Visualization meditation is one of the most powerful “non-activities” that you can do to manifest your desires. If you doubt that it works, think about a pencil. That pencil had to exist in the inventor’s mind before it was created as a physical object!

You can apply visualization to any desire you have. Visualization meditation is a practice of daily contemplation of your desire, meant to reinforce the image in the subconscious and aid in manifesting it.

Visualization meditation exercise:

Do this exercise before bed. You want your mind to have an uninterrupted night of creation just after you’ve given it your command. Whether you’re a beginning meditator or experienced, 10 minutes of focused attention is better than an hour of wandering thoughts. Time isn’t important – focus is essential.

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   Use the Silva Method countdown method to enter the alpha level. You want to be relaxed and focused, not worrying about the millions of things you have to accomplish today (it feels like that sometimes, doesn’t it?). Use the Silva Method to quickly guide your brain into alpha. Slowly count down from 5 to 1, going deeper into tranquility until you reach a deeply relaxed state of body, brain and mind.

2. Focus your thoughts by bringing your full attention to your breath. Feel the physical sensations of the breath, shutting out all mental chatter.
3. Visualize what you desire. Make your visualization as realistic as possible – merely seeing an image is not enough, you have to feel it using many senses, just as you feel your everyday waking life!
4. Most importantly, feel happiness and gratitude when you visualize. It’s essential to be grateful for WHAT IS – that includes everything that exists on the physical plane as well as everything that exists in your imagination.
5. Stay focused for as long as you can. Any time your mind wanders off, gently redirect your focus to what you want.
6. Be open to any inspiration or guidance you may receive. Flashes of insight may be very frequent during this meditation or in the following days!

Visualization and Intuition

You can also develop your visualization skills by incorporating intuition. You can visualize your desired outcome, and ask your higher self for guidance and inspiration.

This exercise is best done at bedtime, because just like with the visualization meditation, your mind will get busy working on your intentions:

First, you will need to enter the alpha brainwave state of controlled relaxation. Use the Silva Method and count backwards from 5 to 1, entering a deeper level with each number.

Feel yourself walking in a place that is familiar and comfortable to you, a place where you feel happy and safe. You are filled with feelings of love, peace and happiness.

Then, imagine a guide standing before you. This is your higher self. Follow your guide to a room and enter. Take in your surroundings. How is the room decorated? Is it neat, or a shambles? Is it warm and welcoming or sterile? Are there any objects in the room or is it bare? If there are objects, are they meaningful to you? Whatever you imagine is absolutely right for you.

Sit down with your guide and describe your dream to the guide as though you were describing your dream to your very best friend who isn’t going to judge you or put down your dreams. Get into every detail – what you want, what you’re doing, how you feel, who else is in the dream… everything. Then, ask your higher self what you need to know. Then listen…

…or watch, or feel – HOW your guide gives you information may differ based on the situation. You may get visuals, words, physical sensations… it’s all good, and it’s all important.

You really have to allow, and listen to what is said. It may be completely contrary to what your logical mind thinks is the way to achieve your dreams – which is why it’s essential to be in the alpha level for this! Ask your guide questions if something is not clear but remember to be open to ALL information that comes to you.

When you are finished, thank your guide and leave the room. Close the door behind you and start counting from 1 to 5, each time going into a higher level of awareness. When you are fully alert, write down the guidance you received – before your logical mind starts rationalizing why it can’t be done that way, why that won’t work, etc. You’ll need to take action on your guidance!

Then visualize your goal again, this time incorporating the information your guide has given you.

Use this exercise anytime you want to get clarity on your dreams or if you just need to bolster belief in your dreams. Nothing is impossible in the nonphysical, and if you’re not used to accessing the information presented there, it might seem weird or unworkable at first. So feel free to visit with your guide anytime you need to!

What if you can’t see pictures? The mind thinks in terms of the physical senses. For most people, visual images dominate but don’t worry if you are unable to see mental images. What’s more important are the feelings and overall experience of your visualization. If you were asked to imagine a red apple right now, you may not have a clear picture come up but your mind knows exactly what a red apple looks, feels, tastes, smells and sounds like (when you bite into it). Life is a mutli-sensory experience so allow your visualizations to be multi-sensory too. Don’t restrict them to being merely visual.

Have fun when you visualize, and use the Silva Intuition System to enhance your visualization and intuitive skills. Whatever you visualize, you can achieve!

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.

Before you meet with a person, you can earn the right to ask them subjective questions by working a health case on them. That’s a moral feeling on my part.
First you help them, and that will tune you in to them.

In the Silva Method, you get all kinds of points of reference by projecting into metals, plants, animals.

• Have you been getting points of reference in your sales field?

• Are you getting points of reference on desire?

• Are you getting points of reference on why people want to buy?

• Are you getting points of reference on when it’s time to close?

How would you do that? How would you get points of reference on when someone is ready to close?

You could go to level, go back over sales that you have made, and follow that person and see when it was that they were ready to say “Yes.” That is a point of reference for you.

Feel it. Feel what it felt like to sit there. Listen to what they were saying, and what the meaning was behind the words. Replay it, and make that point of reference yours.

Then recall another sale when somebody bought from you, and make that a point of reference.

Everyone wants to know, “How do I handle objections?”

Your job is to find out what they want, and to find out how your product can help them attain it.

So when somebody comes up with an objection, what is the first thing you would do, as a Silva grad?

Go to level, take a deep breath, and mentally ask them, “What’s your real objection?”

Using the Silva techniques while you are on your feet is very simple.

If you were sitting in front of someone and they started having a chest pain, what is the first you would do, as a Silva grad?

You’d go to level.

So, there’s no difference at all. In fact it is easier.

Which is easier, to talk to someone ahead of time, when all you have is their name, and mentally ask them what they want in life; or changing the very structure of a heart valve when you work a health case?

Use the tools that you have.

If I am going to go talk to a group of people that I don’t know, I try to get points of reference. Where is the building where you will be making the presentation? Look it up on the map. Go visit the building. Get some points of reference. Who are these people? What are their names? At least get the name of the company.

If you know where the building is, then you can go see what kind of people go in there every day.

The night before a big talk, you can program yourself to wake up automatically at the exact time when most of those people are going to be the most receptive. Then program them. And program yourself.

Then when you walk into the room, make your talk a needs-based talk. In fact, it would be great to make your life a needs-based life, so that you can leave this a better world, as Jose Silva says.

If you really care about the people that you do business with, it shows.

Dealing with fear

Gain confidence by recalling the benefits that people receive

Some people are afraid to go see the big clients, or to go see a lot of clients.

It is okay to admit that you are afraid. That’s why we have the blue framed mirror.

The first question, at level, is: What is it that I am afraid of?

Let’s say that you do not like making cold calls on the telephone. If you don’t know why, then enter your level, mentally picture yourself calling someone; see what happens, what the response is, and what you might be afraid of.

Perhaps you don’t want to bother people, because you know that they are busy. You want to be liked, and therefore you don’t want to bother them because they are busy.

If this is the case, then go to level and check, What are the reasons that someone would want to talk to you, and What are the reasons that they would like you. Instead of worrying about yourself, concentrate on why they would want to talk with you. Instead of focusing on yourself, focus on your client.

Maybe you are afraid that they will say No because of lack of money.

Enter your level and ask yourself, How many of the people that you are going to talk to can really buy your product? Ask yourself why they would buy your product. Come up with several good reasons.

Perhaps you are afraid of being rejected.

Go to your level and think about whether they are rejecting you, or rejecting the product. Don’t make yourself the issue. You are not the issue. As long as you are concentrating on them and their needs and what you can help them get out of their lives, you are not the issue. If they say “No” to getting more out of their lives and what they want in their life, then you might want to look and see whether you want to put that option in front of them so they can see it.

When you enter your level yourself, and you ask questions like these, then you will come up with the answers that are right for you. This is one of the greatest things that Jose Silva discovered in his research:

Nobody else can do it for you as well as you can do it for yourself. No hypnotist. No sales manager. No psychologist. Nobody can help you, as effectively or as quickly as you can help yourself.

So enter your level on your own, ask the questions yourself, and you will get the information that you need to solve your problems.
Finding the right job

Combine your insight with your tutor’s help and you’ll succeed

In order to find the position that is right for you, you might choose to use the creative and intuitive insights that are available to you at the alpha level and discover what it is that you need around the job.

It is also important to call on higher intelligence, which you can do with the Connecting to Source Energy exercise, and obtain guidance and insight about what is best for you to do

First, use your intuition and the creative insight you obtain at the alpha level to figure out what you think is best for you.

What are your needs? Not just money, but what are you looking for in a job?

• Do you want to prove something to yourself?

• Do you want to acquire some knowledge?

• Do you want to look at yourself in a different way?

Find out what your deep emotional needs are that you desire. Find out what you want out of a job, and what would feed you.

After you identify that, and make your “beta” MentalVideo, then, at your level when you are ready to go to sleep, make a second MentalVideo so that your tutor can guide you to a job that is perfect for you.

Work yourself as a case and find out what you needs are. Identify them, then include that information in your MentalVideo to help your tutor help you.

Determining the best prospect to call

Use points of reference to help you achieve your next success!

It is in the nature of human beings to be apprehensive about change. It is part of our survival programming – we never know whether the unknown will be beneficial, or a threat to our survival. Whenever somebody suggests something new, this automatically triggers the survival mechanism. Some people use this energy to explore and discover ways to improve conditions on the planet, while others take a defensive posture.

This was true in Jesus’ day, when the religious establishment opposed the brash young man who dared to suggest that there was new knowledge that could be beneficial to humanity.

About 450 years ago, shortly after Columbus sailed to America and proved that the earth is round, a scientist named Galileo proclaimed that he had confirmed what Copernicus had figured out – that the earth and the other planets rotate around the sun. This would explain why planets sometimes appear to go backwards in the sky.

In the mid-20th Century a scientist named Jose Silva ran into an opposition from leaders in the church… Silva always insisted that he was not trying to hurt religion or replace it. He simply wanted to add some knew discoveries to what was already known.

However, the religious leaders of the time believed that the earth was at the center of the universe. It had to be so, they reasoned, since man was a divine creation. This had become part of their doctrine, their dogma. Galileo’s assertion upset church leaders so much that they tortured him to force him to recant. But this did not change the reality that the earth in fact does revolve around the sun.

In the mid-20th Century a scientist named Jose Silva ran into similar opposition from leaders in the church, as well as scientists, and even leaders in the business community. Many of us who wanted to explore this new science with him also ran into opposition.

Jose didn’t claim to know it all. He described his research findings as “semi-conclusions” because more will surely be added later. Perhaps he has discovered half of the truth. New research will find even more of it. Here is how he explained it at a Silva International Convention.

“We learned how to activate our brain within the subconscious by guiding the mind to look for a different brain frequency and to learn to use it,” he said. “That’s what psychorientology means – orienting the psyche, your mind, to look for and find that specific dimension, and then to use it.”

“Science is open-ended all the time,” Jose continued. “It is like a telescope – if you get a better telescope, you discover more planets, more solar systems, more galaxies. If you discover a better microscope, you go further within matter.”

Surely someone will get a better “telescope” some day and learn even more in this field. It will not negate what Jose Silva found. When scientists figured out that there was some kind of body that was influencing the orbits of the outermost planets, they predicted that there was one more planet on the outskirts of our solar system. They did not have a powerful enough telescope at the time, but when they got one, they could actually see the planet Pluto.

The discovery of Pluto did not change what scientists had already discovered. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the other planets were still there. Scientists had simply gone farther. Jose Silva always insisted that he was not trying to hurt religion or replace it. He simply wanted to add some knew discoveries to what was already known.

The experiences of millions of people during the last decades, since Jose Silva began his research, certainly indicate that his discoveries have tremendous value.

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.

It is often said that everything on earth is connected through a higher power – That at some level everything in ONE! Try telling that to a group of skeptics; Jose Silva did. Back in 1966 when Jose Silva was teaching his first public course, most people didn’t believe in ESP.

This was true of Cleve Backster, a polygraph expert in New York who used to teach agents from the FBI and CIA how to use the “lie detector.” He wouldn’t budged if you told him that it was possible for human beings to communicate with plants. Until it happened to him…

One late night in his New York City office, he made a startling discovery that persuaded millions of people that at some level, there is a connection among all living things. What you’re about to discover below is his personal encounter.

Cleve Backster description of landmark experiment to us in a presentation he made at the 1995 Silva International Convention in Laredo:

“For whatever reason, it occurred to me that it would be interesting to see how long it took the water to get from the root area of this plant, all the way up this long trunk and out and down to the leaves” he said.

“After doing a saturation watering of the plant, I thought, ‘Well gee whiz, I’ve got a lot of polygraph equipment around; let me hook the galvanic skin response section of the polygraph onto the leaf.’

“Now this is a whetstone bridge circuit that is designed to measure resistance changes, and I felt that as the contaminated water came up the trunk and down into the leaf that the leaf, becoming more saturated and a better conductor, it would give me the rising time of the water….I would be able to get that on the polygraph chart tracing.”

“Now the thing trended downward rather than upward, which amazed me a little bit because it should have been going slowly upward on the tracings, if it was going to show a drop in resistance” he continued, using slides of the polygraph chart to help illustrate what he was saying.

“I moved it up here – this was my move – and then it came down again, and this is the thing that amazed me right here because this contour right away…I’m looking and thinking, ‘That’s got the contour of a human being tested, reacting when you are asking a question that could get them in trouble.’

“So I forgot about the rising water time and said, Wow, this thing wants to show me people-like reactions. What can I do that will be a threat to the well being of the plant, similar to the fact that a relevant question regarding a crime could be a threat to a person taking a polygraph test if they’re lying. About fifteen minutes along – thirteen minutes and fifty-five seconds along in this initial observation – I had tried different things to try to get a reaction from this plant. I had even dipped a neighboring leaf into a cup of rather warm coffee – and the plant didn’t show me any reaction. It showed me, if anything, boredom, and just continued to go downwards. If this thing were an individual, it would have indicated that they were getting bored and sleepy.”

“But over here,” he said pointing to a sudden jump in the graph, “the idea occurred to me – and only the idea – ‘I know what I am going to do: I am going to burn that plant leaf, that very leaf that’s attached to the polygraph.’

“Now I didn’t have matches in the room. I wasn’t touching the plant in any way. I was maybe five feet away from the desk. I was essentially away from the plant.”

“The only new thing that occurred was my intent to burn that plant leaf.”

“Right here, split second-wise, was when I thought of burning that plant leaf and the image entered my mind. I wasn’t using words at all.”

“And up that the thing went into a wild agitation.”

“Now this was very late at night and towards morning. The building was empty and there was just no other reason for this reaction. This had been going along at a fairly stable level all the way up to this point.”

“So this amazed me.”

“This, I would say, would be a very high quality observation, and my consciousness hasn’t been the same since. And this happened in 1966.”

“I thought, ‘Wow! This thing read my mind!’ It was that obvious to me right then.”

“So then I went to get some matches from the next room. The secretary was a smoker, and I got some matches out of her desk and brought them in.”

“The next will show where I came back in the room, right about here. I lit the match. I was even into burning a neighboring leaf rather than the leaf I had hooked up. Somehow that was already a special leaf.”

“Even before I had a chance to do this I thought, ‘Well, this massive degree of reaction that I’m getting here, I wouldn’t be able to see any additional reaction if it did occur.’

“So I thought, ‘Well, let me reverse the process and remove the threat from the room.’

“I took the matches back out of the room here, came back in at this point, and the thing just evened right out again, which really rounded it out and gave me a very, very high quality observation.”

“Now when my partner in the polygraph school we were running at the time came in, he was able to do the same thing also, as long as he intended to burn the plant leaf. If he pretended to burn the plant leaf, it wouldn’t react.”

“It could tell the difference between pretending you are going to, compared to when you actually intend to do it, which is quite interesting in itself from a plant psychology standpoint.”

Cleve Backster has since been featured in the book The Secret Life of Plants in 197?. Largely as a result of this publicity, many people began talking to their houseplants to get them to grow better.

One of the most popular exercises in the Silva Method Children’s Course is the “Bean Experiment”.  In this experiment, the instructor has two ziplock bags of bean wrapped in a moist cloth. Both bags of beans were cared for in the exact same manner. The only difference was that one of the bags of beans was given positive energy by the kids. As the children did this, the were asked to visualize the chosen bag to grow big and strong. They did this everyday for 3 days and to their amazement the beans they sent energy to grew significantly more than other bag.

We invite you to try this little experiment or simply send positive energy to your own plants. See if you notice any fascinating changes.  We personally believe that everything is one and connected. And we’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Share your stories below in our comment section or at our Silva Method fan page

Thousands of people have wondered how their dreams can be used to help them find answers. But most of us wake up having no idea what we dreamt the night before. Have you ever considered asking your dreams to give you the answers to the obstacles you might be facing? Lots of people like you and me have experienced a breakthrough, an idea, or an inspiration through dreams. And when they wrote it down, they reach a higher level of consciousness. Just like these examples illustrate

Paul McCartney said:

“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, ‘That’s great, I wonder what that is?’ There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window.

I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th — and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot, but because I’d dreamed it, I couldn’t believe I’d written it. I thought, ‘No, I’ve never written anything like this before.’ But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing!”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley said:

“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think… I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous Creator of the world. I opened mine in terror. The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. …I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phantom; still it haunted me. I must try to think of something else.I recurred to my ghost story — my tiresome, unlucky ghost story! O! if I could only contrive one which would frighten my reader as I myself had been frightened that night! Swift as light and as cheering was the idea that broke upon me. ‘I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectrum which had haunted me my midnight pillow.’ On the morrow I announced that I had thought of a story. I began that day with the words, ‘It was on a dreary night of November’, making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream.”

Imagine, instead of going out and spending money on a dream dictionary, simply ask that burning question to yourself, and let your dreams show you the answer. And when you wake up, make sure you write it down on your own personalized dream book. You’ll find the symbols in your dreams to be in its own unique context. So why not keep a log of them?

How cool would it be to have a dream book which you can share with your friends and family?

Read his great article by Prof. Clancy D. McKenzie, M.D about his experiences on finding answers through dreams to get an idea of where to start . After,  prepare that question you need to ask and program your dreams to find the answers. Then try out this experiment by creating your own dream book and tell us about your success on the comment section below or on our community page.

Programing your dreams

Programmed dreams offer a breakthrough in medical and psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. I first learned the technique from the Silva training in September, 1969, and I have been using it ever since.

You may have heard about problems being solved or discoveries being made during sleep or during the dream-state. These mostly are sporadic events, in which people just happen to awaken with a bright idea.

The programmed dream is different. It gives us the ability to awaken with that bright idea or solution to a problem, any night, at will.

You do not have to be a yogi and meditate for 50 years in a cave to achieve enlightenment. When you fall asleep you reach just as deep a level of consciousness – but you are unaware of this state and how to use it.

Utilizing the techniques, you will be able to spend one minute prior to going to bed to formulate a question, and one minute when you awaken to retrieve the answer.

There are two techniques I use, and more are taught in the Silva training program. The first technique is to decide to have a dream about a problem, and decide that the interpretation of the dream will reveal the answer. You further must decide to awaken at the very end of the dream, remember it and write it down.

The second technique is to decide the mind will work on a particular problem throughout sleep, and that when you awaken, your first thought will be the answer.

I will focus mainly on examples – so you will begin to grasp the magnitude of what programmed dreams enable us to do. Programmed dreams are very valuable and are well worth the effort to learn. One of my hospitalized patients, for example, suddenly developed excruciating chest and abdominal pain. The internal medicine specialist thought it might be either a heart attack or a kidney infection – and he suggested transferring her to a medical facility. After persuading him to wait until morning, I told the lady – who was a good dreamer – that she had better have a dream that would tell her exactly what it was, where it was, how she got it, why she got it, and exactly what to do.

She also programmed that I would be able to interpret the dream for her. You can program that you will be able to interpret your own dream – and then you only will have dreams that you will be able to interpret. In this case, she programmed that I would be able to interpret her dream, and oddly enough, I immediately knew the interpretation – even though it was highly complex. It is possible that I understood because that is what she programmed.

In her dream, she and her husband were driving along a winding road where they should not have gone. Then in the dream it began to snow, the snow got deeper and deeper, the car veered off the road and it was covered over with snow. Just beyond where the car went off the road, the road came to a dead end and went into another road at right angles, and then into another road at right angles, and then into another road at right angles leading to the final destination. To me this was an anatomical road map of the intestinal tract, with an obstruction at the ileocecal junction. But I didn’t tell her this. Instead I asked if she would please draw the road map for me. She did, and it even was in correct proportion! The winding road corresponded to the small intestine, the dead-end the cecum. At a right angle to the small intestine was the ascending colon, leading at a right angle to the transverse colon, and then at another right angle the descending colon.

As soon as the car was covered over with snow, her husband said I have to cut off the engine.” The first thing one does for an intestinal obstruction is shut off the fuel supply, the food intake. Then five or ten people came from the city to dig them out. Five or ten in dreams represents the fingers on two hands, and I did not know if this meant laying on of hands or surgery. When they were dug out, she and her husband were OK but the three teenage children were gone. They were the reason for the obstruction. She wanted more of her husband’s attention for herself.

Intestinal obstruction is an acute surgical emergency, so I immediately transferred her to a surgical hospital. Before she left I warned her you better have a dream that will get you over this problem – otherwise they will be cutting you open.”

At the surgical hospital the diagnosis was confirmed, based on x-ray findings of fluid levels in the gut, and blood electrolyte studies. Surgery was scheduled, and she took a nap to program another dream.

In this dream she saw a tall dark man, wearing a turban – like from the Punjab section of Northeastern India – and he was massaging her abdomen. When she awakened, the obstruction was gone! To the non-dream programmer, these two dreams must sound like something out of Alice in Wonderland. But I am only reporting data, and I draw no conclusions about the data.

I further learned that 20 years earlier a surgeon had performed an operation on this lady for intestinal obstruction. I called the surgeon and asked where in the intestinal tract was the obstruction. He answered “the distal portion of the ileum.” The ileocecal junction is the distal most part of the ileum.

Sources: 1. Miles,Barry. “Paul McCartney –Many Years From Now”. NY, Henry Holt, 1997. Print

2. Shelley, Mary. “Frankenstein”. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones,1818. Print

Dean Radin, a famed researcher and author in the field of parapsychology was invited by Google to talk about the taboo of intuition, and to debunk some of the preconceived notions that many people have about intuition.

This is a huge step in the right direction for us to be able to recover our intuitive senses. If Google is inviting people like Dean Radin to speak openly to a crowd of some of the most intelligent people in the country, just imagine what’s in store for us in the coming years.

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If you’re strapped for time, we’ve transcribed all of the BIG ideas found in the video in a PDF document here >>>

What intuitive experiences have you had in your life? Leave your comments below.

Born without fibulae in both legs, doctors told Aimee she would never walk and would have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Doctors amputated both her legs below the knee on her first birthday. By age two, she had learned to walk on prosthetic legs, and participate in regular childhood activities like swimming, biking, softball, soccer, and skiing.

After that she moved on the film, modeling and motivational speaking.

Check out her speech for TEDTalks below:

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My favorite moment is when she talks about how prosthetics no longer symbolize something that a person is missing, but an opporunity for that individual to define and create themselves.

What about you? Did this talk change how you view the ‘disabled’? What do you think of Aimee?