We know that the Silva Life system has had a huge impact in many peoples’ lives, because we get love letters from our customers on a daily basis telling us about their personal transformations. We love your letters, because at the end of the day, that’s really what we’re aiming for, to help you in achieving the life of your design. But we wanted to know something deeper, to get to the root cause of something. So here’s what we asked…

What was the number one reason you purchased the Silva Life System?

The results surprised us.

An exceeding large percentage said that they loved the free lessons and wanted to learn more. Many of the Silva customers that completed this very short survey gave us very useful feedback, by leaving a comment in the ‘others’ section.

Overall, what we’ve learned from this survey was perfect – we know that we should continue to improve the lessons and give you more valuable content.

So that’s what we’ll do We’d like to thank everyone in the Silva community that took part in the survey, it’s been really helpful to us!

If you have any additional feedback you’d like to pass along, leave a comment below and we’ll be sure to take note!

This survey was conducted in March 2012 and sent out to all our 41 548 Silva Life System customers

Ever since the time I was a little girl the Silva Method has been a huge part of my life. I can’t even begin to tell you how blessed I feel to get the chance to engage and connect with the Silva Community.

Today is a very special day for the Silva Community around the world, it’s the birthday of Jose Silva.

This video is a compilation of some great memories of Jose Silva’s life, the founder of The Silva Method. Jose Silva was a businessman, athlete, artist, singer, educator, philosopher, the world’s leading scientist in the field of the mind and human potential, and the founder of the world’s number one mind development program.

Silva was the leader in the mind development field. He spent his entire lifetime developing his creative and intuitive abilities and teaching others to find their own abilities within themselves.

Here is a sweet note from Saralee , the cheerful grandchild of Jose (She is the one in his lap in the last picture of the video :p )

“Growing up as one of Jose Silva’s grandchild was a wonderful experience! Spending time with him and the rest of my family at the ranch is one of my fondest memories of my childhood. I remember my grandfather driving us around the ranch on his tractor, wavering in and out of the brush with me on his lap, pulling his other grandchildren in a big red wagon attached to his tractor. He was also very supportive of my creativity. When I was about three years old, I remember “decorating” the entire wall of the stairway, as far as I could reach with a Hello Kitty rubber stamp and while my mother was furious with me, my grandfather just smiled and complimented my creativity.”

Enjoy and share with us your thoughts about this incredible man who left one of the most valuable mind development research for the humanity.

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Better and Better,

The Silva Team

As some of you know, the Silva Master’s Circle edition Summer of Silva 2011 just finished the second month which was the month dedicated to develop your Intuition having Ken Coscia as Mentor during the whole month.

The Silva Intuition System was a great month to learn  how to align your conscious mind with your spiritual purpose.  Learn to tap into your intuition to use this ability as a guiding light in the beautiful journey of your life.

The surprise was that at the end of the month Ken and the most active participants of the Summer of Silva had a group call to ask any questions about the course and here it is the audio so you all can listen and let us know what you think about it:

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What are your questions about Summer of Silva?

Would you like to participate in the next call?

What do you think we can improve for the next session?

Better and Better,

The Silva Team

Mistaken at times as ‘silver’ or ‘Sylvia’, the name of the course is derived from the man who founded and developed SILVA, the method.

Jose Silva was born nearly 80 years ago, in southern Texas, in a small town called Laredo, near the border of Mexico. An American of Mexican ancestry, he was four when his father died, leaving him to help care for two younger brothers and a sister. Jose became a newsboy at four and a shoeshine boy at six and was already gathering experiences that would serve him well for the rest of his life. He lived with an uncle, who helped him keep the files of separate lists of customers who wanted newspapers or shoeshines or both, to enable him to anticipate needs and thus to render better service. As early as then Jose was learning to use the logical left side of the brain for record keeping activities as well as the creative and intuitive right side to come up with more innovative ideas for earning more money and serving his customers better. As he grew older, he took on more business activities such as distributing advertising circulars of grocery stores, office cleaning and window washing, lawn mowing and gardening, chauffeuring wealthy land ladies on their collection. He also helped build a hamburger stand which became the Brown Derby, one of the biggest and best-known restaurants in Laredo. Earning more than his uncle did, he became the main provide of the family. He never had a single year of formal education.

When word of Silva’s effective training spread, his neighbors started volunteering their children for him to train. He was soon working with hundreds of children. His research sparked his renewed interest in parapsychology and led to an invitation to lecture to members of the Avea Arte Association in Amarillo, Texas. That was in 1966. It was Silva’s first time to discourse in public, and on his method. The date marked the official birth of the Silva Mind Control Method. Silva was then 53 years old. At an age when most thought of retiring, he had begun a new career.

Today, the Silva Mind Control Method has been propagated in some 100 countries all over the world, translated into 29 languages, and has benefited over ten million people.

The techniques have been proven and tested not only in 22 years of research and experimentation but also in 27 years of sharing with millions of practitioners the world over, of different races, cultures and creeds. And the bottom line is “Silva works!” It works for everybody with no exception. The only prerequisite is that people who attend “have a mind” and want to use it. Having a mind certainly doesn’t guarantee that one automatically uses it correctly and effectively.

METHOD

The Silva Method refers to a system, a scientific step-by-step process of developing and using the mind effectively.

Silva Method is not a religion, and it does not go against any religion. Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Buddhists, Baptists and people of other denominations have taken the training and no one has thought the learnings to be contrary to their creeds or faiths. Interestingly enough, many have said thay they have been spiritually deepened by the experience. They appreciate and value their relationship with their Creator more after the course and thus pray more fervently. They have become more devout.

Silva is not a cult. Nor does it worship any deity or revolve around a single personality. It is not necessary to know the details of Jose Silva’s life, for example, to lead a better life. It is only necessary to use the techniques under given conditions to achieve the desired results. The is no blind

allegiance to personal promulgations nor a rigid adherence to group norms or rituals. There is no obvious or subtle intent to control the members. Furthermore, there is no imposition of tithing or obligatory reciprocation of favors.

Silva does not dwell in the occult. It does not deal with black magic of witchcraft and other fraudulent practices commonly associated with occultism. It does, however, demystify the understanding of the functioning of the human brain and the mind. An estimated eighty-five percent of everything we know about the human brain and mind today came from only the last twenty to thirty years of research. Prior to that, it was ensconced in ignorance or mysticism. What people didn’t know or understand, they attributed to supernatural or paranormal forces. To the caveman, lighting was a supernatural phenomenon. And modern day humans would have regarded it the same way if there had been no knowledge to liberate and enlighten him.

The Silva method is admittedly hypnosis-like but it is definitely not hypnosis. In hypnosis, the subject is at the complete mercy of the hypnotherapist while in Silva Mind Control, the subject retains full control and complete dominion over his sensory faculties.

MIND

In language, the mind is often interchanged with the brain. However, the two are not synonymous. The mind is likewise equated with the psyche or behavior, yet is it neither.

The mind is referred to as a life force – the life force that enters a person at the time of conception and the same life force that leaves him at the time of death.

The mind is best described by its functions in processing information. It is awareness, reflection, focus of attention It is also thinking, imagining, and perceiving. It is the master sense, the sensor of the intelligence.

Imagine a submarine. It has the adaptability to travel in and out of water. To gather information when partially submerged, it uses its periscope which is above the water and which feeds the input into the processing center. To derive data when completely submerged, the submarine utilizes sonar equipment for navigating a course.

The brain is similar to the submarine. It has the periscopic five physical senses to pick up information from the outside environment. For information at deeper levels, sonar-equivalent equipment are resorted to for picking up information beneath the surface.

Of what use are the equipment if there is no person desiring the information? The intelligence is the information seeker that tunes into its sensory channels, the periscopic five senses or the sonar type instrument to search out bits of information above or beneath the surface to solve particular problems. The mind is the sensor of the intelligence.

Why study the mind at all?

To most people, the mind is intangible and too abstract to grasp. Not a few consider the study of the mind as an intellectual exercise in futility indulged by scholars and academicians. On the contrary, it is a fundamental, factual and practical reality that children as young as six years old are exposed to and taught.

Man is characterized by MIND/BODY or BODY/MIND. It is not right to say mind and body as if these were two separate, distinct entities. They are one – integrated and whole. The body does not move without the direction, regulation, and control of the mind. It is a mere extension of what the mind thinks and feels.

If you will pause from reading this page and look around you, you will note that the book you are holding, the chair you are sitting on, the objects and furnishings you observe in your surrounding are made by people – first as ideas. Before any physical thing came to be, it was first conceived in the mental realm.

It is written in Genesis: “In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. The earth was without form, and void: darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

If we think about the creation, we will realize that it is actually a mental act – an idea, a concept made manifest. The physical universe is evidence of that which has already taken place in the act of creation—in the mind. The world we live in is truly a mental world.

Everything we see around us, our buildings, bridges and roads, airplanes, ships and spacecraft, procedures and laws, were all ideas brought into being through the process of creative visualization. That there appears to be an orderly arrangement of things in the universe attests to an intellect, a primary source, that permeates every atom, every aspect of life in the

infinite universe. Everything in some respect is a product or creation of that universal mind. There is no physical reality unless there is first a mental reality. The mind is the fundamental dimension in which everything first takes form before it is manifested in the physical world.

CONTROL

The words MIND CONTROL sound sinister. They are erroneously associated with brainwashing, much like what people think the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States or the communists to do their enemies. Or others may have the misconception that they can learn to control other people’s minds, such as their spouses’, to deter them from destructive vices. Nothing is farther from the truth. It is challenging enough to control our own mind without having to think about and be bothered with the control of other people’s minds.

Mind control means learning to control our own mind to control our own body and control our own life. Control starts with our thoughts which influence our feelings and affect our actions.

The primary law in the universe is that of control…mind control. The amount of mental health we enjoy is directly proportional to the degree of control we feel we have. When we experience mental well-being, which means we feel harmonious and good about ourselves, we are in control of our lives. When we feel low and depressed and suffer from disharmony, we inevitably have lost control of ourselves.

“I’ve got lots of problems.”

Many complain. I’ve got problems. You’ve got problems. Everyone’s got problems. If people have no problems, they may as well be dead. For as long as we are alive, there are and will be problems. That’s what living life is all about, coping and solving, learning and being.

When people feel a loss of control over themselves and their destiny and just hope that somehow things will turn out right for them, they are living according to the law of accident. They regard themselves as helpless victims of circumstances in which they have little or no control over the developments. Consequently, they wallow in negativity, misery, depression and unhappiness. Chance, accident and predestined fate are not responsible for the things that happen. They are mere unexplained or incomprehensible causes.

She wanted the same things as other kids her age.

She dreamt of being a biker. A cowgirl. She wanted to be Mowgli from the Jungle Book.

And when she was 17, she was fully convinced that just like everyone else, she could get her driver’s license.

Caroline lived with an extraordinary degree of self-belief.

And when she finally realized the truth, it was this self-belief that helped her accomplish the *impossible*.

Set aside 15 minutes and watch this TED Talks video. Because in it is one of the most inspiring and affecting lessons you’ll ever learn:

Share your thoughts and inspire the Silva Community. What did you think of Caroline’s story? And what would YOU accomplish if, just like her, you could liberate yourself from fear and self-doubt?

This 7-minute video is a catchy musical manifesto that reminds you how to live a fulfilling and liberated life, how to stay positive, how to love and honor your friends and family…

And why you should never, EVER read beauty magazines.

We love this quote from Steve Jobs, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

It’s time to start living life on YOUR terms.

Enjoy:

Did you like it? What was your favorite part? Speak up, the Silva community wants your thoughts

But what do you see when you dive deeper into the idea of Independence Day, and look for its true meaning?

I see freedom. Not so much political or nationalistic freedom, but personal freedom.

I have the freedom to make a difference in the world.

I have the freedom to love the people that matter to me.

I have the freedom to pursue my goals.

I have the freedom to express gratitude.

I have the freedom to dream.

What does Independence Day mean to YOU? Share your thoughts with the rest of the Silva community. There’s no right or wrong answer, there’s only what YOU feel

We have prepared for you 2 powerful exercises that will teach you how to tap your subconscious mind for intuitive guidance by using your dreams. So be sure to listen to them before you head off for tonight’s Zzzz’s

With this FREE exercise, you will learn:

• Learn about dreams, various types and when they occur.
• Understand the purpose of dreams and why they happen.
• Remember and interpret dreams and extract the most value from your experiences.
• Master the art of learning to solve problems through your dreams; when you naturally at your highest state of mind.

Listen or Download the Audio here!

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The alpha level is for dreaming: for dreams at night, and also for “daydreams.” Therefore, it is worth our time to learn about dreams, since we want to learn more about the alpha level, and gain more control in the alpha dimension.

There are many benefits to learning more about our dreams, our dream states, and our dream images. Not only will you develop more skill of alpha functioning, but you can improve your life in many ways through the control and use of the dream state.

We all Have Dreams

Scientists assure us that everyone dreams, though not everyone remembers those dreams. A person may not recall dreams for many reasons: perhaps nightmares frightened a child, and it became easier not to recall any dreams at all. Or perhaps that “voice within” is calling to a person through dreams, but the person does not want to listen, and shuts off dream recall.

You can learn to remember several dreams every night by following the Silva Method mental procedure for Dream Control. Remember to begin slowly, learning to recall one dream a night before progressing to recalling several dreams each night.

What do Dreams Mean?

What do your dreams mean? This is something you can learn through practice and through the study of the most interesting person in the world: You.

We each have our own unique experience in this life, and so each of us adopts unique patterns of symbolic expression of the events of our lives. You can learn what symbolic expressions you have programmed into your “bio-computer” by keeping a dream log or dream diary.

When you awaken with a dream, write down a brief account of what the dream is about. In the morning, enter your level, and write out a more detailed account of the dream. Be sure to write it down as soon as you have it – transfer it to the physical dimension, or you risk losing the memory of it.

After writing down your dream, enter your level and ask yourself, “How could this dream relate to what has been happening in my life?” This will help you to understand the symbolism you use, and over a period of time, you will gain so much understanding that you will interpret very rapidly.

This can be one of the most effective exercises you will ever do to assist you in understanding yourself better, and your purpose in this world.

It seems to be important to experience normal sleep and dream cycles each night. It might be important because it gives us an opportunity to file information away at other dimensions.

Now for the ultimate step: controlling dreams, and using them to solve problems.

Solve Problems while Dreaming

Besides the obvious benefits of ensuring that you have only the kind of dreams you desire, and using your dream time to explore your memory banks and inner conscious levels to give you creative answers to problems, you will derive other benefits. You will develop greater control of the alpha dimension, and you will develop more skill in creating and controlling images within this dimension.

If you experience nightmares, then use the techniques you have learned to eliminate them. At your level, acknowledge the problem, and say: “I had this nightmare; I don’t like it; I don’t want to have it every again…” and so forth to eliminate nightmares.

It appears that we each have a minimum of four sleep and dream cycles each night, each cycle lasting about ninety minutes. This gives us ample opportunities to utilize dreams and thus benefit in many ways. The earlier sleep and dream cycles are the deepest and have short dream periods. Later cycles are much lighter and have longer dream periods. By programming yourself, you can awaken at the ideal time to recall your dreams. If you awaken too early, there is no dream, if you awaken in the middle of the dream, you may be confused, but when you awaken near the end of a dram, you can remember and understand it.

So if you do not have enough time during the day to do all that you want to do, learn to use a portion of your sleep time to get more done.

What was the latest dream about… share your stories below