The Silva Method

Tapping the Secrets of the Mind for Total Self-Mastery

Robert B. Stone
The World-Famous Mind Power Techniques
Developed by Jos Silva

1991, Jos Silva

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Session One
The Secret Behind the Success of the Silva Method
Most of us use only a small fraction of our minds potential power.
The goal of the Silva Method is to enable you to use the full power of your
brain. The key to doing this lies in gaining access to the alpha level of brain
frequency that is, a frequency of between 7 and 14 pulsations per second,
about half the normal rate.
When you slow your brain frequency to alpha, you gain access to capabilities of
the mind that were formerly outside your control. You become able to use the
powers of your right hemisphere to achieve your goals in every area of your life.
On Session Three, youll receive training on how to enter your alpha level. By
repeating the relaxation exercise in Session Three as well as the exercise on
your bonus session youll become more and more adept at entering alpha.

Brain Frequencies

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Session Two
The Scale of Brain Evolution

1969, 1972, 1977, 1982 by Jos Silva. All rights reserved.

Positive Statements to Be Made at the Alpha Level

From time to time, program these statements when you are at the
alpha level:
1. The difference between genius mentality and lay mentality is that geniuses
use more of their minds and use them in a special manner. I am now learning
to use more of my mind and to use it in a special manner.
2. My increasing mental faculties are for serving humanity better.
3. Every day, in every way, I am getting better, better, and better.
4. Positive thoughts bring me benefits and advantages I desire.
5. I have full control and complete dominion over my sensing faculties at this
level of the mind and any other level, including the outer conscious levels.
And this is so.
6. I will always maintain a perfectly healthy body and mind.

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Session Three
The Alpha Level
On Session Three you are given the procedures for deep physical and mental
relaxation that enable you to arrive at the alpha level. Because the Silva Method
depends on your being in control of the alpha level, you should repeat Session
Threes conditioning cycle once or twice before proceeding. To strengthen your
alpha capabilities, you should also use the relaxation exercise on your Bonus
Session. The Silva Method sound thats used here on Session Three will
facilitate the exercises and help you enter alpha.
This Silva Mind Control Sound consists of two components, one physical and
one electronic. The first, physical, component simulates a metronome, starting
at 72 beats per minute and gradually slowing until it reaches 50 beats per
minutes. This gradual slowing encourages a mild, parallel slowing of the pulse
rate, enhancing physical relaxation.
The second, electronic, component of the sound starts approximately at the
beta frequency of more than 20 pulsations per second. It encourages a
departure from beta, which helps to produce mental relaxation. The sound is
effective on this long-relax conditioning cycle, but not on the condensed cycles
that follow.

The Five-to-One Method

Sit in a comfortable position.
5. With your eyes open, stare at a point on the wall
about 45 degrees above the horizontal. Mentally
repeat and visualize the number 5 several times.
4. Close your eyes and mentally repeat and visualize
the number 4 several times.
3. As you relax parts of your body progressively,
mentally repeat and visualize the number 3 several
times.
2. As you visualize passive scenes, mentally repeat and
visualize the number 2 several times.
1. Mentally repeat and visualize the number 1 several
times. Now you are at level one, the alpha level.

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The Three-to-One Method

Sit in a comfortable position with your eyes closed.
3. Take a deep breath and as you exhale, mentally repeat and visualize the
number 3, three times.
2. Take a deep breath and as you exhale, mentally repeat and visualize the
number 2, three times.
1. Take a deep breath and as you exhale, mentally repeat and visualize the
number 1, three times. Now you are at level one, the alpha level.

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Session Four
The Mental Screen

Have you ever noticed how some people, when asked a question, turn their eyes
upward as if the answer were on the ceiling or in the sky? This is a natural eye
movement that triggers the mind to sense the information in an extrasensory
way, that is, directly.
In the top part of the diagram shown above, light from a stimulus enters the
eye, is focused by the lens, and is sent by the retina to the brain. The lower
portion of the diagram illustrates that by turning the eyes upward at a 20degree angle, the brain is triggered to sense directly.

The Three-Fingers Technique

The Three-Fingers Technique is a mental
technique that you can use for solving problems
and achieving goals. By bringing together the tips
of the first two fingers and the thumb of either
hand, you cause your mind to adjust to a deeper
level of awareness. Its a way for you to instantly
trigger alpha. Once you have programmed a
desired response at your alpha level, you can
activate that response with this technique.

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Session Five
General Problem Solving
1. Upon awakening, go to alpha with the 3-to-1 method.
2. Visualize good things that have actually happened.
3. Imagine other scenes that have not happened but which you would like to see
take place.
4. Program yourself with some positive affirmations (energy, creative ideas,
wisdom).
5. End the session, 1-to-5, feeling wide awake, better than before.

Programming Specific Encounters to Happen Successfully

1. Before going to sleep, go to your level with the 3-to-1 or 10-to-1 method.
2. Select an expert in these matters, one of the same sex as you, and see that
person at your side.
3. Program yourself to awakening at the right time to discuss the method in
question with the key person you will meet tomorrow. Go to sleep from your
level.
4. When you awaken for the first time, again go to your level with the 3-to-1 or
10-to-1 method.
5. Visualize the expert by your side and visualize or imagine the key person
tomorrow in three scenes.
A. Welcome that person warmly in a scene directly in front of you. Frame the
scene in blue.
B. Move the scene slightly to the left. You are making your point with the
person. See it accepted. If you are in doubt about what to say, ask your
expert. Ideas will come. Frame this scene in green.
C. Again move the scene slightly to the left. The meeting is over; ideas have
been agreed upon and are being successfully implemented. Frame this
scene in red.
6. Go to sleep from your level. Repeat in the morning, if time permits.

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The Three-Picture Technique

(20 degrees above the horizontal plane of sight)

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Session Six
How to Communicate Subjectively
First, two rules must be followed to succeed:
1. You must forgive and feel love for the person, or at least a sincere sense of
rapport.
2. You must propose a solution to your mutual problem that is mutually
beneficial. In other words talk not in terms of who is right but what is right.
Now, here are the steps:
1. Go to your alpha level with the 3-to-1 method.
2. Visualize or imagine the person(s) with whom you wish to communicate.
3. Mentally talk to him/her/them about the situation you wish to resolve,
remembering the two rules listed above.
4. End your session in the usual 1-to-5 way, feeling wide awake and better than
before.

Dream Control
How to order a dream to solve a problem:
If you are not remembering your dreams, you must go through two steps before
you are ready to use Dream Control. Always keep a pencil and paper within
reach.
1. Go to your alpha level with the 3-to-1 method before falling asleep. Tell
yourself, I want to remember a dream, and I am going to remember a
dream. Go to sleep from your alpha level.
2. Only when you have satisfactorily responded to step 1, take this step. It is
identical to step 1 above, except you substitute the word dreams for a
dream wherever they appear.
3. When you are responding to your satisfaction to step 2 above, you are ready
to ask for a dream with information to solve a problem. This time, at your
alpha level, say, I want to have a dream that will contain information to
solve the problem I have in mind. (Mentally state the problem.) I will have
such a dream, remember it, and understand it. Go to sleep from your alpha
level. You will have this dream. Write it down.

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The Glass-of-Water Method

Before retiring, fill a glass with water. Close your eyes. Turn them up slightly,
and drink half the water, mentally saying to yourself, This is all I have to do to
solve the problem I have in mind. State the problem. Retire. When you
awaken, drink the rest of the water in the same way, eyes closed, turned up,
mentally making the same statement.

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Session Seven
Memory Pegs
Memory Pegs are a series of standard objects that are used to remember a list
of things quickly and easily.
To use these Memory
Pegs, you do not have to
be at alpha. Just make a
picture of the object you
wish to remember and
connect that picture in
some logical way to the
Peg. To remember the
object later, see the Peg,
and you should recall the
object.

The Three-Fingers Technique for Test Taking

1. Answer each question as you usually do. If you do not know the answer, skip
it and go on to the others.
2. Come back to the skipped questions. Put your three fingers together and an
answer will come.
3. If there is still no answer with your three fingers together, close your eyes,
visualize your teacher and ask for the answer. Open your eyes and start
figuring the answer. It will come. It is your teachers!

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Session Eight
Awake Control
When you feel drowsy and sleepy on the job or on the road, here is the Silva
Method formula-type technique to stay wide awake. If driving, pull over to the
side of the road and stop your vehicles motor.
1. Use the 3-to-1 method to go to your alpha level.
2. At level, tell yourself, I am tired and sleepy. I dont want to be tired and
sleepy; I want to be wide awake, feeling fine, and in perfect health. I am
going to count from 1 to 5. At the count of 5, I will open my eyes, be wide
awake, feeling fine and in perfect health. I will not be drowsy and sleepy. I
will be wide awake.
3. Count from 1 to 5, stopping at the count of 3 to remind yourself, At the
count of 5, I will open my eyes, be wide awake, feeling fine, and in perfect
health.
4. At the count of 5 and with your eyes open, mentally tell yourself, I am wide
awake, feeling fine, and in perfect health, feeling better than before. And this
is so.

A Pick-Me-Up Exercise: Tapping the Thymus

The thymus is above the breastplate about one-and-one-half inches above where
the breastplate meets the soft tissue of the neck. By gently tapping the thymus,
you can stimulate it. This, in turns, helps to balance the systems it controls. For
the best results:
1. Tap with your three fingers held together.
2. Vibrate your fingers so they tap at about 10 times per second.
3. Put a smile on your face.

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Pain Control
Objective Procedure:
1. Point to where the pain is.
2. Determine what kind of container it would best fit into.
3. What color is the pain?
4. Imagine that you can taste it. What does it taste like?
5. What does it smell like?
6. Repeat these procedures several times, if necessary.

Subjective Procedure:
Go to your alpha level with the 3-to-1 method. Put your weaker hand into an
imaginary bucket of ice-cold water and keep it submerged until it becomes
numb. Then, place the numb hand over the pained area, mentally transferring
the numbness. Practice by replaying the portion of Session Eight audio that
contains this procedure.

Stress Control
For general stress management, go to your alpha level with the 3-to-1 method.
Remain there for a few minutes. End your session.
For specific stressors, at your alpha level, use positive mental pictures or
positive verbal affirmations to change stressful behaviors or attitudes.

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Session Nine
The Mirror of the Mind
1. Go to your alpha level with the 3-to-1 method.
2. Put a full-length mirror on your mental screen. It has a
blue frame.
3. See the problem situation in the blue-framed mirror.
Make a brief study of the problem.
4. Move the mirror slightly to the left and change the frame to white.
5. See the solution or the goal you want to reach in the white-framed mirror.
6. End your session counting from 1 to 5.
7. From now on, whenever you think of the problem, see it as the solution
framed in white.

Habit Control
In all cases, first go to the alpha level and analyze the habit. Then, at alpha...
Overeating:
Mark a big red NO on every food considered to be causing the problem.
Program yourself that hunger between meals will vanish by eating a piece of
carrot, celery, or apple, or by taking deep breaths.
Program yourself to leave something on your plate.
Program yourself that you do not always need dessert.
See yourself in the Mirror of the Mind first seeing yourself in the blueframed mirror then how you wish to be in the white-framed mirror
showing weight, clothing size, etc.
Smoking:
Determine the time of day when you smoke your first cigarette. Program
yourself to smoke it one hour later. When effective, then program still one
hour later. Soon it will be simple to stop.
Or program yourself to smoke one cigarette on the hour, then only on the
even hours. It will then be easier to stop altogether.
Program that three deep breaths will stop the immediate desire to smoke.
Program yourself to stop smoking on a particular day 30 days from now.
Reinforce every day. Say to yourself, I will stop smoking on this day and
never smoke again in my life.

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Session Ten
Creating Your Mental Laboratory
It is recommended that you devote three sessions to creating your mental
laboratory. To begin each session, enter your level with the 3-to-1 method, and
then use an extra 10-to-1 countdown.
Session 1
1. Create a room with four walls, a ceiling, and a floor, and locate it in some
familiar place.
2. Decorate the room any way you wish, but keep the south wall blank.
3. Create a chair, desk, calendar, and clock.
4. Create a file cabinet that contains all the information that now exists and that
will ever exist concerning men. Then create another file cabinet containing
the same type of information about women.
5. Install all the tools and equipment that ever existed or will ever exist. Do the
same for chemicals and medications.
6. Put all the controls for these instruments on the armrest of your chair.

Session 2
1. Install your mental screen on the south wall.
2. Create a door which you can also control from your chair.

Session 3
1. Consider carefully whom you want to select as your counselor.
2. As you sit behind your desk, visualize what your counselor looks like.
Imagine he or she is waiting outside the door that you created.
3. Now, mentally invite him or her into your laboratory.
4. From now on, whenever you enter your laboratory, do so with the 3-to-1
method; greet your counselor and say a welcoming prayer.
5. End your session now and in the future by thanking your counselor, saying a
farewell prayer, and coming out 1-to-10, 1-to-5.

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Using Your Laboratory for Healing

1. Go to your laboratory with the 3-to-1, 10-to-1 method.
2. Greet your counselor and say a welcoming prayer.
3. Put yourself or the ailing person in front of your mental screen.
4. Scan the body up and down, selecting three areas that attract your attention.
Scan these areas and scan the one that feels most important to you.
5. Allow your make-believe or guessing faculty to identify the problem.
6. Fix the problem, using your hands, your tools, your medications. Let your
final picture be of a perfect body.
7. Thank your counselor, say a farewell prayer and come out, 1-to-10 and 1-to-5.

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Session Eleven
Visualization to Provide Subjective (Right Brain) Points of
Reference
Go to your alpha level with the 3-to-1 method and embrace your psychic,
creative, and intuitive ability by taking a mental trip once or twice daily. Here
are some possible examples:
1. Visualize familiar fruits and vegetables. Smell them; taste them.
2. Visualize a flower garden. Observe the colors. Smell the different flowers.
3. Visualize a pet cat or dog. Imagine you can see inside this animal. What do
the organs look like?
4. Visualize an easily remembered person. Imagine that you can see inside this
persons body. Examine the organs. Make the heart become transparent so
you can see how it functions. Then examine the kidneys, stomach, and so
forth.

Living Room South Wall Exercise to Set Up Subjective (Right

Brain) Points of Reference
1. Go to your alpha level with the 3-to-1 method.
2. Mentally picture yourself at the front door of your home or apartment.
3. Open the door. Enter. Close the door. Go to the center of your living room
and face the south wall.
4. Scan the south wall,starting at the top and going from left to right like
reading a book, a little lower each time until you reach the ground level.
5. Change the color of the wall a few times red, black, blue, green, blue,
black, red, and back to its original color.
6. Walk to within an arms length of the wall. What is it like? Objectively extend
your arm and notice how it feels.
7. Project your intelligence inside the wall. What is it like? (Light, temperature,
sound, smell, etc.)
8. Come back out of the wall and go back to the center of the room, facing the
south wall.
9. Leave your living room and exit the front door you came in from.
10. End your session 1-to-5, feeling wide awake.

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Session Twelve
How to Use the Silva Method to Continue Your SelfTransformation
1. Take the four-day Silva Training. See the last page of this workbook.
2. Read books on Silva, but put the books down and do the exercises called for.
3. A 40-day alpha reinforcing procedure is to count backwards upon awakening
each morning. Prop up your pillow, close your eyes and count down from 100
to 1. Do this for 10 mornings and then 50 to- 1 for 10 mornings; 25 to 1 for
10 mornings, and 10 to 1 for 10 mornings. You may stay with the 10-to-1
method for going to your alpha level or use the standard 3-to-1 method.
Come out 1-to-5.
4. Occasionally deepen your level with the progressive relaxation method used
on Session Three and on the Bonus Session.
5. Improve some relationship every day through forgiveness and subjective
communication.

Daily Tools
1. Program for a perfect day every morning by going to alpha and seeing it
happen.
2. Put your family on your mental screen each night. Program for harmony and
health.
3. Put your three fingers together every time you need to function with greater
awareness.
4. Use the Glass-of-Water Technique and Dream Control to solve problems.
5. Use the Mirror of the Mind to reach goals.

Programming for a Better World

1. See diplomats and statesmen using subjective communications.
2. See physicians working side by side with psychics.
3. See educators awakening to the right brain.
4. See crime on the decrease, with prisons empty.
5. See famine end.

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Bonus Session
Alpha Reinforcement Exercise with Jos Silva
with The Alpha Sound
On track one (A) of your Bonus Session, Jos Silva provides you with an
exercise to reinforce your ability to enter the alpha level quickly and easily with
the 3-to-1 method. Use this session only after listening to and practicing the
long-relax exercise on Session Three.
You will start with the same 3-to-1 method explained at the end of the long
relax exercise on Session Three: Begin with your eyes closed, take a deep breath
and while exhaling, mentally repeat and visualize the number 3, three times.
Take another deep breath and while exhaling, mentally repeat and visualize the
number 2, three times. Take another deep breath and while exhaling, mentally
repeat and visualize the number 1, three times. Now you will be at level one, the
alpha level.
Remember that you can also deepen your level by counting down from 100 to 1,
50 to 1, or 25 to 1. A good time to do this is when you awaken; another good
time is after lunch; a third good time is just before you fall asleep.
Other features of this side include the beneficial statements you heard on
Session Two: programming statements for better health and effective sensory
projection statements. These bonus features are too long for you to give
yourself, so they are presented here for your use.

The Alpha Sound

This is the alpha rhythm sound. It is not useful until you have completed most
of the sessions in this program. Then it becomes a valuable adjunct for helping
you to maintain your level to apply what you have learned.
Also, because you have programmed yourself to be more sensitive to this
rhythm and more receptive to its benefits, you may find that just playing the
alpha sound can be beneficial. Many Silva graduates find it helpful to place the
alpha sound on injured or painful parts of their bodies; for physical health, it
helps to normalize the abnormal.

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