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.
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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.
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I need some clarification on this article. What kind of deep relaxation training is only temporary and done from the outer level of consciousness? As far as dynamic meditation training, my logic points at qigong or energy psychology like emotional freedom techniques. Of course there are more esoteric methods of dynamic meditation that go beyond the body into different forms of psychoenergetics. There are many ways to tap into the human psyche. I’m just not familiar with the methods that are only temporary.
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