Silva Method (India) Kolkata

By Avadhut Das, Edited by George Kuruvilla

80% of this is someone else's ideas and words. Had heard a tape many years ago, I don't know who was the speaker, but he was a Silva Teacher. If you have also heard the same tape and you know his name, kindly inform me so that I may offer him here his due credit. Had heard the cassette at alpha level unlimited times continuously for more than a month! So here it is from memory:

We know that the brain is located in the cranial vault. It weighs about 3 pounds. It has a specific shape, size and color. It has about 100 billion neurons. 

Crossing a gap of less than a millionth of an inch (the synaptic cleft), the neurotransmitter from the Axon terminals contact the adjacent neuron's receptor sites, called dendrites. Some neurons may have dendritic branches that make connections with tens of thousands of other neurons. It is estimated that at any given time there are about a 100 trillion electrical synapses happening in a human brain.

The Electroencephalograph (EEG) instrument amplifies these impulses and records the electrical activity of the brain. It shows patterns known as brain waves or brain rhythms measured in Cycles Per Second (CPS). The brain wave patterns can change from as low as half CPS up to 30 CPS or even higher. Just like the Earth has Electro-magnetic fields, our brain because of all the electrical activity of the neurons, also generate a type of electro-magnetic field. Research shows that when Neuronal fields generated from the right brain hemisphere at the precise 10.5 CPS interact with Neuronal fields of another brain; it makes the other brain resonate with it. Scientists are able to tell us as all this because all this can be physically perceived.

Graphic on top left : The two hemispheres of the Human Brain	Graphic on top right : Structure of a Typical Neuron
	Graphic below that:  A Synapse.
	Photo at right : An EEG test in progress.
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We go to the scientists who have spent their lives studying the mind and we ask these people, “how big is the mind” and they say, “I don’t know.” So we say, “Ok, I will give you an easier one”. “What shape is the mind?” They say, “I don’t know.” “What color is the mind?” They say, “I don’t know.” “What is the mass of the mind?” They say, “I don’t know.” If we ask, “Where is the mind located?” “We don’t know that either”, they answer.

Dr. Bimmal Rakshit, Director of Silva Method (India) explains: “If we think of the brain as the bio-computer hardware, the mind can be thought of as the bio-computer software.” Just like a more optimized software can not only make the same hardware perform better but also access previously inaccessible parts of the hardware, with the Self-Mind-Control training we gain access to hitherto inaccessible parts of our own brains.

Through common experience we know that there is a correlation between the function of the mind and the brain because if you alter your brain function, there is a change in mind. If you can alter your state of mind or consciousness there is also a corresponding change in the brain activity. For example when people take drugs or alcohol, they change their brain chemistry and their state of mind also changes. It has also been found that when someone is in prayer their brain chemistry also changes. We find that the brain tends to slow down.

According to the brain wave research, the fastest of all brain frequencies are called beta brain waves. Any time the human brain pulsates at 14 CPS or more, the scientists call it the beta frequency. If your brain is pulsating at less than 14 CPS but above 7 CPS, they call it the alpha brain waves. The alpha brain waves are the strongest, most rhythmic & energetic of all the brain frequencies. The theta brain wave lies between the 4 & 7 cycle brain frequencies. The delta frequencies are the slowest - an half to almost 4 cycles of brain wave activity. The various type of brain activities are correlated with different types of functioning.

The beta brain waves are the fastest, and correlate with the use of the physical senses predominantly.

Scientists find that using our sensory organs principally tends to make our brains to function at the faster beta waves. The alpha and theta brain waves correspond more to mental phenomenon like ESP, intuition & prayer for example. Scientists are yet to learn about the brain’s delta levels of activity. When someone is in a coma or when sages are in deep Samadhi state, their brains are at delta frequencies. We too might experience them in deep sleep but we have no controlled awareness or recall of what happened in that state of deep sleep.

When most people get into an alpha theta state, they have a tendency to give up their external awareness and go to sleep. But it has been found that with training, a person can learn to remain aware and use even these deeper levels of mind.

In everyday life, an average person goes through all the brain wave states. When we are awake we function at around 21 CPS, the beta brain wave frequency. While principally remaining at beta, our brain does dip to alpha about 3 times a minute. However on going to sleep, the brain activity slows down and within 10 to 15 minutes of sleep the average person produces delta frequency predominantly and they are in the state of deep sleep, they are unaware of what is going on externally in their environment.

“Sleep research” further shows that after about 70 to 90 minutes, there is a change in brain frequency that it speeds up and starts producing predominant alpha brain waves. As this is occurring, typically the person is also dreaming. But it only lasts 5-6 minutes in the first sleep cycle for the average person and then brain waves decrease again back down to delta and the person experiences almost another 70 to 90 minutes of delta. Again the brain speeds up for the second sleep cycle producing the alpha brain wave state. This time around the brain functions at alpha a little longer. So throughout the night we find a fluctuation between deep levels of sleep & alpha levels, in and out, all night long with most people sleeping 4, 5 maybe 6 cycles per night.

With the delta deprivation study, the scientists found out that totally depriving a person of delta sleep, he can go up to 30 to 45 days before any notable effects start occurring. But on depriving a person of the alpha portion of the sleep, the scientists found that right after the first night of alpha deprivation, even though the people slept for their regular 6 or even up to 10 hours of sleep, they noted that the next morning people complained of being fatigued even though they had all that sleep.

On depriving those of the second night’s alpha sleep state the people complained that not only they became very fatigued but very irritable and hard to get along with. We do know that sleeping pills for example have the effect of suppressing alpha and people do complain the next morning of being fatigued & irritable. On depriving the test subjects for 3 to 4 days of alpha sleep state, the people complained of losing normal problem solving ability. Some of them started almost hallucinating, bordering on the verge of what appeared to be schizophrenic action.

They then found that if they allow those people to go to sleep undisturbed, the following night they had a very large increase in the percentage of alpha functioning, as if they had to make up for the alpha they were deprived of the previous nights. Based on these studies, many scientists have come to a conclusion that it is a necessary requirement for a human being to function at least a few numbers of times at alpha level if they have to be at top physical mental functioning. Well, it wasn’t very long before scientists came up with the idea of what would happen if, instead of suppressing alpha, we increased it. What will that do?

Using bio-feedback training on test subjects they found that by increasing the duration of time a person spends at alpha brain frequency, they reported feeling more better, improved health and lesser anxiety in daily life. The Silva Method’s research goes far beyond even the current research being done in the bio-feedback, because we find that people can learn to function at these very levels without the use of expensive bio-feedback equipment. The Silva method’s 65 years of research also indicates that when a person goes through this system of mental training, that there is a definite co-relation between that person’s ability to function with a wider range of brain wave activity.

Jose Silva the founder of the Silva method noted that the percentage of people who improved their position in life from what they were born into was very small. He wondered why people can’t alter their situation in life to whatever they would like it to be. He noted that the only difference between a very successful person and a not so successful person in any field is that the successful person has learnt how to solve more problems in that field than the not so successful person. They have learnt to overcome obstacles that the other person has yet to learn to overcome.

He noted that many of the most successful people in the world, the geniuses, the people who have solved some of the biggest problems for humanity, all claimed that many times they got information that they didn’t know how they got or, from where they got it. Einstein talks about getting more information day-dreaming on his front door step than he ever did in his laboratory. We find Edison saying that he finds the answers to some of the problems he was facing in his research out of dreams. This so-called intuitive ability is like the inherent ability to walk that we are born with, but only a very few people have learnt of how to develop it, how to bring it forth, or how to manifest it.

Jose Silva through years of research pioneered a systematic training system that allows people to train and use their intuitive ability in practical ways. The first paid public class of Silva training was conducted in 1966 in the state of Texas to 97 art students. Since then, the Silva Method of mind training has helped around half a billion people, trained in 180 countries develop their intuitive abilities.

What type of success do we have with the Silva Method? How many people do really learn this ability to their satisfaction? How many learn how to use more of their mind in this easy, relaxed, calm & controlled manner by using their right brain hemisphere at Alpha frequency? Well we do offer a full money back guarantee till a particular point of the training. If you are not satisfied, we return your money, no questions asked.

Now, that should be also a measure of how effective we are in providing this system of training, because if we get 40% refund claim then we are 60% effective. In school that would be equal to first division! If 10% claim refund, then we are 90% effective. Now let us measure it with any other product. Think yourself of what service you provide, and just ask yourself, “if I offered to everybody I deal with, with whatever I do in life 100% money back guarantee, how satisfied will people be with my performance?”

Well, Silva method worldwide since about half a century has less than half of 1% of people asking for a refund! That alone is the measurement of our effectiveness. People are satisfied with their development, with what they gain from this system of training. Now what else do they get besides the ability to be highly intuitive. Why would anybody want to be highly intuitive? What are the benefits? What are the advantages?

Well, in a laboratory if a monkey is put under psychological stress, (nothing physical, only psychological) then the monkey produces an ulcer in less than a week. So they say the ulcer is psychosomatic. It was due to the mind. The inability to deal with stressful situations causes the system to allow ulcers to develop. Doctors say that 80% of our diseases are psychosomatic. That means if we can change the way our mind functions then we should be able to help alleviate 80% of the health problems that human beings experience.

In the very first phases of the training we teach people how to relax mentally & physically. How to gain greater control of their own mind and learn how to use it more effectively so that you are not as affected by the everyday stressful situations. You learn to relax anytime, any place and allow your body to repair itself.

Now in business many companies are looking at the Silva method because they find that a happy, successfully functioning employee with better health has less time off due to illness and lesser family worries and is more successful in concentrating at work. Their success in their own personal family lives further adds to their ability to perform optimally at work.

An intuitive person in a business is very much desired. Why does a senior executive get paid so highly? It is because they make decisions. Decisions that are expected to enhance the bottom-line. Decisions that help rake in customer satisfaction and high profits.

Anybody can make decisions when all the information is available - anybody. The idea of these executives is to make decisions when all the information is not available, but only some of the information is available. Now they find that some people are very good at that end, while some people are not as effective.

In a study done by Douglas Dean and John Mihalasky in their book “Executive ESP” we find research that shows that when they took a group of corporate presidents and people who have to make decisions for a living, and who were responsible for more than doubling their company’s profits, they all admitted to using their intuition to make their successful decisions.

Those who had doubled corporate profits also showed a very high intuitive factor and those who had not done very well, where the company had lost money, showed chance levels of intuition, of psychic function.

This causes some companies to start looking into methods, where they can train their executives to be highly intuitive, or to seek out executives who already are highly intuitive and get them into their business, because corporations are interested in their profits and these are the individuals who will get them there.

In areas of general self-management, the Silva method of mental training offers techniques to enhance interpersonal relationship skills. Many people go through life with the “if it weren’t for you” attitude. If it weren’t for my mother, if it weren’t for the school I went, if it weren’t for my two kids, I could do this, I could have done that. And every time we point our finger to the reasons for our problems, we get 3 of our fingers pointing right back towards us!

Now we need to remember that we are either the cause of our problems or we have allowed them to exist. Even things such as fears & phobias. In your childhood if your mother showed you the fear of doctor’s needle to discipline you, that may be so. But now you are an adult. If you are still frightened by the very sight of an injection needle it is not your mother’s problem. It is now your problem.

We find that there are ways available to help a person overcome fear, phobias, habits, to have better interpersonal relationships with each other – by greater understanding of ourselves in particular and that we are not stuck with what we had when we started, that we can change, that we can improve, that we can be better and better than we are now.

Also in Silva training you learn, how to go to sleep without drugs, how to wake up without alarm clocks, how to learn a system that will allow you to develop the ability to gain greater control over pain, even bleeding in some cases, how to eliminate health sapping habits. Systematic step by step mental techniques that help and encourage people to get over habits that have been taking a toll on them.

All habit is, is an impression on brain cells. It is a reinforced behavior pattern, which through every repetition increases the programming on the brain. To overcome the habit, instead of trying to suppress all that programming, all we have to do is put in a new, stronger programming that neutralizes the effect of the habitual pattern. All it takes is 30 days to reprogram any of our habits, no matter how long they have been with us. No more have you to be a little slave of your damaging habits.

Now that is impressive. Silva graduates report leaving drug abuse habits, smoking habits and other habits in 30 days flat without withdrawal symptoms and they do it effortlessly without any associated trauma, pain or pills! To be able to turn off an abusive habit is a great beginning to start putting ones life back again together. Changing one’s self image from a low, poor, self image to a loving one. We can be what we want to be. It is our choice.

With the right mental tools, we start identifying and making the required corrections. It is interesting to learn how to use more of your mind not only to help yourself in becoming a better human being, but to help all of humanity.

Learn the ability to channelize your mental energies in a special way where you can mentally communicate not just to humans, but even to events – of future, past or present; -- to help you solve problems and to bring your life more under your own control.

Your mind can perform amazing miracles for you.

I heartily invite you to come join us for the 2 day Silva method training.

When it comes to self-growth, in your life, don’t please settle for anything less than the original, authentic and the complete mental training program that guarantees you unprecedented growth right from day one.

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