A Deep Dive into ”Applying the Silva Method: For Improved Intuition, Creativity and Focus” BOOK REVIEW PART 1

<p>“Once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” Jose Silva (August 11, 1914-February 7, 1999) author of <em>The Silva Mind Control Method.</em></p> <p><em></em></p> <p>Welcome back to <em>The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast</em> I’m Andrea Samadi and like many of you listening,  have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies to increase our results in our schools, sports, and modern workplaces.</p> <p>As we are in the midst of holiday season here with Thanksgiving this past week in the US, and Christmas fast approaching, we will be narrowing our focus here on the podcast and resuming interviews in the New Year.  Until then, this episode will launch a series where I’ll be taking us on a deep dive into the benefits of developing a meditation practice. While I’m sure those who tune into this podcast already have a practice in place, I wanted to cover a meditation method that I came across years ago, that our last interview, with Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram reminded me about.</p> <p>The goal of this series is to help all of us to reduce stress with this practice, but also to see if we can learn something new, and refine our practice for those who work in our schools to improve learning, in our sports environments for improved focus and concentration towards a specific goal, and in the corporate workplace for ideas to improve creativity and focus. We will begin this series reviewing Jose Silva and Philip Miele’s <em>The Silva Mind Control Method<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a></em> that’s based on the Revolutionary Program by the Founder of the World’s Most Famous Mind Control Course.</p> <p>Ch 1: Using Our Mind in Special Ways</p> <p>This course is something I came across while working in the seminar industry, and while interviewing Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram, on our last EPISODE #260<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>, he reminded me of Jose Silva’s program, that helped him with his self-esteem