The Silva Mind Control Method

Your words have power. [...] "How are you?" "Ah - can't complain," or "No use complaining," or "Not too bad." How does the brain respond to these dreary views? Is it a "pain in the neck" to do the dishes? Is it "one big headache" to balance your checkbook? Are you "sick and tired" of the weather we are having? I am convinced that [doctors] owe a large part of their income to the words we use. Remember, the brain is no subtle interpreter. It says, "This guy's asking for a headache. Okay. One headache coming up." Of course, every time that we say something gives us a pain, a pain does not immediately result. The body's natural state is good health, and all its processes are geared toward health. In time, though, with enough verbal pounding away at its defenses, it delivers up the very illnesses we order.

[When the negative mind is neutralized through meditation], the body is set free to do what nature designed it to do: repair itself.

When the will and the imagination are in conflict, it is always the imagination that wins,

visualize your goals so that you see, feel, hear, taste, and touch them, you will get what you want.

reinforce your mental housecleaning once again, and end by saying to yourself, “Every day in every way I am getting better, better, and better.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” Do this twice a day and you are using the Coué method.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better, better, and better.” We say it only once during meditation. We also say—and this too is Dr. Coué’s influence—“Negative thoughts, negative suggestions, have no influence over me at any level of mind.

Close your eyes and look upward, behind your eyelids, at a 20-degree angle.

According to Plato, Socrates said: "I have, since my childhood, been attended by a semi-divine being whose voice from time to time dissuades me from some undertaking, but never directs me what I am to do." Another writer, Xenophon, quotes Socrates as saying, "up to now the voice has never been wrong.

As the imagination grows even stronger, so do our psychic powers. It is the imaginative mind which holds them.

It is an inescapable fact that we already know enough to strengthen with our mind the body's repair forces so that illness can be combatted more successfully.

I am filled with wonder that everyone has not caught on to the power of their minds over their bodies. [...] I meet not hundreds but many thousands [of people who practice The Silva Method for training the mind to create your own reality] who report truly wonderful self-healings. These are now commonplace to me.

If you spur your imagination with belief, desire and expectancy, and train it to visualize your goals so that you see, feel, hear, taste and touch them, you will get what you want.

[Dream that lead to real-life invention] A man was in a jungle surrounded by saages. They were coming menacingly close to him, their spears rising, then descending. Each spear had a hole in the tip. When he awoke he saw this dream as the answer to a problem that had him stymied: how to design a sewing machine. He could make the needle rise and descend, but not sew - until his dream told him to put the hole at the tip. The man was Elias Howe, who invented the first practical sewing machine.