This video is amaz­ing. It’s only a few min­utes long but it speaks vol­umes about the power of the sub­con­scious mind and the impor­tant role it plays with cre­ativ­ity and prob­lem solving.

Have you ever been in a sit­u­a­tion where you were “stuck” try­ing to come up with some­thing cre­ative? When you “sleep on it”, your sub­con­scious mind is really work­ing on all the data that you’ve con­sumed and most of the time, it will give you a bet­ter solu­tion in the morning!

Here, John Cleese, an Acad­emy Award-nominated Eng­lish actor, come­dian, writer, and film pro­ducer, talks about cre­ativ­ity or prob­lem solv­ing and the sub­con­scious mind. While his tech­nique is to “sleep” on an idea or the project that he’s work­ing on, we at Silva know that you can get the same effect when you meditate.

As Silva stu­dents, you already know the unlim­ited power of your mind. When you’re at the Alpha or Theta level, you’ll have access to wealth of infor­ma­tion that will put you way ahead of the rest. This will also help with your work, ideas, cre­ativ­ity and prob­lem solv­ing. So remem­ber this the next time you’re “stuck” — Just take a deep breath, get into your Alpha or Theta level and voila! You’ll see the direc­tions you need to take to get answers to your prob­lems

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

Do you know that the Silva Method has been stud­ied and researched in about 8 uni­ver­si­ties across the coun­try such as Trin­ity Uni­ver­sity, Duke Uni­ver­sity and the Uni­ver­sity of Texas?

Not only that, it’s also been cov­ered by numer­ous major dailies such as the Wash­ing­ton Post and The New York Times.

Here’s an arti­cle that’s writ­ten by a news jour­nal­ist, James Cren­shaw that was pub­lished in FATE Mag­a­zine.  Here, he talks about the var­i­ous exper­i­ments which he per­son­ally observed with a few pro­fes­sors on psy­chic heal­ing. The meth­ods used, as well as the results are truly inter­est­ing and mind-blowing.

Down­load the Report Here

I know that there are those of you out there who doubt your own abil­i­ties of heal­ing, which means you doubt the power of your mind. So I rec­om­mend that you read this report  to erase any hes­i­ta­tions you may have which will hin­der your abil­ity to heal.

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

As Silva stu­dents, you already know that thoughts lead to actions which lead to real­ity. In short, your thoughts are your real­ity.

We’re very for­tu­nate to have dis­cov­ered this truth and be pre­sented with a golden oppor­tu­nity to take con­trol of our real­ity. Arna Burg is a clas­sic case of a per­son who turned her life around the minute she dis­cov­ered the Silva Method.

Arna is now a Silva instruc­tor and a suc­cess­ful busi­ness owner. I’ve posted her story below for your read­ing plea­sure and as a source of inspiration.

Change Your Think­ing — Change Your Life

Want to sleep bet­ter, change unwanted habits, improve your busi­ness and have the life of your dreams? Then think about it! The power of your thoughts can change your life.

You may have heard that you can achieve any­thing you set your mind to – but is it really that sim­ple? Yes, it is sci­en­tif­i­cally proven! Best sell­ing authors call it “The Secret” or the “Law of Attrac­tion.” Jose Silva has per­fected the tech­niques and The Silva Method Work­shop now teaches you how to put these pow­er­ful tools into prac­tice. If you want to not only know more, but cre­ate more with your thoughts, you can expe­ri­ence the power of your own mind by attend­ing this Silva Method work­shop pre­sented by Arna Berg who claims she owes much of her abun­dant suc­cess in life to The Silva Method.

Learn to improve your life

After years of work­ing for some­one else, Arna explained that cir­cum­stances led her to start a lit­tle busi­ness in Simp­son Bay Yacht Club and she opened the doors of The Busi­ness Cen­tre. In the begin­ning it didn’t go very well, every day she won­dered how to attract clients, whether the busi­ness could pay her a salary and if the busi­ness would even sur­vive to the end of the first year. In 1992 her friend Mal­colm Maid­well read a book about the Silva Method and he per­suaded Arna and a small group of friends from St. Maarten to fly to New York and take this four-day work­shop. The things she learned there dra­mat­i­cally changed her life.

Hi friends!

I’m sure you remem­ber my very good friend, Vishen Lakhi­ani who also hap­pens to be one of our most suc­cess­ful Silva grad­u­ates. He was also a Silva instruc­tor for 5 years and is now run­ning a $10 mil­lion dol­lar online pub­lish­ing business.

Vishen was one of the speak­ers at Engage Today 2009. It was truly one of the most inspir­ing talks I had ever seen, so I thought I would share the video here with you.

Remem­ber what I told you about the ban­is­ter effect - when you see some­one doing and suc­ceed­ing at some­thing that you’ve always wanted to do, you will uncon­sciously form a belief that you can do it too, and prob­a­bly end up doing it.

Engage Today was one of the biggest per­sonal growth events of the decade. Trans­for­ma­tional lead­ers from all over the world, like His Holi­ness The Dalai Lama and Sir Richard Bran­son flew into Cal­gary to share their wis­dom on mak­ing the world, busi­ness, and each other better.

Watch the video and let Vishen tell you…

• How he grew his com­pany over 400% in rev­enues over a 1 year period
• What “the state of flow” is, and how it holds the key to ener­giz­ing your company
• His expla­na­tion of “the Para­dox of Inten­tion” and why hap­pi­ness can­not be tied to your goals
• What to do if you’re in a job or career that you don’t like
• Does it make sense to hire entre­pre­neurs into your business?

I hope you found this video inspir­ing.  I know I cer­tainly did! Let me know what you think, share your thoughts with me in the com­ments box below. Till then…

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

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

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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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 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

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!

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