One of the most excit­ing improve­ments that we are bring­ing to Silva Method Life are exclu­sive new arti­cles from pro­lific Silva lec­tur­ers and speak­ers from all around the world.

Our first guest fea­ture comes from Dr. Are­toula Ful­lam, a trained clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist work­ing with Silva Method New Jersey.

Dr Are­toula Ful­lam with Jose Silva

Dynamic Med­i­ta­tion Train­ing vs. Pas­sive Relax­ation Training

By Are­toula Ful­lam, Ph.D., Psy.D., SMCI

Deep Relax­ation Train­ing or pas­sive med­i­ta­tion teaches you how to enter deep states of relax­ation eas­ily and com­fort­ably for the whole pur­pose to relax and reduce stress. As a pos­i­tive side effect, this relax­ation response as Dr. Her­bert Ben­son calls it, is related with some pos­i­tive phys­i­o­log­i­cal effects that calm the mind and cause some mea­sur­able phys­i­o­log­i­cal changes. For exam­ple, blood pres­sure low­ers, anx­i­ety is decreased, pain dimin­ishes, but all those effects are tem­po­rary; fur­ther­more, this is done from the outer level of con­scious­ness and this prac­tice does not cor­rect the cause of the anx­i­ety, or the cause of the pain, or the cause of any symp­tom. Why? Because pas­sive med­i­ta­tion is aim­ing at relax­ing the mind not the body. The body response reflects the minds’ tem­po­rary calm­ing down, but when the mind becomes active again as the per­sons starts to think again the mind jumps entrains again at the beta level of aware­ness and the symp­toms, anx­i­eties, pain, depres­sion and all ail­ments return again.

With pas­sive relax­ation the ben­e­fits are wide and mea­sur­able phys­i­o­log­i­cally. Relax­ation helps peo­ple to relax tem­porar­ily but does not teach peo­ple to man­age the stres­sors effec­tively at the level of the symp­toms, nor to get rid of the source of the stres­sor and the symp­toms. The pos­i­tive effects on one’s health and well­ness need lots of prac­tice and many years to accrue given that the indi­vid­ual does not get discouraged.

The grad­u­ate of Jose Silva’s Dynamic Med­i­ta­tion learns not only men­tal relax­ation, which is rel­a­tively easy to learn but phys­i­cal relax­ation by focus­ing mind on the body parts, and cause them to relax with mind at the inner level of aware­ness. Grad­u­ates of Dynamic Med­i­ta­tion learn to use their mind, a fac­ulty of Human Intel­li­gence, to com­mu­ni­cate with Bio­log­i­cal Intel­li­gence (known as the body’s wis­dom), which in turn obeys to the human mind, which is the high­est form of intel­li­gence on the planet and the symptom(s) or ill­ness is cured at the level of cre­ation or cause. At the alpha level of con­scious­ness the per­son becomes cen­tered and bal­anced and is able to use mind dynam­i­cally to make cor­rec­tions at the root of the prob­lem with cre­ative visu­al­iza­tion, not at the level where the symp­toms man­i­fest as symp­toms but at the level the symp­toms originated.

This pro­found awak­en­ing that the body obeys to the mind and that the pos­si­bil­i­ties are lit­er­ally end­less through cre­ative visu­al­iza­tion at the inner level of con­scious­ness or the alpha brain­wave activ­ity makes Dynamic Med­i­ta­tion unique and dif­fer­ent from other forms of meditation.

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If you enjoyed this arti­cle and inter­ested in attend­ing a sem­i­nar hosted by Dr Are­toula Ful­lam, here’s your chance to meet a real Silva hero!

She will be host­ing a sem­i­nar in the New Jer­sey area on the 10th and 11th of November.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

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If you are a Silva Grad­u­ate, come and meet Dr Are­toulla on:

Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 3, 2007 at 1:00 at Pal­isades Cen­ter, West Nyack NY in the H&M court on the first floor

Dr. Are­toula Ful­lam has been selected as one of ten heroes from the Lower Hud­son Valley/New Jer­sey region. She has been awarded this honor for her ded­i­ca­tion and com­mit­ment to help­ing oth­ers to draw upon their own power to heal, renew and obtain what­ever they desire. She will be rec­og­nized, in par­tic­u­lar, for all those who she has helped who were afflicted with MS and other debil­i­tat­ing dis­eases. On her nom­i­na­tion form Carmela DellaValle of Walling­ton, N.J. wrote:

“My son has lim­ited gross and fine motor skills. He also has prob­lems swal­low­ing. Since we took the sem­i­nar, he has been mak­ing some sounds, and drink­ing much bet­ter. I have reduced my high blood pres­sure and been sleep­ing bet­ter. I also have more energy and patience.” In regard to the sem­i­nar she said “This was a week­end I will use for the rest of my life. I feel more con­fi­dent in con­trol­ling ‘projects’ in my life. I now know I have com­plete con­trol of my health chal­lenges. Thank you for show­ing us how to have con­trol and change our lives for the BETTER.”

Her son who ver­i­fied the nom­i­na­tion added: “It is an expe­ri­ence I will use for­ever. I have made progress in swal­low­ing and mak­ing sounds. I am able to relax and chan­nel my energy.”

We urge ALL Silva Grad­u­ates to come to honor Dr. Ful­lam for her ded­i­ca­tion to the bet­ter­ment of human­ity and to have an oppor­tu­nity to meet a truly remark­able Silva lecturer.

For more infor­ma­tion visit:

The Pal­isades Center

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Bet­ter and better!