.

Silva has helped thou­sands of peo­ple around the world. They may have started off poor, bro­ken hearted, sick, or depressed. But like you, they are on a jour­ney of self-discovery, enlight­en­ment, and spir­i­tual growth. Not to men­tion per­fect health.

The Silva method embod­ies every aspect of your life and because rep­e­ti­tion is the key to learn­ing, we want to share with you 5 of the many rea­sons why the Silva Life Sys­tem is tak­ing you from a life of medi­oc­rity to a life of excite­ment, joy, adven­ture, and peace.

If you have a story to share with us of your jour­ney and how Silva has impacted your life please drop me a com­ment below or send us a You Tube video and you could be rewarded with the Silva Intu­ition Pro­gram for Free.

I am look­ing for 5 inspir­ing tes­ti­mo­ni­als that we will reward with the Silva Intu­ition Program.

1. The Silva Method has influ­enced every other major per­sonal devel­op­ment methodology.

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The act of ques­tion­ing is a trait exclu­sive to our species. We have always chal­lenged our poten­tial, and the pos­si­bil­i­ties that lie within. And while a great deal of these ques­tions remain unan­swered, we are slowly but surely begin­ning to dis­cover answers in areas once shrouded in darkness.

And at times, some ques­tions are best left unan­swered…until the right time.

Allow me to explain. At one point in time, my father for­bade me to share cer­tain ele­ments of the Silva Method. Prac­tices that empower the user’s mind with the abil­ity to heal him/herself and oth­ers. Prac­tices that allow the fine tun­ing of one’s energy, to the point where con­nect­ing with one’s higher self and cre­at­ing a joy and success-filled real­ity becomes effort­less.

Prac­tices that, in as few words as pos­si­ble, give you the power to unlock the Unlim­ited poten­tial of your mind.

So why did Jose Silva not want these prac­tices released to the pub­lic? The answer is quite sim­ple. In the 80’s, tech­nol­ogy and human con­scious­ness were prim­i­tive when com­pared to today’s stan­dards. Peo­ple were much less open to ideas and beliefs that hov­ered any­where out­side of their com­fort zones. And so my father knew that these prac­tices, with their incred­i­ble promises and ben­e­fits, would likely have scared many peo­ple.

At the time, absorb­ing even the most basic ele­ments of the Silva Method took a con­sid­er­able leap of faith!

But, what he didn’t stop me from was believ­ing that any­thing is pos­si­ble, and that the mind still holds many secrets for the bet­ter­ment of humankind.

My older sis­ter, Isabel, was the first to be trained as a psy­chic by my father. She has honed her abil­i­ties to the point where she can see through a person’s body, and imme­di­ately detect health prob­lems like can­cer. She can find lost objects, and pos­sesses an under­stand­ing of the world and its inner work­ings that go far beyond the per­ceived lim­i­ta­tions of ‘nor­mal’ people.

Skep­tics may find this hard to swal­low, but I assure you it is true. To this day, Isabel uses the power of her mind to help baf­fled doc­tors detect prob­lems that machines and con­ven­tional analy­sis fail to pinpoint.

I’ll soon show you more exam­ples of sim­i­larly incred­i­ble feats, so that you may see them for yourself.

So why am I telling you this? Well before I offer you the solu­tion, I first need you to believe. Remem­ber yes­ter­day I wrote about Roger Ban­nis­ter? He was the first man to run a mile in 4 min­utes — a feat con­sid­ered impos­si­ble at the time.

But strangely, after he accom­plished this record, it was bro­ken only 46 days later by another run­ner. And again, and again, and again not long after by other runners.

Why? Because once oth­ers saw he could do it, they knew they could too. It was a chain reac­tion that’s now known as the ‘Ban­nis­ter Effect’.

And that’s exactly what I’m going to do with you. I want you to run this mile, and break all pre­vi­ous records.

No more bound­aries, no more doubts, no more self lim­it­ing beliefs.

All you need to do open your mind. Are you ready to believe?

In this video Laura explains how the par­ent needs to be the child’s model. She also shares some of the wis­dom taught to her by her father, Jose Silva, founder of The Silva Method.

Watch the video.

Free Sci­en­tific Report on the Silva Method

In the begin­ning, José Silva was alone in his research. Even his wife Paula was skep­ti­cal and cau­tious until she even­tu­ally saw the ben­e­fits in the work he was doing with their chil­dren. A few friends in Laredo became inter­ested and lis­tened to his ideas and helped him when he asked them to, but many more were sus­pi­cious and even hostile.

Even­tu­ally Silva’s work attracted the atten­tion of one sci­en­tist, who became a close friend and asso­ciate, and who brought the research find­ings to the atten­tion of many other sci­en­tists. This pio­neer­ing research, over­com­ing many obsta­cles and chal­lenges, has pro­vided José Silva with many won­der­ful mem­o­ries of the peo­ple and events that helped us to take the first step into the sec­ond phase of human evo­lu­tion on the planet by suc­ceed­ing with metaphysics.

This is the story about how sci­en­tists became aware of the new sci­ence that José Silva has named “psychorientology.”

Want to learn more about how Sci­ence dis­cov­ered the Silva Method?

DOWNLOAD THE FREE REPORT HERE (RIGHT-CLICK SAVE-To-DESKTOP)

And when you’re done leave us a com­ment and tell us what you think of our newly updated report.

IMPORTANT: Don’t for­get to read all the way through to find out about a spe­cial oppor­tu­nity to those who have down­loaded the report from us. We’re going to guar­an­tee that it’s huge!

The leg­endary Jack Can­field has some amaz­ing words to say about the Silva Method.

Jack Canfield’s Bio

As the beloved orig­i­na­tor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, Jack Can­field fos­tered the emer­gence of inspi­ra­tional antholo­gies as a genre — and watched it grow to a bil­lion dol­lar mar­ket. As the dri­ving force behind the devel­op­ment and deliv­ery of over 100 mil­lion books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul® fran­chise, Jack Can­field is uniquely qual­i­fied to talk about success.

Behind the empire Time Mag­a­zine called the “pub­lish­ing phe­nom­e­non of the decade” is America’s lead­ing expert in cre­at­ing peak per­for­mance for entre­pre­neurs, cor­po­rate lead­ers, man­agers, sales pro­fes­sion­als, cor­po­rate employ­ees and edu­ca­tors. He is a com­pelling, empow­er­ing and com­pas­sion­ate coach who for the past 30 years has helped hun­dreds of thou­sands of indi­vid­u­als achieve their dreams.

Affec­tion­ately known as “America’s #1 Suc­cess Coach”, Jack has stud­ied and reported on what makes suc­cess­ful peo­ple dif­fer­ent. He knows what moti­vates them, what dri­ves them, and what inspires them. He brings this crit­i­cal insight to count­less audi­ences inter­na­tion­ally — shar­ing his suc­cess strate­gies in the media, with com­pa­nies, uni­ver­si­ties and pro­fes­sional asso­ci­a­tions in over 20 coun­tries around the world.

We strongly rec­om­mend his pro­gram “The Suc­cess Principles”

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Aug 11 was Jose Silva’s Birthday!

Cel­e­brat­ing the Life & Legacy of Jose Silva: An inti­mate, inside look into the life of the man who changed the world from those who were clos­est to him.

In this rare and touch­ing inter­view, Laura Silva, the daugh­ter of Jose, and Burt Gold­man, close per­sonal friend of Jose and top Silva instruc­tor, reunite on Jose Silva’s birth­day to rec­ol­lect their fond­est mem­o­ries of him, his life, and his legacy.

Gain an up close and per­sonal per­spec­tive of Jose Silva – the genius, the reformer, the friend and the father – from those who were clos­est to him, right now…

• Laura’s ear­li­est mem­o­ries of her father when she was 5 years old
• Jose Silva as a father, a friend, a men­tor and a guid­ing force
• Laura rec­ol­lects a child­hood of being treated dif­fer­ently by oth­ers because of her uncon­ven­tional upbring­ing dur­ing the times when peo­ple didn’t fully under­stand the genius of Jose’s work
• The true story of what hap­pened when Burt intro­duced Jose Silva to Uri Gellar
• Burt rem­i­nisces the last two months of Jose’s life here on earth
• The drive behind Jose’s pas­sion and his astound­ing life goal that changed the world
• The mes­sage Jose left behind for humanity
• Sto­ries and anec­dotes of Jose Silva’s humor, mod­esty and sincerity
• Car­ry­ing the torch of Jose’s mission
• Laura reveals an unex­pected mes­sage that Jose deliv­ered to her on the sig­nif­i­cant day of her father’s birthday
• And much, much more..

Down­load the Inter­view Here »

PS — When you’re lis­tened to the inter­view, please share your thoughts and com­ments here. We’d also love to know about your mem­o­ries of Jose Silva (if you had a chance to meet him) and any impact he his work had on your life.

Jose Silva on The Fac­ulty of the Mind

We’ve recently man­aged to find some very excit­ing archive footage of Silva Method founder, Jose Silva. Thanks to our friends at Silva International!

Taken from his tele­vi­sion pro­gram from 1987, Jose Silva talks about the fac­ul­ties of the mind and how they play an impor­tant role in med­i­ta­tion and self-control!

If you are inter­ested in attend­ing a Silva sem­i­nar:

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