Silva Mind Control Method Of Mental Dynamics

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Summary: Understanding the Silva Mind Control Method
Review: Anyone who calls Silva Mind Control a cult or implies that the use of these methods is placing oneself above God doesn't understand what they read. Silva Mind Control is a method of Dynamic Meditation and Creative Visualization. It is what Norman Vincent Peale was referring to when he wrote The Power of Positive Thinking. It is what every Olympic and professional athlete, every successful individual does. It is the first step on the road to greatness. There have been countless books written about creative visualization. None of them are as concise in teaching you how to do it as Silva Mind Control. Scientists acknowledge that we only use approximately 5% of our mind. The other 95% lies domant. Silva Mind Control teaches you to use the dormant part of your mind. It teaches you to create your future, rather than be a passive observer. It teaches you to take responsiblity for how your thoughts create your life instead of mistakenly thinking that life happens to you. Positive thoughts attract positive events. Negative thoughts attract negative events. The name Silva Mond Control tells you what it does. It teaches you to control YOUR mind and YOUR life. Silva Mind Control is also a form of behavior modification, replacing negative thoughts and feelings with positive thoughts and feelings. Healthy people never worry about being sick. Rich people never worry about being poor. Sick and poor people always do. You give power to whatever your mind focuses on. If you always worry about being sick, you will make yourself ill. If you know you are healthy, you will be. Every successful person is a visonary, with the abilty to see the future as they want it to be and the faith to make it happen. One of my ex High School students is an academy award winning actress. There was never any doubt in my mind that she would be, because there was never any doubt in hers. Warning: Silva Mind Control is only for individuals who have the desire to change their lives, the courage to make their dreams come true and the commitment to to make it happen.

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Summary: Mind control to do what?
Review: I strongly dislike this book because I don't like books that try to instill that men have more power than God does. I believe that human beings have greater potentials when they are enlighten by God. The people that I admire the most, like Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Jesus Christ, have been the most noble and humble people on earth. Why must we desire so much power and control if the greatest people have had so much desire to help, for instance, the forgotten, the neglected, the poor, the condemned? They found their treasure in giving themselves to others, not in the powers of their minds and material wealth. Umm, let's see. Didn't the angel of darkness wanted to have more power and control than God?

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Summary: silva mind control dynamics
Review: I was horrified to see the negative reviews of this book. I took the Silva Mind Control course, and, I must say, I believe that it's the best thing I've ever done for myself. Now free of unhealthy stress and negative limiting belief systems, I am freed up to contribute to my loved ones rather than drag them down. Have you ever had a flash of intuition, a dream which came to pass in reality; perhaps you thought of a person and then two seconds later, you receive a call from them? These little synchronicities, or coincidences, as you might call them, are very common. We all have this ability. The Silva Method is simply a way to learn to trust your intuition so that you can use it to solve problems. What kind of problems? Any kind-because you will use your mind to solve any problem you have, and the Silva Method is mind development. How is it developed? straightforward relaxation, visualization, imagination, and autosuggestion(affirmations). Sorry, no demons and devils are invoked! This is strictly positive stuff! There are a few Silva Method clubs where people meet to meditate together and share ideas, but that's as close as it comes to becoming a cult. I have never been coerced by Silva people-everything is voluntary, and no pressure is applied. Mind Control refers to your ability to control your own brain wave frequencies, and then to use exercises in visualisation and imagination to solve problems. Jose Silva discovered, through empirical analysis, that the alpha brain wave frequency range was the most beneficial one to access, because it is conducive to better relaxation, concentration, recall, genius mentality, and, believe it or not, detecting information at a distance with only the use of your mind. Yes, that's right, you can do it, and quite easily. I realize that statement sounds more like science fiction than science, but science backs up this amazing idea. Even before Jose Silva came along, scientists who studied psychic ability never disputed its reality. Psychic ability is real, and it can be taught-like playing the violin or baseball, the more you practice the better you will get. You may develop 80% accuracy in psychic detection if you practice frequently-few have gotten any better. We know it's o.k. to be imperfect, however. That 80% goes a long way towards solving problems and making the world a better place. Silva practicioners are normal people with positive attitudes. I am eternally grateful to God for granting a troubled young man a method by which he transformed his life from a mess into a beautiful success.

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Summary: A response to those who think this is a 'cult'
Review: Psychosymatic - "psycho refers to mind and somatic refers to body; the term psychosomatic means the mind making the body ill or illnesses which have been created physically within the body by derangement of the mind." I got this of a google define:__ search. This is a similar definition from my psych book. Any rational educated person knows what this means and is incapable of refuting. So why would you believe that the Silva Method is impossible, yet a cult? Isn't a religion a form of a cult? Go ahead and look up the word cult and religion. They are synonymous. The word cult just has bad connotations. This method isn't trying to make you a God, it's trying to help remove a cloud of ignorance and help you 'see' what is there. If you want to take it to a religious note, to help you have faith in yourself like He does. (Please do not take offense to my use of the word ignorance. I simply mean it as it's definition of having a lack of knowledge in an area in question, like "I'm ignorant of the theories of astrophysics.")

I read The Silva Mind Control Method (the blue book). And initially I was scared that it would start putting God, and Christ into things. Which it didn't, nor did it say anything about how I should believe in A God and so on. It basically stated what we know through science and experimentation and how we can use it to better ourselves. That we are capable of making ourselves sick just by thinking about it. Ex: "Oh my, if i see/hear/smell etc, that's gonna make me sick" We've all said it at some point and we all know it's happened. (Happiness and pleasure are the same, sex alone is ~90% in the brain.) He simply took what is known about our brains and took it to a different level. I appreciated the objectivity of the Method. He respects that everyone has a belief system of their own (or lack of) but that one thing is true in all of us. We all have a brain that is capable of doing amazing things to us, whether it's emotional, psychological, or physical. So why not use it to help us be healthier and happier with ourselves? If not for our own sake then at least for those people around us who care and love us. Either way you can't loose. (But if you think you lost some money, just think of how many times you bought bad food. At least you gained some knowledge/experience)

In response to the reviewer, Olga Loaiza, who said she respected people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi and Jesus Christ because they helped people and had the strong desire to do so. That the Silva Method is trying to make us, very much unlike them, a bunch of self serving and superficial demigods. I don't know what part of the book has that since most of what I read dealt with using our (once mastered) capabilities not just for ourselves but to help others (like 70% of the method was on that alone). My question to you is this: What if Luther, Gandhi, and Christ made a different choice because they didn't understand something, or didn't 'see' it? Nor trusted their Minds to decipher the signs they saw and knowledge they gained to make the correct, reasonable, or rational decision? What good would they have been to those they seeked to help with only desire if they didn't DO something about it? Again trusting their minds to help them help others. Could your doctor, police officer, priest, teacher, mother or father help you without the discipline over themselves and their skill(s)? How great in their own way and helpful would they have been without self discipline (/mind control)?

Need a "religious" story? Here's one a friend emailed me many years ago that I'll never forget. Noah told everyone to prepare themselves because God is going to flood the world (to start over). Nobody believed him. One of the villagers told him, "I don't know what god you're talking about but My God wouldn't do that to me. He'll make sure I'm okay." As it rained and the water rose, those on boat rowed to him and said, "quick get in! the water is rising we're heading for higher grounds." He said "no, no, God will take care of me." Many passed offering the same assistance and he still refused. He drowns and in Heaven he sees God and asks him, "why didn't you save me?" God replies, "I tried but you wouldn't get in any of the boats."

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Summary: It's a Cult
Review: Silva Mind Control is described as a destructive mind control cult by the respected researcher Dr. Singer in her book, "Cults in Our Midst". She lists many of the common negative side effects of destructive mind control cults in her book including depression and psychosis.

Other books that may be of help in recovering from a destructive mind control relationship include "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan, "The Stormy Search for the Self" by Christina Grof and Stan Grof, M.D., "Spiritual Emergency" edited by Stan Grof, M.D. and Christina Grof, and "A Path with Heart - A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life" by Jack Kornfield.

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Summary: Using what God gave us in the first place
Review: Some people are misguided in their attempt to delude themsevles into thinking that by using more of their God given mental powers they would become like God and therefore try to persuade the rest of us into thinking the same way.
According to the Bible God created every thing, including man and woman. The Bible states that God "saw that everthing was good". So God gave to us the power we possess in our minds. Unfortunatley most of us, including me I might add, are only using a fraction of what we capable of doing.
Jose Silva found a way to teach other to use more of our God given talents that lie dormant in our minds. Is God not so powerful that it would have been easy to prevent this from happening? Of course, after all God created everything, so for him stop one person named Jose Silva from discovering this method would have been easy.
Use the method, develop your mental powers and then may your good character deceide to use your new found talent to use for the greater good. After all it's almost like a knife. I can use it to kill you or I can use it to cut an apple in two and share it you. It's my choice.
May you choose wisley.

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Summary: Silva Method is for real, it works, and is not evil
Review: Those brainless people who diss the Silva Method as a cult are either ignorant or plain stupid. I have long been monitoring the Silva Method for 15-16 years since high school and have come to the conclusion that they're not a cult. They're not even a monolithic organization worshipping one person.

If Silva Method was a cult, why do priests and nuns of the Catholic Church (including several prominent Jesuit priests in my country) practice and even TEACH it? There's Father Justin Belitz, OFM, a high-ranking Franciscan friar in the USA, and Sister Naomi Curtin of Minnesota, both instructors of the Silva Method.

And those who say that the Method pulls people away from God, should see what happened to Jose Silva before he died in 1999. At the time, he became more religious in his orientation and was into exploring directly connecting with Divine Intelligence or God and not just using the Silva Method abilities to change one's life, but more of changing OTHER PEOPLE'S lives. Now, is that evil/sinful/cultish? I mean, come on, you don't ask God to brush your teeth, pay your bills, drive your car, wipe your butt when you take a dump in the john, or watch over your kids, work out at the gym for you, balance your checkbook for you, etc., etc., right? God helps those who help THEMSELVES.