How You Can Use the Power of Visualization and Affirmations
to Create “Lucky Coincidences”
Is “Luck” Within Your Control?
We now come to the premier
techniques for harnessing your mind’s power to shape your life and move you
towards your dreams and aspirations.
This principles below will
specifically teach you to reach your goals.
We
will teach you two techniques in this lesson.
In our last lesson you learned how
to use the alpha level of mind to gain creative ideas and inspiration. You are
now ready for the next step. You will learn how to tap into your mind to
shape your reality. Perhaps you’re looking to be more positive, to stick to
your diet, to improve your golf swing or to end a bad habit. We’ll show you how
you can use affirmations and creative visualization to reprogram your mind and
reshape your attitudes and behavior.
It
all starts with your imagination. Imagination is the ability to create an idea,
a vision or an image of something new.
In creative visualization, we use
the power of imagination to create a mental image of what we want to accomplish
or obtain.
Your
goal could be on any level
- physical
- emotional
- mental
- spiritual
You might imagine yourself driving
that BMW you always wanted, owning a home in the country, married to your ideal
mate, succeeding at your job or having $100,000.00 in your bank account.
No matter what your goal, the
technique is basically the same. You imagine the desired outcome in your mind.
At the same time, you repeat a positive affirmation about the goal. The
affirmation is in the present tense.
Imagination is the beginning of
creation. You imagine what you desire,you will what you imagine and at last you
create what you will.
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
The
Scientific Evidence
There is strong scientific evidence
that visualization can be used to dramatically improve your results in sports,
public speaking, performing arts and anything else which involves practice.
In one study, Australian
psychologist Allen Richardson conducted an experiment with basketball players
making hoop shots. He divided the players in three groups.
- Group A
– was asked to practice their shots on a basketball court for 20 minutes a
day.
- Group B
– was asked not to practice at all.
- Group C
– was asked to mentally rehearse shooting a basketball through a hoop for
20 minutes each day.
At the end of the study Group A
improved their hoop shot ability by 25%. Group B, as expected, showed no
improvement at all.
What was truly surprising, was that Group C improved by 24%, almost as much as Group
A, even though they had not physically set foot in a basketball court.
There is also overwhelming
scientific evidence that visualization can be used to heal the body.
Doctors such as O. Carl Simonton have been helping patients recover from
serious illnesses such as cancer by combining visualization with modern
medicine. The patients often made dramatic improvements simply by visualizing
their bodies behaving in ideal, healthy ways.
We’ll
look at more of this fascinating evidence in our next lesson which will be on
mind-body healing.
What we’re going to suggest in this
lesson is something even more incredible.
Your mind’s influence is not just
limited to improving your emotions, skills and physical body. Your mind can
influence the world outside your apparent physical control.
In other words, your mind can spawn
amazing coincidences to move you towards your goals. The coincidences
could be things that were seemingly unconnected to you and beyond your control.
The techniques we will teach you do
not just make you more focused on your goals. They directly influence your
reality.
Laboratory evidence pouring out of
universities such as Princeton and Stanford has shown that volunteers are able
to influence matter by their thoughts. So far the evidence has been limited to
effects on random number generators, dice and electronic equipment. We will
look at some of this evidence in Lesson Seven.
What is still lacking is scientific
evidence that visualization can create “coincidences” in the physical world,
outside your immediate control. This of course, is hard to test in a lab.
But thousands of scientists and
millions of other people in the world do believe in this because they have
experienced it in their own lives.
In short, just because an effect
cannot be tested in a lab, does not mean it does not exist.
Some of the greatest thinkers in the
world—Einstein, Edison, Jung, Carnegie and Goethe (the man with the highest
recorded IQ, 210)—all believed in the power of the mind to create coincidences.
I believe that the mind has the
power to affect groups of atoms and even tamper with the odds of atomic
behavior, and that even the course of the world is not predetermined by
physical law, but may be altered bythe uncaused volition of human beings.
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington,
English mathematician and AstroPhysicist
Let’s take a look at some of these
personal experiences. Millions of people worldwide have reported such
coincidences.
On our web site we maintain a
library of letters from people who have used Silva Life System techniques to
accelerate healing, gain inspiration, start a business, find a dream job,
achieve goals, walk again after a car accident, earn a six-figure income, and
find peace of mind.
Letters
are sorted in categories:
- Health
- Personal Development
- Career
- Spiritual Development
You can access this library anytime
by clicking here
Below, we have included segments
from letters that we have received from students of the Silva Life System.
These letters will give you some ideas of what can be accomplished when the
mind is properly harnessed.
Letters from Students
The following are extracts from
letters we have received from students in the past 12 months. These letters and
more, are catalogued on our website
“Investment Success”
[The] technique already solved one
problem with my investments. Two days after doing it, the broker called to
inform me [that] my value was up 40% and he wanted to get together with me over
dinner to discuss better and safer ways of protecting and increasing my assets.
This is exactly what I programmed for.”
~ Jim from Illinois
“Mental Rehearsal for Sports & Public Speaking”
“I have received many great
complements on my oral presentations which can be attributed to my ability to
visualize the presentation before it happens. I have also used this technique
in golf and kung-fu. Ever since then, it has helped me to become better at my
game and master my techniques.”
~ C.S. from Warwick Rhode Island
“Weight-Control”
“I did [the technique] in which I
saw myself making better choices about what I eat, and ended with the result of
being my ideal size. Recently, I noticed that without struggle, I have made
dramatic changes in the way I eat—much less fat and sugar and smaller helpings,
yet I seem to be more satisfied and enjoying the taste of the food I eat more
than ever.”
~ G.H. of New York
“Improving Your Career”
“I’m a sales-manager by profession,
and I have to say the visualization is such a tremendous part of being
successful in my field. Virtually every time I use it, I come close or hit the
target on what I wanted to achieve.”
~ Jeff from Fort Wayne, Indiana
“Looking Better & Attracting People”
“I began to see improvement
physically. My joint pain disappeared and my energy level was up. I also began
to attract people—especially men, in a way that I had not before experienced. I
also had people say to me I looked 10 years younger and wanted to know what I
did. I lost weight.”
~ Mary from California
How
to apply these techniques
Basic
Technique 1 – Affirmations
Affirmations are positive
statements you repeat to yourself while in a meditative or alpha level of mind.
Affirmations are always done in the present tense, as if the action has already
taken place.
The concept was made famous by a
French physician called Emile Coue. Coue was responsible for thousands of
remarkable documented healings at the beginning of the 20th century. His remedy
was to combine western medicine with the power of affirmations. Patients were
made to repeat positive healing affirmations to themselves while in a relaxed
frame of mind.
Coue’s most famous affirmation was
“everyday, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
When done at the alpha level,
affirmations tend to be countless times more powerful than when done at the
beta, or waking state.
Why?
Because when you reach the alpha
level of mind, your subconscious is brought to a conscious level—this means
it’s easier for you to convey commands directly to your subconscious.
Several affirmations that we use in
the Silva Life System seminar include:
“I will always maintain a perfectly
healthy body and mind”
“Positive thoughts, positive
emotions, bring me all the benefits and advantages I desire”
“I am learning to use more of my
mind and to use it in a better way”
You can also create your own
affirmations:
Looking for job satisfaction? Try
saying…
“I have a perfect career that I
truly love and enjoy. I have great opportunities for advancement and I am
earning a wonderful salary of __________ a year.”
Looking to slim down? Try saying…
“I only enjoy eating the right types
of healthy, nutritious foods that are good for my body.”
“I love the feeling of increased
energy I get after exercising.”
“Every day, I am burning calories
and getting closer to my ideal weight”
Looking to attract abundance? Try…
“I’m so happy and grateful now that
money comes to me, in ever increasing quantities, through multiple sources, on
a continuous basis.”
Other affirmations you can use
include:
“My relationship with _______ is
growing.”
“I enjoy my work and am richly
rewarded.”
“I have enough time, energy, wisdom
and funds to accomplish all my goals.”
Before you start creating your
affirmation, note these important rules:
1.
Affirmations must be in the present tense.
Your subconscious mind does not
think in terms of past, present or future. If you say, I want to
be an excellent golfer then your subconscious understands this as a statement
of wanting. What you then get is the wanting or desire to be an
excellent golfer but not the actual ability itself.
What you should say is “I am an
excellent golfer”. Your subconscious understands this as a statement of your
present reality. It therefore works to make this reality true.
Remember, replace I want with
I am
2.
You must believe that the goal is within your reach.
If you repeat an affirmation, but at
the same time you’re secretly thinking you cannot accomplish it, you hijack the
process.
When you first start practicing this
you should start with small believable goals. As you achieve these goals your
confidence in yourself and in the power affirmations grows. This allows you to
tackle greater and greater issues.
The best way to implant an affirmation is to release your
mind from all desire and intention.
Merely state the suggestion to
yourself without passion as a thing that is already so. Something that is true
is obvious and undeniable — it does not need to be shouted or defended. It
simply is. Use repetition to reinforce the effects of the affirmation.
3.
Affirmations must always be done as a positive statement.
If you’re trying to drop weight
don’t say, “I am not overweight”. Instead say, “I am slim and
healthy”. When you see a phrase such as “I am no longer ill”, the
dominant image in your mind is that of illness. When you turn that around to a
phrase such as “I am healthy and well”, the dominant image in your mind
is then one of health and wellness.
Remember, always turn the
affirmation into a positive statement.
Positive affirmations are extremely
useful in causing fundamental change, not only in behavior and beliefs, but in
the external conditions of life.
When a suggestion is correctly
injected into the subconscious mind, the effect is nothing short of miraculous.
It does not show itself overnight, however, but is gradual and cumulative.
Basic
Technique 2 – Creative Visualization
While affirmations are good—Silva
pioneered a technique that is far more powerful that using simple affirmations.
This technique is called creative visualization.
This involves visualizing the end
result of your goal or desire while you are in the alpha level of mind.
The concept of creative
visualization has been known for ages. It gained renewed popularity in the
1970s when a Silva graduate by the name of Shakti Gawain wrote a best-selling
book about it.
Just like affirmations your
visualization should be done in the “present tense”. Lets say you’re looking to
own a brand new car. You want to visualize yourself in the car and feel the
moment as if it is happening this instant and not at some time in the future.
In other words, feel the sense
of joy in owning the car, rather than the sense of wanting or the
sense of desire for the car.
To visualize effectively Jose Silva
suggests creating a mental screen in front of your eyes. This should be like
the screen you see in a cinema. It should be forward, in front of your eyes,
and raised at an angle of around 20 degrees. The screen should be at least 6 feet
in front of you. Make the screen as large as you can, almost like a movie
screen in a cinema.
Try
it now.
Close your eyes and visualize the
mental screen, raised slightly 20 degrees above the horizon, and at least 6
feet in front of you.
When you perform creative
visualization you will project images onto this screen.
If you are looking to improve your
sports skills, visualize yourself playing the
game perfectly. See yourself making perfect moves, shooting every basket,
making the perfect swing. Feel the joy you feel when you play the game well.
If you are looking to shed some
pounds, see yourself healthy and fit. Feel
the joy of having a beautiful body. See people complimenting you.
Source: Lesson 4 – Silva Life System Online Course
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