Silva Method and the Ultimate Mind

For many who live in this posteconomic-calm world with all its personal, family, and work demands, all its uncertainties, the notion of living a stress-free life might sound like a fantasy. Dream on, you may say.

But what if it’s the hyper-stressed world itself that’s the dream? What if in the middle of all the demands there’s a living reality called Peace – a God-created calm and unbroken harmony? Nobody has to make it happen, carve it out, or vacation in it; this state of peace simply is, and is all there is. It is, in fact, what God creates life to be – a spiritual life that Christian Science reveals and makes reachable.

Pause to consider that possibility, and what discovering this holy calm and living in it would mean for your life and the lives of those you love. What it would mean for your health. What it might do to calm the world’s social, political, and economic waters.

Getting to calm starts with getting to know God, with discovering who we are as God’s spiritual creation, and learning how we all relate to one another. The Bible records humanity’s search along these lines and shows how more inspired ideas of Creator and creation progressively resulted in greater calm, wholeness, and health.

When the Bible is viewed through the lens of inspiration, God is seen to be wholly good, and never the creator of evil; as Life and never the author of conflict and death; as the Lawgiver or divine Principle, but never a condemning judge; and certainly as Love, the fathering and mothering Love that calms and heals, that can change storm to stillness in an instant.

Read the entire article here Be stress free

(Via The Christian Science Monitor.)

Blog Note: The opinions in this article do not necessarily reflect mine, but I know that many readers will enjoy learning from this article how to be stress-free today.

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USATODAY — Economic stress is taking its toll on the USA’s emotional and physical health, new survey data show: More than half of Americans report irritability or anger, fatigue and sleeplessness, and almost half say they self-medicate by overeating or indulging in unhealthy foods.

Money and the economy topped the list of stressors for at least 80% of those surveyed by the American Psychological Association, which releases its numbers today. Finances now overshadow the more typical daily stressors of work and relationships; 46% report being worried about providing for their family’s basic needs.

Read more here Health takes a hit as economy creates more stress

(Via USAToday.)

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Wait a second. The start of next year will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone’s control. Time will stand still for one second on New Year’s Eve, as we ring in the New Year on that Wednesday night. As a result, you’ll have an extra second to celebrate because a “Leap Second” will be added to 2008 to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks.

By international agreement, the world’s timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world’s irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.

The extra second, ordered by the world’s nominal timekeeper, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, will be marked officially at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday in Greenwich, England, the home of what is popularly known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) – Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to the more technically inclined – the standard time for the planet.

So at precisely 23:59:60 at Greenwich, England, on New Year’s Eve, there will be a one-second void before the onset of midnight and the start of the New Year. Wednesday will see the 24th Leap Second that has been needed since the practice was initiated in 1972, and will be the first in three years.

Read the rest of the article here 2009 to Arrive Not a Second Too Soon

(Via LiveScience.)

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It’s been a hard year, a scary year, but we’ll all be OK, won’t we?

Of course we will. In the face of a sliding economy, lost jobs, vanishing retirement and checkbooks in the red, everyone just keeps on going. In fact, we keep on smiling.

Are we idiots deceiving ourselves? Or are humans a naturally hopeful species?

Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers of Rutgers University feels that humans are constantly deceiving themselves, but that self-deception is a good thing.

According to Trivers, all creatures have the ability to deceive others, and they have to. For example, insects change color to camouflage themselves against a background so that birds won’t swoop down and eat them; fish sport odd appendages to bait their prey; mother birds act like cripples and lure predators away from the nest; chimpanzees cover their submissive grins to hide the fact that they are scared and avoid a beating from higher ups.

Deception is, in fact, a strong selective force. Richard Byrne and Nadia Corp of the University of Saint Andrews, in Scotland, have discovered that there is a relationship between the ability to be deceptive and brain size; lemurs, monkeys and apes that socially manipulate others by being deceptive have larger neocortexes, the part of the brain associated with perception and conscious thought.

Read the entire article here Why Our Outlook for 2009 Is Sunny

(Via LiveScience.)

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 26, 2008) — Dollar signs for eyes – cartoonists have been drawing them for years, and the artists, while whimsical, may have been onto something. According to new research from UC San Diego, areas of the brain responsible for vision respond more strongly to objects of value.

Led by John Serences, assistant professor of psychology and head of the Perception and Cognition Lab at UC San Diego, the study is published in the Dec. 26 issue of the Cell Press journal Neuron.

Past rewards influence how humans (and other animals) make decisions. We’ve known about that for a long time, said Serences – through day-to-day experience as well as the numerous experiments of economists and cognitive psychologists. Though more and more research is looking into it, little is known about how rewards affect the way the brain processes incoming sensory information, specifically as it relates to vision. Could it be that we see things differently if they have paid off before?

Serences examined how value affects visual processing with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a brain-scanning technique that indirectly measures neural activity. The brain activity of subjects was recorded as they chose between red and green targets that varied in value across the experiment.

Visual Areas Of Brain Respond More To Valuable Objects, Brain-imaging Shows

(Via ScienceDaily.)

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What makes us feel spiritual? It could be the quieting of a small area in our brains, a new study suggests.

The area in question — the right parietal lobe — is responsible for defining “Me,” said researcher Brick Johnstone of Missouri University. It generates self-criticism, he said, and guides us through physical and social terrains by constantly updating our self-knowledge: my hand, my cocktail, my witty conversation skills, my new love interest …

People with less active Me-Definers are more likely to lead spiritual lives, reports the study in the current issue of the journal Zygon.

Most previous research on neuro-spirituality has been based on brain scans of actively practicing adherents (i.e. meditating monks, praying nuns) and has resulted in broad and inconclusive findings. (Is the brain area lighting up in response to verse or spiritual experience?)

Read the entire article here Spirituality Spot Found in Brain

(Via LiveScience.)

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Still unsuccessful at using the simple and easy Silva Method’s way to awake in the morning without an alarm clock? The UK branch of Mensa, the High IQ Society and club, created the Mensa Puzzle Alarm Clock. With it, it is guaranteed that you’ll wake up and within a short period of time, your brains will adapt, and you will not need a clock anymore.

The distributor of this clock writes:

“When the Mensa Alarm goes off, you will need to memorize and repeat a random sequence of colored lights. Get it wrong and the alarm restarts, louder than before. Take too long and it restarts.

Now you might notice the ‘wimp out’ button on the top right, which you can press but you’ll face 30 seconds of an extra loud alarm as payback.”

Now the choice is truly yours. Learn to use the Silva Method techniques to awake at the desired time, and become yourself a genius by using more of your brains. Or, feel like a moron with the Mensa Puzzle Alarm Clock.

For me, the choice was made a while back and ever since, I wake up at the time I decide in my mind.

Find out more about this clock here: Mensa Puzzle Alarm Clock Takes a Genius to Turn It Off

In the meantime, I wish you a better and better day,

Jay Feuillet

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Laura Silva, President of Silva International, wishes us all her 2008 Holiday Greetings.

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In its annual list of the year’s top ten scientific breakthroughs, the journal Science has given top honors to research that produced “made-to-order” cell lines by reprogramming cells from ill patients. These cell lines, and the techniques for producing them, offer long-sought tools for understanding — and hopefully someday curing — difficult-to-study diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and type 1 diabetes.

Science and its publisher, AAAS, the nonprofit science society, now salute cellular reprogramming as the Breakthrough of the Year and recognize nine more of the year’s most significant scientific accomplishments. The top ten list appears in a special feature in the journal’s 19 December 2008 issue.

“When Science’s writers and editors set out to pick this year’s biggest advances, we looked for research that answers major questions about how the universe works and that paves the way for future discoveries. Our top choice, cellular reprogramming, opened a new field of biology almost overnight and holds out hope of life-saving medical advances,” said deputy news editor Robert Coontz.

Two years ago, in experiments with mice, researchers showed that they could wipe out a cell’s developmental “memory” by inserting just four genes. Once returned to its pristine, embryonic state, the cell could then be coaxed to become an altogether different type of cell.

Read entire article here Science’s Breakthrough Of The Year: Cellular Reprogramming

(Via Science Daily.)

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At the request of a Silva graduate, I am presenting this Basic Lecture Series seminar next Saturday, December 27 2008 in her home in Boca Raton (Glades Rd & 441 area). She accepted to have graduates and new students join her family in this impromptu class to which you are invited.

The second day of training will be the following Saturday, January 3, 2009 at the same place.

It’s a great time to start the New Year with a clear mind. Since seating is limited, and because the class will be held in a gated community, you are required to register with me as soon as possible. Classes begin at 9:30 AM to end around 6:00 PM with an hour lunch break.

To participate to this class, you can register at
http://www.SilvaMethodFlorida.com/silva-method-register.html
or contact me by email to make financial arrangements.

In the meantime, I wish you and your family a great Holiday Season with peace and joy in your hearts.

Jay Feuillet

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