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Take your life to the next level with the Silva Method
The mission of the Silva Method is to awaken people to their own inherent human potential.
We guide you with structured life-transforming tools and techniques that result in positive and lasting change for yourself and those around you. Our purpose is to create and leave a better world for those who follow us. We do this by teaching you the Dynamic Meditation skills you need to enhance your intuition and take command of your life.
The techniques help the trained people in gaining massive mental control. They can control their mind and channel their thoughts to bear positive and productive outcomes. The Silva method works like a miracle for thousands of people as they have stated after the successful practice of these techniques, they felt more relaxed, stress-free, optimistic, and have an increased level of concentration in their work. It helped them gain a calm mind and a happy soul. The method of visualization works wonders in hundreds of lives and helps gain better health and improves creativity. Additionally, it also helps to overcome mental and physical challenges in our day-to-day life.
You will, as a result, find yourself navigating life with GRACE AND EASE.
Pat Arnould
My Story
Louisiana is my home and I have taught the Silva Method since 2009.
In presenting the Silva Life and Silva Intuition Systems, I help you develop your own dynamic meditation practice for increase health, goal achievement, creativity and better Intuition through the framework of José Silva’s original Alpha/Theta mind development training plus his additional research in intuition that is part of the classes.
GRATEFUL FOR THE GUIDANCE
In 1979 I was guided to the Silva Mind Control Method (as it was called then) in quite an interesting way. Thinking of it now, I realize it was “divine intervention”.
The name Silva Mind Control fascinated me. My first thoughts were that this was an avenue to help me get control of my mind. I was always intrigued by the things in my life that happened or materialized just because. The “just because” is what guided me to the Silva Mind Control Method Basic Lecture Series (BLS) class. The promise of learning techniques to improve my life and do it “now” as opposed to later was all I needed to convince me to travel to New Orleans for the class.
I took my first Silva Class in April 1979 with Roy and Maree Proctor. The Proctors had a Center in New Orleans and had on-going activities. In August 1979 I took the Graduate Level Class (currently known as Silva Mastery). I went to New Orleans at least once a month, thereafter, to attend classes and other graduate activities.
The BLS class launched me forward into continuing improvements, excitement, and adventures. The simple methodology of using formula techniques to achieve a life of excellence continues to keep me motivated and energized in all I do. Sharing this with others is very important to me.
MANIFESTING A HIGH SCHOOL GOAL
As a senior in high school, I set a goal of becoming a CPA. After the Silva training, I realized that my only limitations were those I imposed on myself. I went to college as a non-traditional student (overcoming the thoughts of being too old), completed an Accounting Degree in 1985, an MBA in 1991 and passed the CPA exam in 1993. In 1998 I started a Ph.D. program in Public Policy. The meditation techniques guided me to earn my degrees as an honor student and were instrumental in my success with the CPA exam.
I enjoy a very exciting life and love to learn. Each time I repeat the classes I learn more. I continue learning with every opportunity that manifests. The more I learn the more I want to learn because it enables me to be of more help and service to others.
OPPORTUNITES TO EDUCATE
I have had many experiences teaching and after being urged by a long time Silva Instructor, I decided to become a Silva Instructor and Success Coach. I realized that this would be the best way to help others achieve “the life” of their own design. I enjoy coaching people and getting them to realize that they are in control of their own destination. I relish feedback from students about their successes and love the energy from their excitement. With each student there is an exponential growth of positive feelings, energy and ideas. And the positive actions that take place help make this planet a better place.
47 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
After first taking the Basic Lecture Series with instructors Marie and Roy Proctor in 1979, I went to their New Orleans center to repeat the class and to take other Silva classes, including the Graduate Level (currently the Silva Mastery). I also traveled to the Silva International Office in Laredo, TX and other locations to take Silva Manifesting, Silva Method Ultra Seminar, and Silva Mind Body Healing Program.
I have practiced the Silva techniques since 1979 and have had many intriguing and exciting success stories. I love sharing my positive way of thinking with others. As a Silva Instructor I am afforded the avenue to help others accomplish a better life; for I am “Better and Better, every day in every way.”
I LOOK FORWARD TO GUIDING YOU
I am honored to have the opportunity to guide you with meditation techniques as a Certified Silva Method instructor. The techniques give you specific ways that you can guide yourself with your own mind control through everyday life. The techniques guide you to understand your intuition and help you to find your calm. A calm state of mind allows for growth, creative problem solving, imagination and healing and helps you to live the life of your own design, to be the person you are meant to be. I am grateful for the opportunity to offer Silva Life System and Silva Intuition System classes in Louisiana.
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Système d'intuition Silva
The only thing standing between you and total intuitive living is the resistance within your mind.
Silva Method Classes – Online
Classes Méthode Silva – en ligne
Both the Silva Life System and Silva Intuition System classes will be offered virtually in the very near future.
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About the Silva Method
Who is Jose Silva
1914 - 1999
Jose Silva is the founder of The Silva Method, and a pioneer in mind empowerment research. Silva dedicated his life to awakening the human mind’s hidden potential. After 24 years of research, he released his findings in 1966 and spent the rest of his life perfecting and teaching The Silva Method. Silva’s legacy is carried on today through Silva International, an organization committed to continuing his mission.
In 1966, a radio repairman from Texas found the answer
Jose Silva began his journey as a humble radio repairman in Laredo, Texas, and later as an electronics instructor with the United States Army Signal Corps.
Despite his career in electronics, Silva had a keen interest in hypnosis and the workings of the human mind. He spent his days working at his job and his nights studying the work of thought leaders like Freud, Jung and Adler.
The turning point that rocketed Silva towards his breakthroughs was a simple question. How do you make the mind more efficient?
Through his professional knowledge, Silva already knew that reducing the resistance in an electrical wire allowed more electricity to flow through it (known as Ohm’s law). Using this theory as an anchor, he then wondere …
What the scientific community has to say about the Silva Method
In the past 5 decades, The Silva Method has touched over 6 million lives in 110 countries, and is used by everyone from celebrities to high-flying CEOs to regular people in search of personal breakthroughs.
Our books have sold over 12 million copies, our seminars continue to sell out across the world, and our findings have been endorsed and practiced by many of the world’s most respected scientists, doctors, thought leaders and spiritual teachers.
A program backed by science and research
We have spent nearly 50 years researching, experimenting and collaborating with leading scientists, researchers and personal growth leaders. The first scientist to investigate the research of The Silva Method was Dr. J. Wilfrid Hahn of the Mind Science Foundation in California, who went on to endorse our work. Since then, various research institutions, universities and scientists have studied and verified our research, including: Duke University, Trinity University, The University of Texas at Austin, Wayland Baptist University, Long Island University, and Canisius College.
Over the years we have continued to fine-tune the process of tapping into the human mind’s inner potential-and often profoundly changing our students’ lives in the process. We do this through an optimized curriculum that includes the Centering Exercise, guided meditations, visualization techniques, intuition-enhancing tools and Theta level exercises, which guide our students into an even deeper level of mind than Alpha.
Are you living life at the "Alpha Level"?
Mind science research has suggested that the key to most of the things we want in life, whether it’s abundance, career success, health, happiness or enlightenment, lies in a particular state of mind caused by specific frequencies of the brain.
Scientists call these frequencies alpha and theta brainwaves frequencies.
We attained these states of mind unconsciously during sleep. The question is… how do you achieve this state of mind during waking consciousness? And more importantly, how do you use it to overcome your limitations and challenges, triumph over your unwanted habits and negative thought patterns, and enrich certain aspects of your life?
The Silva Method in media
Extract from a New York Times Article on Jose Silva
“A recent study by Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex. would appear to indicate that graduates of Mind Control do attain a high degree of Alpha production. C. W. Post College, Greenvale, L. I., is planning to offer the course at its business school this fall and Canisius College will offer it in its Department of Religious Studies. A visit to a Mind Control class in New York discloses more stockbrokers than bearded way outs and the dress style is closer to Brookes Brothers than to the East Village. A major New York company has sent all its top executives through the course and its president, a hard-headed businessman is seriously thinking of instituting an in-house training program for all employees. He refused to speak for the record, saying, We think there is something there, but I don’t want to alarm our stockbrokers at the moment. Other businessmen are not so reluctant. Lee Epstein, a vice- president and art group supervisor at Doyle Dane Bernbach volunteered: It opened the gates for me. It has re-energized me, made me more creative and yet more relaxed. I practice it every day and get better and better at my job and my life.”
"What would happen if you could reduce the resistance in the human brain?"
Would doing this cause it to be more efficient at absorbing information, and perhaps even grant it access to reservoirs of previously hidden creativity and intuition? Driven by this theory, Silva began a thorough process of research and experimentation, starting with his own children. By training them to function at brain frequency levels known as Alpha and Theta-levels of deep relaxation that most people experience while meditating or in light sleep-he was able to significantly improve their grades at school, and even found evidence of enhanced intuitive functioning within them.
| State | Brain Wave Frequency (cycles per second) | Associated with ... |
|---|---|---|
| Beat | 14 - 21 and higher | Waking state, the five senses. Perception of time and space. |
| Alpha | 7 - 14 and higher | Light sleep, meditation, intuition. No time and space limitation. |
| Theta | 4 - 7 and higher | Deeper sleep, meditation. |
| Delta | 0 - 4 and higher | Deep sleep. You are unconscious at Delta. |
In the following years, Silva began sharing his methods with other people in his community. What he found was that by teaching people to consciously guide themselves to the Alpha and Theta level of mind through Centering Techniques, he could show many of them how to, while fully conscious, reprogram their minds like a computer.
Why is this important? Well imagine being able to rewire yourself, without spending thousands of dollars on a professional hypnotherapist. What if you could more easily overcome bad habits like smoking or snacking? What if you could raise your IQ, cultivate a positive wealth mindset, and awaken your mind’s natural healing capacity, all by rewiring your subconscious.
The result that follow were highly encouraging. A multitude of silva practitioners began reporting a variety of benefits, from stress relief to enhanced creativity and intuition to even potentially accelerated physical and emotional healing.
In short, people who used The Silva Method were often able to achieve greater control over their emotional state, their habits, their careers and finances, and their health.