Contents & Guide

The Silva Mind Method for Getting Help From the Other Side

PART I DEVELOPING THE CONTACT

Chapter 1 - What Is The Other Side

Chapter 2 - What Help from the Other Side Can Mean to You

Chapter 3 - How to Contact the Other Side

Chapter 4 - Improving Contact with the Other Side

Chapter 5 - Helpful Hints About the Other Side

Chapter 6 - Getting Answers from the Other Side

PART II USING THE CONTACT

Chapter 7 - What to Do Before You Ask for Help

Chapter 8 - How to Get Help Solving People Problems

Chapter 9 - Help from the Other Side for Health Problems

Chapter 10 - Help from the Other Side for Business Success

Chapter 11 - Help from the Other Side for Life’s More Difficult Problems

Chapter 12 - Your On-Going Partnership with the Other Side

Chapter 13 - Bonus Chapter Guided Imagery

 About the Authors

José Silva
José Silva is one of the world’s greatest success stories. During his
lifetime, he was a businessman, athlete, artist, educator, scientist,
philosopher, and the founder of The Silva Mind Method. One of the
true pioneers of mental training, José Silva started his research in
1944. After 22 years of research, José developed his widely
acclaimed Silva Mind Method He started his business career at the
tender age of six. This self-made man would eventually work his
way up and become a well-respected businessman. He established
an electronics training school in his hometown Community
College, designed and received patents for several biofeedback
instruments, and had written over a dozen books. To top it all, he
developed a time-proven program that is today taught in 30
different languages, and is represented in 111 countries,
worldwide. He attributed his business success to his abilities to
make distinctive judgement, in being creative in problem solving,
and the mental strength to make and carry out business decisions.
He valued the role of intuitive intelligence and devoted his life in
wanting to teach others find their own natural creative abilities
within themselves.

Robert B. Stone, Ph.D

Robert B. Stone was an internationally known author, teacher,
and expert in achievement of the human potential. He was
author and coauthor of over 80 published books, most notably on
self-help and powers of the mind. He wrote or co-authored over
80 books on the subject. “I have been a lecturer of the Silva Mind
Method, and such have come to wish I could shout from the
rooftops its many quiet successes - the slow advent of first
psycho-neuro-immunology in the medical field, the
accomplishments of entire faculties in the education field based
on the Silva Mind Method, and the secret problem solving
achievements of business executives who use the method daily.”
Chapter 1 - What Is “The Other Side”?
What Is the Silva Method?

The Silva Method is a way of relaxing the body and the mind
and then using the slowed-down brain-wave frequency and
the stepped-up right-brain activity to produce some positive
result. The use of the right brain is the key. Because the right
brain is in touch with the rest of intelligence in the universe—
the creative source—it creates.

Where a problem exists, it creates a solution.

Where abnormality exists, it creates normality.

Where conflict exists, it creates harmony.

If the Silva Method was limited to relaxing the body and

quietening the mind, it could rightfully be called traditional
meditation—but is more. The Silva Method is active; it’s
dynamic. What happens after those three deep breaths is not
the state of “mindlessness” usually associated with traditional
meditation, but rather, a state of mindfulness. When using the
Silva Method, each person controls his or her own mind to
harness the creative energies of his or her Higher Self

Contact with the other side is not far away—just a few

mental steps and you’re there. Benefits begin almost
immediately. The more you use the contact, the better
those benefits become.
 Exercise
Put down this booklet and enjoy a few minutes of insulation from
stress.

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and visualize a passive scene.
When you do this, you will be activating your brain’s right
hemisphere.
You will be more connected to the other side— the creative realm
and the life force.
When you open your eyes, you will feel better than you do now. You
will feel revitalized and refreshed.

Here are the steps.

Listen to them and read them first.

Sit in comfortable position.

Close your eyes .
Take a nice, deep breath and, as you exhale, relax your body Picture
a peaceful place that you have found in the past to be tranquil and
beautiful—a beach, a meadow, a tree—and visualize yourself there
for a minute or two.
Tell yourself that when you open your eyes you will feel great, wide
awake, better than before.
Open your eyes.
Read these six steps again; notice how simple and natural they are.
The first three are what most people do when they come home
after a hard day’s work. The last three are a common form of
daydreaming. Ready?

Put the book down now and do it. You have just taken the first
step to becoming closer to the other side.
Chapter 2 - What Help from the Other Side Can
Mean to You
Becoming Less Destructive and More Creative
The typical man or woman functions at brain frequency range of
from 1 to 20 cycles per second: 20 cycles when awake, 1 to 4
cycle when asleep, and seldom at the intermediate frequencies
except when passing from awake to asleep or asleep to awake.
Yet the intermediate frequencies are the ones that provide
conscious use of the right brain hemisphere, our spiritual
connection. The ideal thinking frequency occurs at the center of
the brain frequency spectrum, at 10 cycles per second, which
scientists call the alpha level.

Control Your Mind for Results

The brain has 30 billion neurons. Each neuron is a collection of

atoms that works for you like the components of computer. You
have a built-in computer with billions and billions of
components, superior to any made by man. Most office
computers can communicate with outside computer systems
through the telephone lines, tapping vast bodies of information
to supplement their own programming. Our mental computer
can do the same thing through its right hemisphere, tapping into
a larger Computer that is called Higher Intelligence. No right
hemisphere activity, no connection to the larger Computer.
 Steps for Day 1:

1. Sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes.

Turn them slightly upward.

2. Count backward from 100 to 1.

3. Visualize a whole green watermelon.

4. Imagine someone cutting the watermelon in half

and the two halves falling apart so you can see
inside.

5. Put the halves back together and make the

watermelon disappear.

6. Count from 1 to 5 and open your eyes. Remind

yourself at the count of 3 that when you open your
eyes at the count of 5 you will be “wide awake,
feeling great.”

Remind yourself again at the count of 5, “I am wide

awake, feeling better than before.”
Chapter 3 - How to Contact the Other Side
Let us now examine the relaxation connection. How does such a
simple act as relaxation enable us to succeed in something so
important as contacting the other side?

Your body’s muscles, tissues, glands, and organs are still holding
on to tensions acquired during the day. These tensions need to
be released. Once you know how to release tension, you will be
healthier and happier. True relaxation is the best tonic you can
give yourself.

Let’s see the brain in action.

You will not have to put the book down to follow these
instructions. Make a fist….Your right hand is now closed into a
fist. Your mind picked up the idea to do so from this page. Your
mind then passed that instruction to the hand via the nerves
and muscles.
Tighten your fist, tighter and tighter, and then to let go. The
reason for this instruction is to permit you to remember the
feeling of true physical relaxation. The instant of letting go is
the feeling of relaxation. Not five seconds later, but the
moment of release. So be ready for that feeling. Ready?
Tighten your fist….Tighter still…. Now let go! Doesn’t that feel
good? That’s relaxation.

Remember it. That’s the feeling you will be enjoying as you

do the relaxation exercises in the pages ahead. You can
experiment with this feeling in other parts of your body
right now if you wish.
Tense up an ankle by pointing your toes down so as to
create a tightness in your ankle ….. Tighter….Now let
go. If feels so good. Clench your teeth by tightening
up your jaw……Tighter….Now let go. It feels so good.
 A quick reminder:

• Relaxing the body permits you to relax the mind.

• Relaxing the mind slows your brain-wave frequency.

• Slowing your brain-wave frequency permits the brain’s

right hemisphere to function more actively.

• The right hemisphere is your connection to the non-

material or creative realm—the other side.

Relaxation is as necessary to getting help from the other

side as picking up the receiver and dialing is to making a
telephone call. If getting help from the other side is
important to you, then the more quickly you acquire the
skills you need in order to relax, the better.

I will now give you detailed instructions for the first five
mornings, then the first five afternoons, and lastly the
first five evenings.

I will outline your full program for each day so that you
can see it at a glance.
What to Do in the Morning—Days 1-5
When you wake up in the morning, prop up your pillow. Then,
reclining on your bed, close your eyes and count back from 100
to 1. Counting backward is relaxing. Counting forward readies us
for action. One, two, three, go!

Here is your morning action plan for the first five mornings:

1. On awakening, prop up the pillows and recline.

2. Close your eyes, turning them slightly upward.

3. Count backward from 100 to 1.

4. When you reach the count of I, say to yourself mentally,

“Each time I relax this way, I go deeper, faster.”

5. End your session by counting from 1 to 5. Stop at the count

of 3 and say to yourself, “When I open my eyes at the count
of 5, I will be wide awake, feeling great.”

6. At the count of 5, open your eyes and say to yourself, “I am

wide awake, feeling great.”

Read these instructions over again now, so you will be able to

do the exercise correctly each morning.

Congratulations, in advance, on completing your first

controlled visit to the alpha level.
What to Do at Noon—Days 1-5

Each day, after you have had your lunch and are relaxed, I will lead
you through some mental picturing. First we will use
visualization, then imagination.

What is the difference?

Visualization is mentally picturing something you have already

seen with your eyes. It is recalling a picture to your mind’s eye.
Imagination is mentally picturing something you have not yet seen
with your eyes. It is conjuring up an image of something
completely new in your mind’s eye. If I asked you to mentally
picture a lemon, you would visualize a lemon.
We will start with the more familiar mental pictures—
visualization. Since we are moving ahead in five-day cycles, I will
now give you five fun exercises to do after lunch, coinciding with
the five mornings on which you deepen your relaxation by counting
down from 100 to 1. I would like you to do the first visualization
exercise right now, so you get the hang of it. This exercise is in
three parts: relaxation, visualization, and bring out. Go over each of
these three parts carefully, then put the book down and try the
exercise.
What to Do at Night—Evenings 1-5
In the morning, you are practicing relaxation. You are learning to
control the alpha level where thinking is centered.

At noon, you are practicing mental picturing, a right-hemisphere

activity.

At night, you will combine the two. You will relax and picture. Relax
plus Picture = Results. It’s that easy. And you’ve known the formula
all along; you have been using it in your everyday life. How? Well, you
come home at night after a hard day’s work, relax in a comfortable
chair, and picture your problems: how bad business is, how many bills
you have to pay, how small the house is, how old the car, how ill the
baby, and so on. And you worry.

When you relax and picture this way, you are being creative. But
what are you creating? You are creating the very things you do not
want. You are adding creative energy to your problems. And you
wonder why your troubles persist.

All that is changing now. You will use the formula to create solutions
instead of problems. And what a change there will be in your life! The
relaxation you do in the morning and the mental picturing you do at
noon will now be brought together for your evening exercise. With a
few minutes of relaxing and picturing before you go to sleep, not only
will you begin to become more adept in both steps, but you will soon
begin to make important changes in your life as well.
 Here are your visualization assignments for
the next four days:
Day 2—Yourself. Visualize yourself standing in front of a full-
length mirror. If your have any difficulty with facial details (we
often take our faces for granted), look in the mirror and
memorize your face. Then try again.

Day 3—Somebody you live with (or a close friend or relative, if

you live alone). Again, we tend to take for granted the faces
we see every day. Sneak an extra peek or two before doing his
exercise.

Day 4—A peaceful place. Select a tranquil place you have

visited. It could be a beach, a hammock, a hillside, a lake, a
mountaintop, a shady nook. Then visualize yourself there.
Make the picture real, so that you experience its tranquility
again. If it is as relaxing as you expect, we will be referring to
this place later as “your favorite place of relaxation.”

Day 5—The house or apartment building you live in. See it

from the outside. Remember everything you can about it.
Check it out from top to bottom. Remember to visualize
specific colors and minute details You now have a plan for the
first five mornings and the first five afternoons.
 Action Plans—Evenings 1-5
In each of these nightly exercises, relax the way you did in the morning,
then follow the instructions provided below to enhance your relaxation
and move toward contact with the other side.

Evening 1—Try the progressive relaxation described in the preceding

section. Next, do you remember the watermelon you “saw” right after
lunch? Visualize it again. “See” the seeds, the red meat, the green rind,
and the white inner rind. Bring it closer. Watch it get larger. Recall what it
smells like and what it tastes like. Now make it disappear. Do the same
with a lemon, and then with an onion. End your session counting from 1 to
5, as you did this morning.

Evening 2—Do the stepped-up method of progressive relaxation described

above. Visualize yourself as you did today after lunch. Change the picture
so you look younger, healthier, more vibrant, and radiant. End by counting
from 1 to 5 in the usual way.

Evening 3—Again, do the stepped-up method of progressive relaxation.

Visualize the person you visualized at lunch. Forgive that person for all
conflicts and misunderstandings and, in turn, ask to be forgiven. Feel it
happening. End by counting from 1 to 5.

Evening 4—After a 100 to 1 countdown, relax your eyelids. Concentrate on

the feeling. Let this relaxed feeling pass all the way down to your toes.
“Every day I get healthier and wealthier. Every day I get better and better
at what I am doing. Every day I am making this world a better place to live
in.” end the session by counting from 1 to 5.

Evening 5—Begin with the 100 to 1 countdown. Visualize your favorite

place of relaxation. Change the mental picture to your house or apartment
building, just the way you saw it after lunch today, from an exterior point
of view. Now surround it with a white light. See the whole building
surrounded by a brilliant white light. See the light as spiritual light, as love
and protection from the other side. End your session
Chapter 4 - Improving Contact with the Other Side

The Most Promising Frontier of All

• The role of mental imagery, affirmation, and prayer in stimulating
healing.

• Why the daydreams of scientific giants like Einstein yielded

scientific breakthroughs.

• The nature of well-documented special capabilities in some

people, such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition.

When we use the mind to contact the other side, we also get
results that are difficult, if not impossible, to explain with the
science that we know today. Science has made huge strides, but
we still have much to learn about this universe

Action Plans—Days 6—10

During the second five days, your morning “work gets easier. Your
noon relaxation gets more interesting. And your evening “doing”
becomes more productive and practical. In other words, your three
sessions per day over Days 6 through 10 will give you the feeling
that you are much closer to going to the alpha level, much closer to
activating your brain’s right hemisphere, and much closer to
successfully contacting the other side for help
 What to Do in the Morning—Days 6—10
Here is your morning action plan for the second five mornings:

1. On awakening, recline on the pillow.

2. Close your eyes, turn them slightly upward, and count

backward slowly from 50 to 1.

3. When you reach the count of 1, say to yourself, “Each time

I relax this way, I go deeper, faster.”

4. Then say, “Positive thoughts bring me all the benefits and

advantages I desire.”

5. End your session as before, counting from 1 to 5, stopping

at 3 to instruct yourself. “When I open my eyes at the count
5, I”II be wide awake, feeling great.” At count of 5 when
you open your eyes, say “I am wide awake, feeling great.”

So, the second five mornings differ from the first five in only
two ways: You count from 50 to 1 instead of from 100 to 1. And
you add a second statement while at the relaxed level,
reminding yourself how positive thinking creates benefits and
advantages. When you complete your 20 days of training, the
use of the Silva Method to get help from the other side is
simpler and faster than any of these exercises. It will take you
just seconds to go to alpha and program for a desired event to
take place. After all this practice, you will be able to go
instantly to the alpha level. You no longer need to count
backward from 100 during the second five days, instead
counting from 50, because you are gradually getting in control
of the alpha level.
 What to Do at Noon—Days 6—10
During the first five afternoons, you enjoyed the process of
visualization—“seeing” familiar things with the mind’s eye.

During the next five afternoons, you will enjoy the process of
imagination—“seeing” less familiar faces, things, places with the
mind’s eyes.

Visualization and imagination are important for clairvoyance. That

is why we will constantly be practicing these two aspects of
mental picturing.

Here is what to do:

Sit in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and
as you exhale relax your body.

Turn your eyes slightly upward and count backward from 50 to 1.

When you reach the count 1 do the imagination assignments

spelled out below for Days 6 through 10.

Then end your session as you do in the morning, counting up from

1 to 5, ending with “feeling wide awake and great.”
Day 6—After your countdown, imagine yourself in a beautiful
flower garden. “See” the beautiful blossoms. Smell the aroma. As
you examine one blossom, “see” a drop of water on it. Notice all
the colors of the rainbow in that drop of water. Count up to end the
session.

Day 7—After your countdown, imagine a still lake. It is so placid

that, as you stand on the edge and look down, you can see your
reflection in the water. Look at this reflection and say three words
to yourself: I love you. Count up to end the session.

Day 8—After your countdown, imagine yourself doing something

you have always wished you could do. Enjoy a daydream about
being a successful inventor or musician or actor or author, whatever
you have longed to do. See it happen. Feel the fun. Count up to end
the session.

Day 9—After your countdown, imagine that you are tasting your
favorite foods. Pick a favorite soup, a favorite meat, a favorite
salad, and a favorite dessert, or any four or five foods that you
really enjoy. With each imaginary taste, remember the flavor and
feel the pleasure of the taste as if it were real. Count up to end the
session.

Day 10—After your countdown, imagine that it is one hour later

than it is. “See” good things happening. Perhaps you make a new
friend or gain a new customer or associate. Perhaps you solve some
problem. Play a “mental movie” of this fortuitous imaginary event.
Count up to end the session. Then think it over. Is it possible?
 What to Do at Night—Evenings 6—10
During the next five nights, you will be paving the way for your
dreams to go to work for you. You will do your evening practice in
bed before going to sleep. Have a pen and paper under your pillow
or near your bed as part of your practice so you will be able to
record your dreams.

Here is the procedure:

After retiring, close your eyes, take a deep breath, turn your eyes
slightly upward, and count backward from 50 to 1.

When you reach the count of 1, take a deep breath and as you
exhale relax your body from head to toes.

Next, say to yourself mentally, “I want to remember a dream, and

I am going to remember a dream.”

Do not count up, feeling wide awake, as you usually do. Permit
yourself to fall asleep.

You will awaken at night or in the morning with a recollection of a

dream. Write the main theme down immediately.
For two nights, you will ask to remember just one dream. For
the following three nights, you will ask to remember more than
one dream; and it is hoped as you progress, that you will
remember all of your dreams.

Evenings 6 and 7—When you have counted down from 50 to 1,

relax your eyelids as before. Then say to yourself, “I want to
remember a dream, and I am going to remember a dream.” Go
to sleep. When you awaken, write down your dream.

Evenings 8, 9, and 10—Do as above, but this time say to

yourself, “I want to remember my dreams, and I am going to
remember my dreams,” Whenever you awaken during the night
or in the morning with a memory of a dream, write it down.

Should you be prone to nightmares and should one occur either

during this training period or afterward, when you awake in the
morning and do your countdown, at the alpha level mentally say
to yourself, “I had this nightmare. I don’t like it. I don’t want to
ever have it again. I will not ever have it again.” You are in
control. You can turn on wanted dreams and turn off unwanted
dreams.
 The Creative Channel
What would you be like if you said “yes” and became a better
creative channel? Do you know anybody who is?

One way to recognize such people is that they are warm and
caring. They have a quiet wisdom. They do what they like doing.
They inspire others. They find enjoyment in life.

Would you like to “see” yourself as you would be after you’ve said
yes to your fullest abilities? In a moment I will give you that
chance.

First, read these instructions:

1. Set a temporary priority. Which of the following is most

important to you right now? A) Abundance B) Love C) Health

2. Do the exercise below for the priority you have just selected.
Note that there is a section on love for singles and a separate
one for married readers

3. When you complete the exercise, open your eyes, read the
final section called “Loving Your World,” and then put the book
down again and practice that exercise
Chapter 5 - Helpful Hints About the Other Side

In our Silva Mind Control training course, each student is given a

precise methodology to produce an imaginary “counselor” to
help him or her solve problems while working at the creative
level.

Choosing Your Counselors

Trainees can pick their own counselors. It could be anybody now

living or passed on; it could be a relative, a friend, a person in
history or in religion; it could be an imaginary character. Once
you have completed your tenth day of exercises, you can create
counselors to assist you.

You will do this by going to your favorite place of relaxation and

inviting the people you wish to be your counselors to join you
there. From then on, anytime you wish to get help from your
counselors, go to the favorite place of relaxation used in your
exercises and your counselors will be waiting for you.

I recommend choosing both a male counselor and a female

counselor so that you get a broad range of help and advice.
 Creating Your Counselors
Create your male counselor first.

You can do so in a sitting position.

1. Close your eyes, turn them slightly upward, and count

backward from 50 to 1.

2. Deepen your relaxation with the short progressive relaxation

techniques.

3. Go mentally to your favorite place of relaxation.

4. Invite your male counselor to join you here. See him arrive.
Create him. Imagine he is there. Thank him for coming.

5. Every time you go to this peaceful place and ask for your
counselor’s help, he will be there. Always thank your counselor
sincerely when help is received. Thank him now for being
there.

6. End your session by counting up from 1 to 5, reminding

yourself before you start the count, at the count of 3, and again
when you reach 5 that when you open your eyes you will be
wide awake, feeling great.

After you complete your session, you can go right back down
again and create your female counselor by following the same
procedure.
 What to Do in the Morning—Days 11-15
During the third sequence of five days, your morning “work”
becomes still easier. Now you count backward from 25 to 1.
You will get just as deeply relaxed with this shorter countdown as
you did counting backward the first five days from 100 to 1 and the
second five days from 50 to 1, and probably even more so. Your body
and mind are learning to relax. You need less and less time to count
down. Since the countdown is the triggering factor, you will always
need a countdown, but on Mornings 16 to 20, you will use 5 to 1. You
will continue to use 5 to 1 after that. It will become your standard
method of entering alpha.

Your morning action plan for the third five morning (Days 11 – 15) is
the same as for the second five mornings (Days 6 – 10), except for
the reduced count.

To summarize:
1. Recline on your bed.
2. Close your eyes, turn them slightly upward, and count backward
slowly from 25 to 1.
3. Repeat: “Each time I relax this way, I go deeper, faster.”
4. “Positive thoughts bring me all the benefits and advantages I
desire.”
5. “One two, three…when I open eyes at the count of five, I’ll be
wide awake, feeling great!”
6. “Four, five.” Eyes open. “I am wide awake, feeling, great!” You
will be going deeper during these five days and doing so in less
time.
 What to Do at Noon—Days 11–15 .
Here is the procedure for the next five days at lunch:

Day 11—Collect all that you wrote about your dreams in the past five
days and make sure you have it all with you for your after-lunch
sessions. For this first noon session, go to your level with a 25 to 1
countdown, eyes turned upward slightly; when you reach the count
of 1, tell yourself mentally, “I am going to open my eyes and read
about my dreams. I will have perfect concentration and enhanced
awareness as I seek to detect some main element or theme that
might be contained in more than one dream.” You do not have to
count up to end the session, as you will drift out of alpha while
studying your notes. Write down the theme you identify.

Day 12—Go to your alpha level with the 25 to 1 countdown. Open

your eyes and pick out the dreams that come closest to having the
theme you identified yesterday. If you feel you are still too relaxed
when this is done, count up.

Day 13—Pick out a dream that you identified yesterday as having

the common theme. Reread it. Go to your alpha level with the 25 to 1
countdown. Go over the main features of the dream as if it were a
movie you are playing back. When it is over, keep it going. What
might happen next? End your session with the 1 to 5 count and write
down your additions to the dream and any new insights they bring.

Day 14—Read the insights you recorded the day before. Go to your
alpha level with the 25 to 1 countdown. Muse about these insights
regarding your behavior, attitudes, or emotions. What changes or
corrections are valid and possible for you to make? End your session
with the 1 to 5 count, and immediately list the changes you
contemplated at alpha.

Day 15—Read the changes you listed yesterday. Select one. Go to

alpha counting 25 to 1. See yourself with the unwanted trait you’ve
identified. Now do something to make it disappear. Wash it away.
Blow it away. Erase it. Now see yourself better than ever. End your
session.
 Action Plan—Evenings 11-15
Evening 11—Start in a chair, not in bed. Assume a comfortable
sitting position. Go to alpha, counting 25 to 1. Imagine that you
are inside your right leg. There is a large muscle there. Say hello to
your muscle lovingly like it is the dear friend that it is. Then say
authoritatively, “Release all tensions, ligament pressures, and
unneeded negative memories, and function in a normal, healthy
manner.” Next, “visit” your left leg. Now, the muscles in both
arms. Greet them lovingly and give them the same instructions.
Now visit your back muscles and abdominal muscles. Next, visit
the neck muscles. After instructing them, add “I call on all the rest
of the muscles, ligaments, and tissues in my body to release all
tensions, ligament pressures, and unneeded negative memories
and function in a normal, healthy manner.” End your session by
counting up from 1 to 5.

Evening 12—Do the same as last night, but this time visit your
heart, lungs, and liver, giving them each the same instructions.
Then visit your intestines, kidneys and reproductive area, giving
them each the same instructions. Finally add, “I call on all the rest
of the organs, glands, and systems in the body to release all
tensions, ligament pressures, and unneeded negative memories
and function in a normal, healthy manner.” End your session. By
the end of Evening 12, you will have freed your body of much of
the resistance to relaxation that has been invested in it. Now,
when you count down, you will indeed go deeper, faster.

Now let’s move on to the set of obstacles to right-brain

functioning that is stored in your mind.
 Here are your action plans for Evenings 13
through 15:
Evening 13—Seated in a comfortable chair, close your eyes,
turning them slightly upward, and count backward from 25 to 1.
When you reach the count of 1, mentally go to your favorite
place of relaxation. One by one, you will invite the people listed
below to join you; you will forgive them and ask to be forgiven
by them. Feel it happening. See it happening with a handshake
or hug. Do this with each, whether deceased or alive: Paternal
Grandfather Maternal Grandfather Paternal Grandmother
Maternal Grandmother Father Mother Spouse of love Sisters
Brothers Children End your session counting up from 1 to 5 in
the usual way.

Evening 14—This evening you will forgive all auxiliary members

of the family, but you will save time by choosing one male
cousin, for instance, to “stand in” for all your male cousins, one
uncle for all of your uncles, and so on. You will do the same for
several categories outside of your family: One uncle One in-law,
older generation One aunt One in-law, same generation One
nephew One in-law, younger generation One niece One male
cousin One female cousin One friend One neighbor One
business colleague One teacher

Evening 15—We have left an important person in your life for

last—yourself. You must love yourself before you can love
others. Invite yourself into your favorite place of relaxation as if
you were some other person. Forgive yourself for all
shortcomings you think you have, all mistakes you think you’ve
made, all unpleasant events you think you’ve caused. Hug
yourself. End the session by counting up.
Chapter 6 - Getting Answers from the Other Side
This chapter contains instruction for the final five days of “doing” in
order to be able to contact the other side. These last five day
complete the 20 days of self-training. If you have been
conscientious about your “doing” you will have acquired the ability
to slow your brain waves to the alpha frequency level by closing
your eyes, taking a deep breath, turning your eyes slightly upward,
and counting backward from 5 to 1. In other words, you will be able
to activate your right brain hemisphere in less time than it takes to
read this paragraph.

What to Do in the Morning—Days 16 through 18

1. On arising, sit in a comfortable chair.

2. Close your eyes, turn them slightly upward, take a deep breath,
and as you exhale relax your body completely.
3. Count slowly backward from 5 to 1.
4. Repeat these three statements to yourself mentally: “Every
time I relax this way I go deeper, faster.” “Positive thoughts
bring me all the benefits and advantages I desire.” Every day in
every way I get better, better, and better.”
5. End your session in the usual way, 1 to 5, wide awake and
feeling great. Read these five steps over once more. Then put
the book down and pretend that it is morning and you are just
waking up. Follow the five steps now.

Mornings 19 and 20—Do steps 1 through 4 as above, but before

coming out (step 5), play a “movie” of the day going perfectly. Let’s
have a script conference on that movie. Actually, you are both the
scriptwriter and the director. I am just a consultant. One way to
mentally “see” a day happening is to have a clock in the pi
Evenings 16 and 17—
Pick a different human problem each night. Sit in a
comfortable chair, close your eyes, and bow your head. Take
a deep breath and as you exhale, relax your body completely.
Count backward mentally from 5 to 1. Picture the person with
whom you have a problem. Express love or fondness for the
person. Identify your mutual problem. Explain your mutual
solution, what is right for the both of you. Feel a closeness to
the person as you end your session, counting upward from 1
to 5, feeling great. From now on, when you think of the
situation, think of it not as the problem it once was but as the
solution it is now becoming. In your final three evenings of
“doing” you will go to your level in bed when preparing to go
to sleep. Each night, you will use your alpha level for a
different personal benefit: getting rid of a persistent negative
attitude, helping to correct a health problem, and triggering
more of your mind to go work for you.
Evening 18—Getting rid of a persistent negative attitude. Select some
negative attitude you would like to change. Just before falling asleep,
go to level as you did last night. Identify the attitude that you have
selected. Admit that it is not wholesome or positive. Express your
desire to change it. State, “When I open my eyes at the count of 5, I
will no longer feel (negative feeling), and I will (positive feeling).” This
will be in place of your usual “aide awake” statement. Count slowly 1
to 3 and repeat this statement. Continue the count to 5, open your
eyes, and affirm, “I no longer feel (negative feeling), I feel (positive
feeling).” Examples of some negative feelings or attitudes and the
opposites to which you can transform them are: Resentment—
Acceptance; Jealously—Appreciation; Depression—Exhilaration;
Hopelessness—Hopefulness. Read these instructions again before
going to bed.

Evening 19 – Helping to correct a health problem. Select some minor

health problem that you wish to alleviate—skin disorder, acid
stomach, cough—something you have decided is too minor to
warrant a doctor’s help. Just before falling asleep, go to your level in
the usual way Imagine you are able to go inside our body. “Visit” the
problem area. Fix it up in your imagination. Let your final picture be of
the area in perfect condition. Go to sleep from level. Read these
instructions again before retiring.

Evening 20 – Triggering more of your mind to go to work for you. Just

before falling asleep, go to level as before. Put the thumb and first
two fingers of either hand together. Mentally say, “Whenever I put
these three fingers together, my mind functions at a deeper level of
awareness.” Repeat two more times. Fall asleep from level. Read
these instructions over three times before retiring. From the next
morning on, whenever you need to be more intelligent—while at a
meeting, making a decision, or speaking to an important person—put
our three fingers together.
Chapter 7 - What to Do Before You Ask for Help
When we ask for help in this left-brain physical world, we first must
decide which area of expertise is best able to provide that help. So, we
make appointment with a bank loan officer, or a health care specialist,
or a psychologist, or an attorney, or an architect, or an accountant,
according to our needs. The physical world is realm of divisions and
separations. That’s the way the left brain likes it to be because it thrives
on details.

When you ask for help from the other side, things are quite different.
You are using your right brain to contact the nonphysical world. Here
unity, oneness, and togetherness are the order of the day. So, there is
only one source for that help, although it may come through various
physical channels. Asking, too, is simpler. You might say the process is
automatic. Help comes. And there will be no bill in the morning mail for
you to pay.

Here are few things you can do right now to live more positively:

1. Identify one or more unwanted, negative characteristics in your

thoughts, attitudes, or behavior. List them on a piece of paper. In a
parallel column, list opposite thoughts, attitudes, or behavior—he
way you want to be.

2. Take the first negative characteristic and program it away. Relax and
count down to your level the way you have been doing. Admit your
problem. Assert the solution. Count up, reasserting the solution
halfway up (at the count of 3) and claiming it when you open your
eyes (at the count 5).

3. .Every day take another characteristic on your list and correct it

from negative to positive. When you reach the bottom of the list,
reinforce by repeating where necessary. Millions have benefited
from this negative-to-positive programming. It cannot fail. It is
based on a solid foundation of truth.
 Opening Up to Abundance
Try to open the door to abundance by yourself. If it’s stuck,
help will come from the other side. How will the other side
open the door? There are a number of possibilities, but not
all will apply to you.

Here are some factors that stem your tide of abundance.

1. What you are creating is not needed.

2. What you are creating, you are not creating enough of.

3. You are not being creative.

4. You think you are not being creative.

5. You think what you create has no value.

 The Five Affirmations
When you open these doors, help from the other side can and will
come to you, as surely as this book will fall if you let it go. Once
you open these doors, your seeds of creativity can grow and
flourish. You plant them, you nurture them, you enjoy their fruits.

Turning from symbols to action, you “see” your goal at alpha;

ideas, people, and solutions show up with suddenness and
certainty; you reach your goal and achieve satisfaction.

Now make five affirmations about what you have created:

1. What I create is needed.

2. I create in the quantity needed.

3. I am endowed with creativity.

4. I know how to create.

5. What I create is of universal value.

You will then end your session by counting up from 1 to 5, feeling

great and knowing that the floodgates are open and creativity will
flow.
Here are the steps again in more specific detail.
1. Sit in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, turn them slightly
upward, take a deep breath, and as you exhale, relax your body
completely.

2. Count backward slowly from 5 to 1, seeing each number on a

door and opening the door before proceeding to the next
number.

3. Picture yourself going through an open door to a big garden

plot. Know that this is the garden of “MY PERSONAL
CREATIVITY.”

4. Decide what you want to create in your life. Step into the
center of the garden and scatter the seeds for this creation.

5. See what you want to create growing in the garden.

6. Make the five affirmations: (NQCHV) needed, quantity,

creativity, how, and value.

7. End your session counting up 1 to 5, feeling wide awake, even

better than before.

Now is a great time to do this exercise. Read over the instructions

and memorize the five affirmations. Put the book down and open
the doors.
Chapter 8 - How to Get Help Solving People Problems
Using Subjective Communication

I am now in communication with you objectively. My left brain is

involved in putting the words on paper. Your left brain is involved in
opening the book and reading the words.
The objective ways of communicating that we use every day follow
physical pathways—through the conscious senses. The subjective
methods of communication that we are now learning to use follow
nonphysical pathways and transcend the conscious mind.

Subjective communication travels on the other side. In fact, on the

other side it has no distance to travel. Its realm is where there is no
space and where we are all joined together.

The route it takes is something like this : the sender’s conscious

mind to the sender’s super-conscious mind to the receiver’s
superconscious mind to the receiver’s conscious mind.
Let’s look at these pathways in more detail:

Sender’s conscious mind. You think of the problem and realize

that objective means are not working, so you decide to use
subjective means.

To sender’s superconscious mind. You relax, take a deep breath,

turn your eyes slightly upward, and count backward from 5 to 1.
Your right brain is now activated—it is the access to your
superconscious mind.

To receiver’s superconscious mind. You picture the receiver.

Immediately, your brain neurons are in touch with the receiver’s
brain neurons, also at the right-brain level. Your superconscious
and the receiver’s superconscious are connected and are part of
the oneness of the other side! As long as your communication is
loving and poses mutual solutions and advantages, you maintain
that connection and the message gets through.

To receiver’s conscious mind. The receiver gets the message as if

he or she got an idea. It drifts into the conscious like any other
self-generated idea. He or she moves closer to an agreement
with you. This can work with more than one person. If there are
two, they are joined as one at the superconscious level.
 Here are the steps:
1. Sit in a comfortable chair, close your eyes and turn them slightly
upward, take a deep breath, and as you exhale relax your body
completely.

2. 2. Visualize the group you wish to communicate with.

3. 3. Greet them lovingly.

4. 4. Talk to them mentally about the situation you wish to resolve.

Propose a resolution that is as advantageous to them as it is to
you.

5. 5. End your session in the usual way, counting 1 to 5, feeling

great and wide awake.

Using Subjective Communication to Solve World Problems At the

present writing, Silva Method graduates are being asked through a
newsletter to go to their alpha level each evening and program for
the following:
• More and more doctors taking part in working side by side with
spiritual healers.
• More school using Silva Method as regular part of the educational
program.
• Lasting peace in Central America.
• Plenty of food for the starving people of the world.

This is only a sampling of the kinds of world problems Silva

graduates are encouraged to work on. Many of these problems have
long since diminished in severity or disappeared altogether.
How do you mentally picture at your alpha level all the people of
your community?

Imagine that they have assembled at the high school athletic

grounds. Or examine a street map, then recall the street map when
you’re at alpha level, animated with people. Or let a few of your
neighbors whom you can visualize “stand in” for all of the
community.

These approaches enable you to subjectively communicate your

message in such situations as:

1. Winning more votes in an election.

2. Selling more of a product or service.
3. Cooling a controversy that has been heating up.
4. Graining support for a charity drive.
5. Facilitating signatures on a petition.

It is also useful to remember the world problems such as those

graduates are asked to assist with and those you used to practice
with in the final group of five noon exercises. Unfortunately, this
planet of ours has many such problems, due to the eccentricity of
humankind’s thinking. You can always find problems to help with
having to do with poverty, illness, hunger, and war. Remember the
two rules: Communicate lovingly. Be in favor not of who is right,
but what is right. U
You have already practiced subjective communication in your
exercises for Evenings 16 and 17. You might want to review the
instructions for those evenings and recall the events immediately
following your five experiences with it.

When results are not seen immediately, give the situation more
time. If you still get no results, repeat our subjective
communication; being sure to follow the two rules
—communicate lovingly and favor what is right.

If there are still no results, check for one or more of the following
blocks:

1. You are not deeply relaxed enough.

2. You are not picturing the person.

3. You do not expect results.

4. You do not really love that person.

5. Your proposal is not of mutual advantage and is posing a

problem to the person.
 Here are the antidotes for these blocks:
1. Use one or more deepening techniques, such as counting
backward from 25 to 1. Using progressive relaxation to relax
every part of our body, and/or visualizing your favorite place
of relaxation for a few moments.

2. 2. We frequently have difficulty picturing somebody whose

face we see often—we take it for granted. Next time you see
this person, carefully observe their features, hair, contours,
and skin color so that these details will be more easily
recalled. Or study a photograph of the person.

3. 3. Skepticism always works. It is a red light; it tells your brain

to ignore what you are doing because it is useless. Your
consciousness obeys you. Expectation always works. It gives
your brain a green light. Just think what skepticism is costing
you as others succeed and you are left behind.

4. 4. If there have been hard feelings between you and this

person, it is difficult to obey the first rule, that is, to feel love
for the person. To go from hostility to love, you must pass
through another stage: forgiveness. Go to your alpha level
and invite this person into your peaceful place; forgive this
person and ask to be forgiven.

5. 5. There is no doubt that the change you are seeking is

advantageous to you, but is it really advantageous to the
other person, too? If not, you are causing a problem for that
person and it will not work. Review your proposal and revise it
if necessary so it more fully reflects what is right for both of
you.
Chapter 9 - Help from the Other Side for
Health Problems
Fifteen Minutes a Day
We take stress for granted; it is part of our way of life. We need
time to get where we are going, and to do what needs to be done.
Time is not elastic; there is always the threat of there not being
enough time. Spell that threat s-t-r-e-s-s.

The Three-Fingers Technique to Prevent Stress

Every stressful situation carries negative programming with it.

Fifteen minutes a day at alpha is good general protection.

You have already programmed the Three-Fingers Technique to

work for you. So now you need to add to your Three-Fingers
Technique programming the phrase “… and I remain calm, cool,
and in control.”
Here is how:
1. Sit in a comfortable chair and go to your alpha level in the usual
way.
2. 2. Deepen your level with a countdown or by enjoying your
favorite place of relaxation, or both.
3. 3. Put your thumb and first two fingers of either hand together
and repeat mentally three times, “Every time I put these three
fingers together, my mind functions at a deeper level of
awareness and I remain calm, cool, and in control.
4. 4. End your session in the usual way. Of course, you should not
wait for a stressful occurrence to do this programming. You do
it now. You are then prepared for stressful eventualities.
 How to Get Rid of Headaches
One of nature’s most gentle warning signals that you are under
stress is a headache. Headaches can be severe and cause great
suffering, but they are often easy to get rid of if you use some
positive programming.

Try the following:

1. Go to your level and put your three fingers together.
2. Tell yourself that when you open your eyes at the count of 3,
you will read the instructions for ending headaches, you will
have perfect concentration, noises will not disturb you but will
help you to relax even more, and you will remember these
instructions anytime you need them in the future by putting
your three finger together.
3. Count to 3, open your eyes, and read the next steps. Do it now.
4. If you have a tension-type headache, enter your alpha level.
Mentally tell yourself, “I have headache, I feel a headache, I
don’t want to have a headache, I don’t want to feel a headache.
I am going to count from 1 to 5, and at the count of 5, I will open
my eyes, be wide awake, feeling fine and in perfect health. I will
then have no headache; I will then feel no headache.”
5. You will then count slowly from 1 to 3, and at the count of 3, you
will remind yourself mentally, “At the count 5, I will open my
eyes, be wide awake, feeling fine and in perfect health. I will
then have no discomfort in my head; I will then feel no
discomfort in head.” Notice that we have made a change at
count of 3, from ache to discomfort; we left the ache behind.
6. You will then proceed to finish counting slowly to 5, and at the
count of 5, and with your eyes open, you will say to yourself
mentally, “I am wide awake, feeling fine and in perfect health. I
have no discomfort in my head; I feel no discomfort in my head.
And this is so.” And the headache will instantly disappear.
Remember, the mind runs the body.
Chapter - 10 Help from the Other Side for
Business Success
You have to reprogram.
We have an extremely successful formula-type technique in the
Silva Method called the Mirror of the Mind. The Mirror of the Mind
reduces the three-picture method of programming to two pictures
but adds a new feature. The feature is an imaginary mirror. When
you go to your alpha level and picture this mirror, you can make it
as small or as large as you want so that it can encompass a person
or persons, a small scene or a large scene. This mirror has a frame
around it that can change color— from dark blue to brilliant white
The blue-framed mirror is used to identify the problem. The white-
framed mirror is used to see the problem solved or the goal
reached.

Here is the step-by-step procedure:

1. Go to alpha level in the usual way.

2. Imagine that you see the problem in the blue-framed mirror.
Make a brief study of it.
3. Erase the problem image, move the mirror slightly to the left,
and change the frame to white.
4. Imagine you see the problem solved, or the goal reached, in
the white-framed mirror.
5. End your session in the usual way.
6. Whenever you think of the project from here on, see it as the
solution famed in white.
We all have untapped potential awaiting
discovery.
The Silva Method helps it to surface. Here are several positive
steps you can take now to accelerate that discovery and, in turn,
accelerate your business success.

1. Do the self-forgiveness exercise again. Invite yourself into

your peaceful place as you did before. Forgive yourself for all
mistakes and apparent shortcomings.

2. Do as many of the “good guy” activities recommended in

Chapter VII as possible. When you help others, you help
yourself. You increase you feeling of deservedness.

3. Use the Mirror of the Mind. See yourself in the blue framed as
you are now, not “making it.” Erase the image. Move the
mirror slightly to the left, change the frame to white, and see
yourself as a successful business genius. From then on,
whenever you are impatient or concerned see yourself as the
epitome of success, framed in white.

4. Go to your alpha level daily and give yourself a positive

affirmation, custom-built for your own situation, or use Silva’s
universally applicable one: “Every day in every way, I’m
getting, better, better, and better
Chapter 11 - Help from the Other Side for Life’s
More Difficult Problems

Coping with Fear

The loss of a dear one can make life seem so bleak and the world
seem so empty. Yet a year afterward, the grief is long gone, and
a colorful life has returned. Not so with fear. While time may
dissipate grief, it can strengthen fear. Life offers us an abundant
choice of fears and phobias. Generally speaking, we all have the
choice to be afraid of poverty, failure, loneliness, insecurity,
prejudice, authority, and so on. More specifically, we can
develop a gnawing fear of flying, of elevators, of closed spaces,
of insects, of dirt, of the dark, of speaking in public, of high
places, of dogs. More than a hundred common phobias have
been identified and given scientific names. Fear stifles joy.
Anything that deprives us of joy in life is s serious problem.

There are three steps needed to dissipate fears and phobias:

1. Admit to it.

2. Understand it.

3. Reprogram.
Let’s look at each of these steps in turn.
1. We tend to wallow in fear as if it were not merely a fear but a valid
threat. Relax and confront these so-called valid threats and give them
a name. Admit to being afraid (of cockroaches, of prejudice, of
meeting new people—whatever).

2. Understanding your fear is best accomplished by digging out the

cause. You can be your own psychoanalyst by going to your alpha level
and asking yourself what is the cause of these negative thoughts. Let
your mind wander wherever it will. It may take you back to when Uncle
Eddie dunked you in the pool as a child. You thought you were
drowning, but Uncle Eddie was just teaching you to swim. And you’ve
been afraid of the water ever since.

3. With understanding, the reprogramming has already begun. In the

above example, your right brain responds to your new understanding
by saying, “We’ve got this misfiled. Switch it from survival to
memory.” Now you are ready to substitute new behavior for the old
with positive, affirmative programming. Go to your alpha level and
give yourself new instructions.
Some of these new instructions are suggested below.

Maybe you can use one directly or adapt it for your particular
situation.

Fear of Meeting New People. “It is fun to meet people. I gain by

meeting them. I am thoroughly relaxed when I meet new people.”

Fear of Elevators. “I know elevators are safe. I use them

confidently.”

Fear of High Places. “I concentrate on the sound-ness and stability

of where I am standing. The height expands my horizons and
lengthens my view. I find it interesting. I am comfortable.”

Fear of Insects and Rodents. “Insects and rodents fear me. I have
nothing to fear from them.”

Fear of Poverty. “I am surrounded by people who care. I will

always have the necessities of life. I have an invisible means of
support.”

Say your affirmation three times while at the alpha level, and do
so once a day until you no longer have the problem. If you must
custom-build your own affirmation, follow these three simple
rules:
1. The instructions you give yourself should be positive.
2. State a fact that belies the fear of contradicts its validity in
some way.
3. Assert your relaxed confidence. Check the examples given
above to see how these three rules have been applied. This will
help you to construct an affirmation on target for your fear or
phobia, and it will disappear.
Without fear, life has a new and beautiful face
Solving Serious Health Problems
Nothing said about healing in this book is intended to be a
substitute for professional help. Silva graduates merely use
alpha to help their physicians to help them; they do not work on
themselves without professional health care supervision.
Doctors welcome this assistance by the patient. It is common
knowledge that a close rapport between doctor and patient is
not only a factor in the accuracy of the diagnosis, but also a
catalyst boosting the effectiveness of the medications
prescribed. Doctors and the medications they prescribe depend
for their success on the healing power of the patient. With the
Silva Method, you become more in tune with the source of life—
the creative power— so that healing is accelerated. Many a
physician working with a Silva graduate has thrown his hands up
in disbelief…there are no signs of illness; a tumor has shrunk or
disappeared; an operation is no longer indicated.

Healing Help for Yourself and Others

The basic Silva procedure for healing yourself or helping to heal

another person of a serious illness is as follow:
1. Go to your laboratory level, greet your counselors, and say a
welcome prayer.
2. Put yourself or the ill person on your laboratory screen and
direct your attention to the problem area.
3. Do whatever comes to mind to correct the problem-erase a
dark spot, crush a stone, shrink a tumor, sew up wound,
encourage the immune system, and so on.
4. See the problem gone. See in its place perfect health.
5. Thank your counselors, say a farewell prayer with them, and
count up.
Chapter 12 -Your On-Going Partnership with the
Other Side

Three Steps to Keeping Life Beautiful

The prophet Jesus said, “Seek the kingdom first, function within
God’s righteousness, and everything else will be added unto you.”
The kingdom that this prophet meant was not a kingdom to be
entered after we die, but one to be entered right here on earth—
the kingdom within. To function within God’s righteousness while
in the kingdom within is to perceive creatively and positively. Then
the results are automatic.

Translating this into the Silva Method, we get the three simple
steps with which you are now quite familiar:
1. Close your eyes and relax your body and mind.
2. Identify the problem. Move it slightly to the left and see a
corrective factor at work.
3. Move the picture again slightly to the left and see the solution
accomplished.

As you correct problems in the spiritual, invisible world of the mind,

the effects appear in the physical, visible world of the body just as
surely as effect follows cause. Let us imagine the perfect situation:
Everybody on this planet had developed the faculties of
visualization and imagination to the fullest and had been practicing
them for two thousand years. Due to the enhancement of the
spiritual factor, relations between neighboring families, cities,
countries, states, and nations are excellent. When faced with a
difficult problem, neighboring families, cities, counties, states, and
nations cooperate with each other until a solution is found. When
this type of cooperation exists, stress, anxiety, and tension are
totally eliminated
Eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent. Yes,
we resemble our Creator.

We are divine.

Claim your divinity.

Follow your guidance.

Make decisions and act.

You have an invisible means of support.

The other side and this side are on the same

side
Chapter 13 - Bonus Chapter
Guided Imagery

Listen to the music.

Hear the slow countdown from 100.

This guided imagery session can be used to

help you on your way to develop the Silva
Mind Method for Getting Help From the
Other Side.

Look for more books by Jose Silva and

Robert B. Stone narrated by Joe Nuckols
from Nightingale Conant, the World Leader
in Personal Development.