The Silva Method is a series of mental exercises that teaches meditation, relaxation, visualization and thinking in deeper states of consciousness to help improve your life. This made for a fascinating read as I continue on my journey to explore and practice this topic for myself. The first half of the book provide instructions on several of the methods to practice along with descriptions of the available classes, while the second half is focused on sharing results and real life stories about how these techniques have impacted peoples lives. I have already started to implement the first couple steps so I will see how it goes. So far, so good! ( )

Easy to read and good information on the Silva Mond control method. There a few home exercises to practice and learn but it really seems more as an introduction into what the mind control method is rather than a how to guide. Clearly, most information on the method is intended to be given in seminar form, not from this book ( )

Nuestros pensamientos, ideas y creencias condicionan nuestra experiencia vital. Cuando aprendemos a utilizar los recursos más profundos e invisibles de nuestro yo y realizamos cambios sencillos y positivos, podemos vivir una vida más plena y más ajustada a nuestros ideales y deseos.

As a mental health professional, former clergy, hypnotherapist and life coach, I found this to be a wonderful culmination of many tools. A must read. ( )

This was José Silva’s first book on the Silva Mind method. It is what I would call a “must-read”. Learning this method should be made obligatory in all schools and be offered to children at an early age.

José Silva learnt all that he presents in his Mind Control method in the course of working with his own children, years ago, to enable them to do well in school. When he experimented with mental training exercises, the children’s school marks quickly began to improve, and, amazingly, they began to answer his questions before he had asked them – they had become clairvoyant!

In this book, José begins by teaching us how to meditate, to reach Alpha, the state in which our brain waves vibrate at between 7 and 14 cycles per second. We create a mental screen on which we can visualize/imagine our goals, and project the bodies of the subjects we wish to heal, including ourselves.

When imagining what we want, we need to desire that the event take place, believe that it will take place and expect it to take place.

When we work in Alpha, we are in touch with Higher Intelligence and can only create good things. If, for example, we should try to give someone a headache, we are the ones that would get the headache, and/or we would snap out of Alpha.

We hear how José once won 10,000 dollars after receiving a set of lottery numbers in a dream, and we learn how we ourselves can programme for dreams to solve specific problems – though he doesn’t promise that we will win the lottery!

There’s a chapter about using our mind to improve our health, and we learn, specifically, how to get rid of headaches.

We’re informed about what I regard as the most exciting part of Silva, the method we now apparently are taught in the Silva Intuition Course, where we tune into unknown people, spot whatever problems they may have, and correct these problems.

I learnt the Silva Method many years ago and had much success with it, but now I’ve taken a refresher course. Though much practice is necessary, I’ve had a few successes. For example, I tuned into a woman, saw that she had something crooked in her spine, and then immediately after saw the spine straighten out and correct itself. I learnt later that she had had back pains for many years, so I trust the problem has now been corrected. When we see these things clairvoyantly, and very clearly, we are in no doubt that what we see is real.

One method of healing we learn in the book is as follows:

1) Go to your meditative level and project the person onto your mental screen with whatever ailment is troubling him.
2) Place another image on the screen to the left, showing something being done to correct the problem (or correcting the problem yourself).
3) Now project onto the screen – still further left – a vivid image of the person in perfect health, filled with energy and optimism. By visualizing with conviction in Alpha and Theta you are causing. Visualize the results you want as being already achieved.
Even persons addicted to hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine can be healed through the Silva method. I myself easily got rid of the smoking habit many years ago through a Silva technique – I programmed for 30 days that I would stop on a certain date, and when the day came I simply stopped from one day to the next, and never smoked again – in fact I could not.

Although this books is from 1978, it is just as inspiring and useful now as back then. You are taught how to tackle all varieties of problems in yourself and others.

I firmly recommend that everyone read this basic book on the Silva method, and perhaps also some of the others. Even better, you could participate in one of the Silva courses available throughout the world, as I understand. ( )