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

“Money Is The Root Of All Evil”

I am sure you have heard this state­ment before, or maybe even said it your­self. But did you know that this is a lim­it­ing belief?

Today I want to talk to you about money and mind­set (it is always one of our very favorite top­ics ). I’ve talked about this plenty of times before and I’m sure by now you know that  your mind­set towards wealth and suc­cess can really make a big difference!

The truth is, if you have more money, you’ll have more power to do good and make a change in the world. You’ll be able to give to char­i­ties, give some child or a refugee hope, con­tribute to research and sci­ence on ill­nesses or med­i­cine and give to char­ity groups. The poor need and deserve the assis­tance of those who have the means.

Let’s take a look closer to home; money means free­dom, which most peo­ple are seek­ing. With money, you’ll have the free­dom to work when and if you want to. This means you’ll have time for your loved ones, friends and fam­ily which is the most impor­tant thing in life. You could even spend that money to help other mem­bers of your fam­ily with their mort­gage or col­lege education.

You’ll be able to travel the world and strengthen or build what­ever new skills you want by learn­ing. You can then put your skills to good use, there­fore cre­at­ing more pos­i­tive change in the world.

Money does make the world go round… For exam­ple, char­i­ties need money to run their orga­ni­za­tions. Musi­cians need money for instru­ments, stu­dio time, and music lessons. Schools need money to teach. All I’m say­ing here is that we shouldn’t be striv­ing to make money for money’s sake but to enable a mean­ing­ful and enjoy­able lifestyle.

Its impor­tant to remem­ber — Money is a means to an end. Not an END in itself.

Money can be a really great tool that when used wisely can add to the value of human life. It’s good to be cau­tious when it comes to sav­ing or spend­ing but remem­ber to keep in mind also your atti­tude towards money. To put it sim­ply, if you don’t think you have enough, then you’ll never have enough and if you think that money is evil, then it will be detri­men­tal only to you!

So now share with me your thoughts. Do you think that not hav­ing a lot of money is key to hap­pi­ness? Or do you agree with me when I say that more money can cre­ate more good in the world? Or do you believe money is the root of all evil?

I look for­ward to read­ing your comments!

Bet­ter and Better,

Laura

Here’s a ques­tion for you today:

Do you remem­ber a spe­cific moment, event or point in your life that caused you to com­pletely change your belief sys­tems — usu­ally for the bet­ter? Do you remem­ber what it was?

I think many of us have gone through a life-changing moment — maybe even a few– and that is why we’re for­tu­nate enough to be stu­dents of Silva.

But a turn­ing point can come in many other ways in life, just like it did with these 2 ex-US army sol­diers who started the Con­ta­gious Love Exper­i­ment project.

What is it? In a nut­shell, it’s a project to spread more love across the planet

In this very inspir­ing arti­cle, 2 for­mer US Army offi­cers talk about how they reached a turn­ing point in their lives due to a series of events and finally real­ized how they were stuck in their men­tal con­fines, sur­rounded by their own hatred and unhappiness.

They now walk and bike across the coun­try, to not only spread love but also to meet peo­ple, talk about their expe­ri­ences in the war, and learn about other orga­ni­za­tions that started with one person’s idea of change.

Get inspired and read the rest of the arti­cle below. Don’t for­get to share with us what your moment of change was

Cheers,
Jill

What one expe­ri­ence com­pletely changed your belief system?

The Con­ta­gious Love Exper­i­ment sounds like a ’70s rock band. It’s not. It’s the title of a cross-country jour­ney made by two Iraq vets—Josh Steiber and Conor Curran—that started this past sum­mer. Inspired by the title of Gandhi’s auto­bi­og­ra­phy (The Story of My Exper­i­ments with Truth), Josh decided to become a con­sci­en­tious objec­tor. His plan: to walk and bike across the coun­try, meet peo­ple, talk to them about his expe­ri­ences in the war, and to learn about other orga­ni­za­tions that started with one person’s idea of change.

Wait. Hold on. Iraq vets? Gandhi? War sto­ries? Bike rides? Con­ta­gious love? Yes, my thoughts exactly. I had to talk to these guys.

Josh Steiber Says No to War and Yes to Change

I first spoke with Josh, the ini­tial insti­ga­tor of the exper­i­ment. He decided to join the army right after 9/11 when he was still in mid­dle school. He felt that if there was a war going on when he was of age, he was going to enlist. And he did: High-school grad­u­a­tion was in June of ’06, basic train­ing began in July, and by February’07, he was deployed to Bagh­dad. On the sur­face, there wasn’t a per­son bet­ter suited for the job. He was young, healthy, and strong. He grew up attend­ing reli­gious schools where he read about “the prophecy of George Bush”. He believed that “we” were right and “they” were wrong. He wanted to help rid the world of the bad guys in much the same way a doc­tor would cut out a tumor.

Once he got there though, his rea­son­ing began to make a lot less sense. “I real­ized things weren’t so black and white. I real­ized that much of my deci­sion to enlist was based on fear and para­noia and hatred. Kick­ing down doors of people’s homes on a daily basis in order to find any­thing sus­pi­cious, see­ing inno­cent peo­ple die—it forced me to ques­tion my own beliefs and to real­ize that I needed to start look­ing at peo­ple with com­pas­sion,” Josh says.

Read more…

Have you ever won­dered how healthy you really are? This is obvi­ously a very impor­tant ques­tion a per­son should always be ask­ing his or her­self because tak­ing stock of your health helps you stay well.

But here at Silva, we’re going much, much deeper than the usual.  Once you take this quiz, you’re going to dis­cover just how healthy you are in the 4 main areas of health that com­plete you.

These areas are:

• phys­i­cal
• spir­i­tual
• emo­tional
• mental/mind

All 4 areas are inter­con­nected for a healthy, happy you.

If one area isn’t doing so well, you won’t be doing so well either. It’s imper­a­tive that all 4 areas are work­ing like a well-oiled machine so that you can live the break­through life you’ve always dreamed of.

So, take the quiz now to dis­cover which areas are your health­i­est and which areas need improving!

It’s fun and easy, and don’t for­get to share your scores with us!

For each even ques­tion, give your­self 1 point if you said Yes/Agree

For each odd ques­tion, deduct 1 point if you said Yes/Agree

Remem­ber that you can have between –8 to 7 points for each category.

Take The Health Quiz Now Read more…

Hi friends,

Health is wealth, as we’re all aware. We only have one healthy body to live with for the rest of our time on this earth, so it goes with­out say­ing that our health should be a pri­or­ity. Think about it, how are we to live the com­plete break­through life with­out the pres­ence of our health?

But health doesn’t only mean a healthy body. It also means a healthy mind, spirit and heart.

The World Health Orga­ni­za­tion once stated, “Health is a state of com­plete phys­i­cal, men­tal and social well-being, and not merely the absence of dis­ease or infirmity.”

And I totally agree. Most of the time, the only thing that’s keep­ing us away from per­fect health is the per­fect excuse. Don’t you think?

The arti­cle below cap­tured this so com­pletely. Have there ever been a time when you thought “Oh, I can’t do this, I don’t have the money,” or “I can’t do that, I just don’t have the time,” and when you see some­one else just pos­i­tively glow­ing with health, you think “Yeah she can do that because she is rich and have ample of time on her hands!”

This may sound a lit­tle bit harsh, but it is all just excuses. You do not need to spend a dime more to choose a salad over fries or for a nice walk in the park over the TV

Read the rest of the arti­cle below your­self and see how a high net worth is not the req­ui­site for a healthy lifestyle.

Can An Apple A Day Increase Your Net Worth?

By BJ. Gallagher

One day, not too long ago, I took a break from my writ­ing to watch a pop­u­lar after­noon talk show. The fea­tured guest was a well-known TV-actress-turned-health-expert who was expound­ing on her elab­o­rate self-care rou­tine: daily med­i­ta­tion, yoga sev­eral times a week, fre­quent Pilates, veg­e­tar­ian meals of organic pro­duce grown in her own gar­den, umpteen vit­a­min and min­eral sup­ple­ments, fre­quent appli­ca­tions of bio-identical hor­mone potions, and fab­u­lous sex with her hand­some hus­band. Of course, she was flog­ging her new book, promis­ing that every woman could look so good at 60.

I turned off the TV in dis­gust. “Of course she can do all that great healthy stuff,” I har­rumphed. “She’s rich. She has all the time in the world to devote to exer­cise, med­i­ta­tion, and home-grown veg­gies in home-cooked meals. She hires per­sonal train­ers to come to her home; she can med­i­tate all day long with­out a care; AND she’s got a great hus­band to man­age her career. If I had her money, I’d look that good, too!”

All the women I know are stressed out and stretched to the max, just try­ing to keep the mort­gage paid and util­i­ties on. Many are rais­ing kids — often alone — won­der­ing how they’re going to make ends meet. They’re wor­ried about keep­ing their jobs, or find­ing new ones if they’ve lost theirs. “How on earth can I find time for exer­cise — or even sleep — when my life is too busy just try­ing to hold it all together?” they lament.

Hi Friends,

I was catch­ing up on read­ing the other day and I found this quote:

“If we don’t get the epi­demic of child­hood obe­sity in check, for the first time in a cen­tury chil­dren will be look­ing for­ward to a shorter life expectancy than their parents.”

I remem­ber when this first came out as head­line news in 2002. There were  count­less arti­cles and news reports on what could have pos­si­bly caused this health epi­demic — fast food, video games, adver­tis­ing, pop culture.

What was really inter­est­ing to me, is that every­body was blam­ing exter­nal fac­tors for the poor health of our kids. It was always some­one else’s fault, from cor­po­ra­tions to the health care sys­tem or even the government.

This blast from the past reminded me how grate­ful I am to know that we are all respon­si­ble for our own health — men­tally, phys­i­cally, emo­tion­ally and spir­i­tu­ally. I strongly believe that we were all born heal­ers and have the capac­ity to learn how be in com­plete con­trol of our health.

Whats refresh­ing to know is that in this day and age, I don’t seem to be alone in this belief.

For exam­ple in the movie Avatar, what moved me is the pow­er­ful mes­sage that we are all con­nected and have the abil­ity to heal our­selves and oth­ers.

This is me as an Avatar — If you want to look this good, I have a link on my face­book page

Did you also get this mes­sage when you watched it?

Even though Avatar is a sci­ence fic­tion movie, it seems as though the con­cept of  heal­ing one­self is now becom­ing more and more accepted.

Although I’m sure not every­one accepts this belief.  When­ever there is a new rad­i­cal idea that chal­lenges cur­rent world view, it will always receive some degree of criticism.

Alter­na­tive heal­ing used to be one of those rad­i­cal ideas. It is now cur­rently between the stages of growth and matu­rity. It’s been stud­ied, val­i­dated and is now mov­ing towards gen­eral acceptance.

Here at Silva we have con­ducted count­less research projects and pub­lished  reports on sci­en­tific evi­dence behind energy heal­ing since the 1960’s. My father, Jose Silva, was one of the first to sci­en­tif­i­cally prove the power of mind and how it can heal the human body.

So what’s next?

Maybe it is because I grew up exposed to my father’s research, I always believed that energy heal­ing will become a nat­ural part of the med­ical community.

What I want to know is what you think.

Have we become a health­ier soci­ety  in 2010 than in 2002?

Do you believe there has been a shift in global con­scious­ness?

Are peo­ple tak­ing more con­trol of their own health? What has changed in your life with your beliefs towards your health?

So is Avatar really sci­ence fic­tion after all?

I look for­ward to dis­cuss your thoughts.

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 every­one!

I’ve been mean­ing to ask you this; how often do you cel­e­brate your success?

I was just think­ing that we’re always so quick to point out our own fail­ures. We dwell on them and then spend all of our energy obsess­ing about our mis­takes. I’m guilty of this too, I just try my best not to show it

Think about the last time some­one gave you a com­pli­ment. Were you quick to brush it off?  Or did you quickly think of some­thing to com­pli­ment them back with?

But really, why do we do this?

Of course it’s impor­tant to take note of our fail­ures — it’s a step­ping stone to keep learn­ing and grow­ing, but it’s also impor­tant to cel­e­brate our accom­plish­ments because by doing this, we’re giv­ing our­selves pos­i­tive moti­va­tion.

Most of the time, we let our suc­cesses pass qui­etly by. Why don’t we linger in the moment, no mat­ter how big or how small they may be?

We already know that when we cel­e­brate our achieve­ments, we tell the uni­verse that we’re happy with our­selves and with the out­come of our efforts. By doing so, we open our­selves to even more suc­cess, so I think it’s about time we start doing more cel­e­brat­ing and less nit-picking

With that in mind, I want to share with you some tips on how you can appre­ci­ate your­self every­day. Hope­fully they will inspire us all take the time and effort to indulge our­selves in our moments of glory.

5 Ways To Cel­e­brate Suc­cess Everyday:

1. Accept and enjoy the compliments
2. Thank every­one who sup­ported you
3. Reflect on your achieve­ment and linger in the moment
4. Write down your suc­cess and put it in your suc­cess jour­nal or some­where you can see it
5. Help and inspire oth­ers to achieve their goals

Now it’s your turn! Tell us what your great­est moments in life are — it doesn’t have to be any­thing huge, just any­thing that’s given you immense per­sonal sat­is­fac­tion and hap­pi­ness.

Also, if you have any per­sonal way to this, like maybe toast­ing to your­self, let us know too! I look for­ward to read­ing them!

Cheers,

Jill

Hey every­one!

It’s been a busy cou­ple of weeks, what with the myr­iad of cel­e­bra­tions and events hap­pen­ing around the world, includ­ing Valentine’s Day, the Chi­nese New Year and the start of the Win­ter Olympics, we sure do have a lot of things to occupy our­selves with!

Of course, the sub­ject of all our atten­tion, energy and focus here at Silva Inter­na­tional is on Laura’s brand new prod­uct, the Silva Intu­ition Sys­tem. I’m sure most of you’ve already seen or heard about this amaz­ing sys­tem and how it’ll help you sharpen and grow your intu­itive skills to give you an edge over almost every­one else in life.

And just because this is also the biggest thing in my mind right now, I just wanted to put up this really fun and awe­some quiz that Fin­er­minds had in their blog recently. Yeah, it’s about intu­ition and it’s really fun and really entertaining…

I did it for the first time last week and I was totally sur­prised with the results…  I mean, you think you know some­thing, but actu­ally you don’t really know all that much. So in case you missed out on this last week, click below to get started… Go ahead and have some fun this Lunar New Year, the Silva way!

How Intu­itive Are You? Take The Quiz And Know Your 6th Sense Score

by Vishen Lakhi­ani

Ever won­der how intu­itive are you? Are you some­one who goes by the book rely­ing solely on logic or do you fol­low your hunches and go with your gut feelings?

Well, this quiz may not be as mag­i­cal as the “Which Harry Pot­ter Char­ac­ter Are You?” quiz but it’s way more ben­e­fi­cial, excit­ing, and will give you a quick glimpse of how you make deci­sions in your every­day life.

There are 4 lev­els of intu­ition. Level 1 is your warn­ing sys­tem, level 2 revolves around your social intu­ition, level 3 is your cre­ative intu­ition, and level 4 is higher pur­pose intu­ition. After you’ve done the quiz, there’s a full expla­na­tion of each of the 4 lev­els. You’ll dis­cover what level of intu­ition you’re cur­rently at — and if you’re below Level 4 — what you can aspire to be when you reach higher lev­els above you.