The mind is known for its amazing powers. Those that invest the proper effort into cultivating the power of the human mind will be surprised at how enhanced mind power can prove to be. Often, when the powers of the human mind are effectively boosted, the ability to increase and improve your lot in life may be likely.

Now, the term mind power is not used to describe amazing mental powers along the lines of ESP, mind reading, or telekinesis. No, this is a concept that refers to the ability to maximize your mind’s ability to perform with the highest level of sharpness and clarity of thought.

The subconscious mind is filled with untapped potential. The subconscious contains a collective of your experience. These experiences can be somewhat limiting if they lock down certain abilities you could maximize if you put forth the right effort to do so. Again, this does not refer to any over the top or outrageous abilities. It simply refers to the common traits of an empowered mind.

What can be considered a trait of an empowered mind? There are quite a few of these components and they include:

Increased/Enhanced Memory: Our memories become dulled when we do not work at improving them. The ability to enhance memories and recollections is not all that difficult. It simply entails reducing how much falls from the forefront of our brain to deep within the subconscious.

Greater Concentration: When you have the ability to concentrate and concentrate effectively, you will find it has a ripple effect through the rest of your life. Concentration ensures you do not miss out on little things. You pay closer attention to detail and things do not get past you. The benefits of these attributes are enormous.

A Positive Sense of the Self: How could you succeed in life if you did not possess a positive image of yourself and who you are? Most people realize that a strong and positive self image is a must for success in life. Yet, what exists deep down inside the subconscious may impede their ability to succeed with the task. By getting to the root of what may be undermining your sense of the self, you can help eliminate such issues and become a more fully actualized human being.

Awareness: You could say this is another side to increased and enhanced concentration. Awareness expands your ability to be perceptive. Increased perception has many rewards. Those willing to do what is needed to expand their perception of what is around them will find their interactions with others is more effective.

Of course, this is just a brief overview of the common benefits you can acquire from tapping into the power of the subconscious mind. Those that opt to work on expanding their subconscious and its overall potential will discover incredible improvements in other areas of life as a result.

This will raise questions regarding how one can sharpen the power of the mind and make it work more effectively. The answer to such questions simple entails performing a few simple mental exercises (some of which are not even really exercises) designed to increase mental capabilities…

Read as often as possible. Reading is to the mind as jogging is to the body. It improves overall health and performance in sorts of different ways. Whether you are looking to increase your knowledge base or engaging in critical thinking, reading can help you attain such results.

Do not dismiss the value of brain twisters or mental puzzles. While such things may seem trivial, they are not. Brain twisters and mental puzzles can sharpen the mind and make it stronger. Again, that is why they should never be dismissed.

Calm the chaos and anger that may exist in the mind; Calm the monkey in your mind. Investing in meditation and other such approaches might prove to be the best plan to achieve such a goal. When the mind is calm, it can be more effective. It is as simple as that.

The mind is known for having a great many potential powers that can be tapped into when you put the right effort into cultivating such skills. Even a small amount of effort can yield tremendous improvements in the way a person lives.

At the end of every Silva Life System seminar soon to be Silva graduates learn what is know as case working. This is a Silva technique where student pair up and “work a case” on an unknown person who has a health challenge. The only information the Silva students are given are the persons age and the city they live in. From this little information the students are asked to go into their level and intuitively tell each other what health problems their “unknown person” is facing. This is one of the coolest part of the Silva seminars because it is at this moment that the student begin to trust their intuition and realize their true potential! Here is a video of Laura Silva Quesada giving a class in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hope you enjoy

Realizing you potential when it comes to intuition is a wonderful experience. If you have a story about a time in your life when you realized just how intuitive you were please share it with the us, we would love to hear it.

Have you ever had a day when everything you did was right, every movement was smooth and precise, when you felt that nobody could defeat you?

Some athletes call that “being in the zone.” It is a time when you have great anticipation, when you seem to know in advance what is going to happen so that your reactions are always right. Jose Silva calls it being in a “special state of mind.”

You can condition yourself to be in this special state of mind more often by using your alpha level. Here is Jose Silva to tell us how to do it:

“First, enter your level and recall a time when you were ‘in the groove,’ when you were ‘in the zone,’ when you performed perfectly, when everything you did was right, when you could feel yourself achieving your best, when you knew that you would achieve just what you desired. Recall how you felt at this time. This feeling is the result of a Special State of Mind. Recall exactly how you felt, physically, mentally, and emotionally, when you had this Special State of Mind.

“Any time in the future when you need to have this same state of mind again, all you need to do is to use those words, ‘Special State of Mind,’ as a trigger mechanism to help you get into that state of mind where you will be just as successful again, and more so every time you do this.

“Eventually you will establish enough points of reference for the feeling of being ‘in the groove,’ ‘in the zone,’ so that it will then be automatic. At that time, all you need to do is to recall that state of mind, of being ‘in the groove,’ ‘in the zone,’ and you will be there.

Every time that you perform in a superior manner, every time that you have a very good training session or performance, then enter your level and reinforce that success at level, so that you will continue to get better and better every time you practice.”

Giuseppina Del Vicario

Giuseppina Del Vicario, who competed under the name Vidheya, won the Italian martial arts national champion in Tai Chi Chuan three consecutive years, competing against both men and women. She retired after that, undefeated. She has been a Silva lecturer in Italy since 1995.

He would then guide them to the alpha, or meditative level of mind and ask them to think of further solutions. The children were always able to come up with more ideas while at alpha.

Does your mind function more creatively when you’re at the alpha level of mind?

There is surprising evidence for this, both from first-hand experiences and laboratory evidence. Napoleon Hill, the best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich and The Laws of Success believed that the human mind was capable of tapping into universal fields of intelligence to access ideas and inspiration.

Napoleon Hill writes:

The great artists, writers, musicians and poets became great because they acquire the habit of relying upon the still, small voice that speaks from within, through the faculty of creative imagination. It is a fact well known to people who have keen imaginations that their best ideas come through so-called “hunches”.

Hill talks about how one inventor from Maryland, the late Dr. Elmer R. Gates, used this technique to come up with over 200 patents. Gates would sit in his soundproof laboratory equipped with a pad of writing paper.

He would shut off the lights and ponder on the known factors of the invention on which he was working. He would remain in this position until ideas began to “flash” into his mind in connection with the unknown factors of the invention.

On one occasion, ideas came so fast to Gates that he was forced to write for almost three hours. When the thoughts stopped flowing and he examined his work he found that they contained a minute description of principles that had no parallel among the known data of the scientific world. Moreover the answer to his problem was intelligently presented in those notes.

The greatest inventor of our time, Thomas Alva Edison, used a similar technique. Edison was known for taking frequent naps in the middle of the day. It’s likely that during these naps he was entering the alpha level. He would often come out of these naps with the solution to problems that had been bugging him. Edison was awarded 1368 distinct patents and invented, among other things, the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the film projector, and the first motion picture.

Edison was known to have said, “Ideas come from space. This may seem impossible and hard to believe but it’s true. Ideas come from out of space.”

Where Do Ideas Come From?

Where do creative ideas come from? The brain? The mind?

For best-selling author Richard Bach, a Silva graduate, the idea came from a bird. Bach said this in an interview quoted in the November 1972 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

“I was walking along one night, worrying about the rent, when I heard this voice say, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. But no one was there. I had absolutely no idea what it meant. When I got home, I suddenly had a vision of a seagull flying along, and I began to write. The story certainly didn’t spring from any conscious invention on my part. I just put down what I saw.”

Silva Instructor Wingate Paine told us the rest of the story during an instructor training session in Laredo not long after the book became a bestseller.

Wingate said that Bach had written the first two-thirds of the book from a “dream-like” experience where a big seagull appeared to him and said,

“Take dictation, I have a story for you.“ But the bird faded away before the completion of the story. Wingate said that Bach told him he did not know how to get the bird to come back so that he could finish the book, until he took the Silva course.

Then he knew how to get to that “dream-like“ level and how to invite Jonathan Livingston Seagull to this creative level to tell him the rest of the story.

Bach said in a Harper’s Bazaar article that even before taking the Silva training, he’d come to assume that “there are certain ‘hidden’ capacities and powers which can be taught. I think there is a terrifically pleasant principle behind existence – do what you love to do and you’ll be guided. It’s a lot like flying a plane: You have to trust what you can’t see.”

Jonathan Livingston Seagull was an immediate hit. The book was a bestseller, and the movie based on the book was a huge hit. In fact, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the books that Bach wrote afterwards helped to bring about a spiritual awakening on the planet, by helping people to understand and accept their own spirituality.

The book even went on to make the cover of Time Magazine.

Intuition in the Business World

Does this concept have applications in the world of business?

Professor John Mihalasky, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineeringat the New Jersey Institute of Technology, seems to think so. In experiments he performed with company CEOs he observed that the CEOs who performed best in tests of intuition also tended to be the ones with the best success rates at running their business (measured in terms of 5 year profitability growth).

Prof. Mihalasky’s experiment results are summarized in the table below.

Note that the CEOs with the greatest profitability increases (100% or more) also had the greatest number of correct “guesses” in intuition tests. 81.5% of them performed above chance results. On the opposite end, of the CEOs with the poorest results, none scored above chance in the intuition test. Of CEOs with mediocre numbers the results were consistent with statistical chance results.

What does this mean?

Perhaps Napoleon Hill was correct when he suggested in his book “The Laws of Success” that the most successful people of his time, had learned to tap into their sixth sense.

“A genius”, Hill said “is a man who has discovered how to increase the intensity of thought to a point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of thought”.

This concept of tapping into a universal source of ideas also has applications in the world of science and technology.

A research director at NDM (New Foundations in Medicine) took a Silva course while working on a project to develop artificial arteries. He had come up with 4 different formulas while at beta, but none of them worked. Silva instructor Ken Obermeyer explained what happened next.

The NDM researcher used a technique he learned in class and programmed himself to have a dream that would contain information that he could use to solve the problem he had in mind—the best formula for artificial arteries.

“He awakened sometime during the night,” Obermeyer said, “and wrote out a formula,” then he went back to sleep.

“When he awakened in the morning, he saw the formula, went into the laboratory, put a sample together, and found that the human body would accept his plastic.”

“One interesting note about this creative solution,” Obermeyer continued.

“The chemist said that if he had considered this formula on his beta information, he wouldn’t have believed it to be a formula the body would accept. He would not have come up with this solution through reason and logic.”

Here’s how you can use this technique.

The Basic Technique

Go to your alpha level using the meditation techniques you learned in part 2 of this lesson.

When you have reached your alpha level, think of the problem you wish to solve.

When you quiet your personality during meditation you open the channel for higher wisdom and guidance to come to you through your intuitive mind.

Analyze the problem from all aspects and bring to mind all points of information or data you have on the problem. Frame the specific questions in your mind.

Now let your mind wander. Jot down any interesting ideas or thoughts that come to you. The answer may come to you through words, mental pictures or feelings.

What often feels like “guesses” are intuitive ideas you’re picking up. With practice, the rate and strength of these ideas increases. You’re now starting to really tap into your intuition.

But this is just the beginning. How can you get trained to develop your intuition to such an extent that you can make smart business and life decisions, know the right words to say to others, or be able to tap into reservoirs of endless creative ideas? This is where the Silva Intuition System comes in.

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