Silva Method and the Ultimate Mind

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From Medical News Today, a simple 10 steps guide to health and happiness in 2010. Read on:

1) It’s Easy Being Green Whether you are a vegetarian, vegan, carnivore or pescetarian, vegetables should be a central part of your diet. Often referred to as a “protective food,” dark green foods provide essential vitamins and nutrients to your body that protect you from many of life’s worst diseases.

The Food and Drug Administration recommends three to five servings a day for pristine health. This is not as hard to accomplish as it sounds. Examples of one serving include: two broccoli spears, three tablespoons of green beans or three sticks of celery.

2) Get on Your Feet

If you’re a biker or a swimmer, you may need to add an additional element to your workout regime. Dr. Warren Levy, Ph. D., of Unigene Laboratories reminds people that, “when it comes to the risk of thinning bones, it’s the weight bearing nature of exercise that signals bones to create more mass. Without such stress, bones do not get stronger, and become more prone to injury.”

There is still a lot to learn about bone health, but in the meantime, it is important for both men and women to partake in exercises that get you up on your feet. This is a fact. If you’re a biker or a swimmer, squeeze in some walking or a run a couple of times a week.

Read about all 10 steps here

(Via Medical News Today.)

Jim Rohn is the one that turned me on real estate investing. In one of his powerful speeches, he said “If you can afford it, buy two bicycles, ride one and rent the other.” That was the start of my career in business. I got it.

Jim Rohn passed away last December 5, 2009, and his website provides a great tribute to this legend. Go ahead and read all that you can be.

Jim Rohn, America’s Foremost Business Philosopher

(Via Seeds of Success, Success Magazine.)

This is yet another study showing that meditation, whether TM, the Silva Method or any meditation technique helps reduce blood pressure and stress. It still is of utmost importance that we take at least 30 minutes for ourselves to relax our mind and tune in to our body.

Here’s the article from Medical News Today:

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The first randomised controlled trial to demonstrate that a mental technique can reduce blood pressure in at-risk university students - through improving psychological health - was published on Wednesday in the American Journal of Hypertension (A Randomized Controlled Trial on Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Blood Pressure, Psychological Distress, and Coping in Young Adults. Am J Hypertens 2009 Dec.) See . See also summary below.

Earlier this week, another paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association revealed that Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi helped heart disease patients lower risks of heart attack, stroke, and death by nearly 50 percent: ; and it was announced that the US National Institutes of Health are awarding another US$1m for research on Transcendental Meditation and cardiovascular disease.

These three recent press releases follow strong endorsements by John Hopkins University of the benefit of this mental technique for cardiovascular health .

Read more here

Is it true that when we drive, walk or reach for something our brain performs calculations? Is this ability learned or innate?
—Helena Larks, San Francisco

Computational neuroscientist Terry Sejnowski of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego, answers:

Our brain is wired to perform calculations that let us judge how far away an object is when we walk or jump around or reach for a container of milk. Although this task may seem easy, it turns out that calculating depth is surprisingly complex.

When we look at an object, our eyes project the three-dimensional structure onto a two-dimensional retina. To see the three dimensions, our brain must reconstruct the three-dimensional world from our two-dimensional retinal images. We have learned to judge depth using a variety of visual cues, some involving just one eye (monocular vision) and others involving both eyes (binocular vision).

Read more here about subconscious calculations.

(Via Scientific American.)

You may hurt the ones you love but ‘forgive and forget’ is much more likely apply in intimate relationships than it is to your friends, according to research results from The Australian National University, being released as part of National Psychology Week.

The study by Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate Jodie Burchell, suggests that although the people that are closest to you have the greatest capacity to hurt your feelings, over time people feel less hurt from events occurring in an intimate relationship than they do from those involving close friends.

Read more here

(Via Medical News Today.)

Living with pain is stressful, but a surprisingly short investment of time in mental training can help you cope.

A new study examining the perception of pain and the effects of various mental training techniques has found that relatively short and simple mindfulness meditation training can have a significant positive effect on pain management.

Though pain research during the past decade has shown that extensive meditation training can have a positive effect in reducing a person’s awareness and sensitivity to pain, the effort, time commitment, and financial obligations required has made the treatment not practical for many patients. Now, a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte shows that a single hour of training spread out over a three day period can produce the same kind of analgesic effect.

The research appears in an article … Continue here for the rest of this article

(Via The Medical News)

Barbara Ehrenreich presented her new book Bright-Sided on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. She talked about the subtitle of this book, “How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America”. Ms. Ehrenreich explained that she became disillusioned by the mantras of positive thinkers around her while she was fighting breast cancer. She further believes that all of our troubles today in the financial and job markets exist because people were and are still using positive thinking in order to make believe that all is fine and dandy.

She became skeptic about the whole process and saw only a grain of sand in the realm of possibilities. Ms. Ehrenreich probably never heard of the verified and tested results that Dr. Carl Simonton has had from using the Silva Method and mind techniques to cure people from cancer as a reputed oncologist. It is a proven fact that scientists and doctors now acknowledge what we’ve known for years using the Silva Method. And it’s not coming just from doctors that use and teach the Silva Method techniques like Drs. Laszlo Domjan, Rosa Rivas or Aretoulla Fullam.

What’s true though is that we, practitioners and instructors of the Silva Method, don’t advertise enough the results that are produced by using the Silva Method techniques in our daily lives whether it is for health, business or personal benefits. But these results do exist and they are not delusions in any way.

I am posting this clip because it is important to know what some people, like Ms. Ehrenreich, will write or do to present their limited and subjective picture of their encounters with mind techniques.

In conclusion, I disclose that conforming to the new FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, FTC 16 C.F.R. Part 255, I am not receiving a penny from Ms. Ehrenreich for posting this opinion.

Overweight women’s self-esteem plummets when they view photographs of models of any size, according to a new study in Journal of Consumer Research. And underweight women’s esteem increases, regardless of models’ size.

Authors Dirk Smeesters (Erasmus University, the Netherlands), Thomas Mussweiler (University of Cologne, Germany), and Naomi Mandel (Arizona State University) researched the ways individuals with different body mass indexes (BMIs) felt when they were exposed to thin or heavy media models.

“Our research confirms earlier research that found that normal body mass index (BMI) females’ self-esteem can shift upwards or downwards depending on the model they are exposed to,” the authors write. “Normal BMI females (with BMIs between 18.5 and 25) have higher levels of self-esteem when exposed to moderately thin models (because they feel similar to these models) and extremely heavy models (because they feel dissimilar to these models). However, they have lower levels of self-esteem when exposed to moderately heavy models (because they feel similar) and extremely thin models (because they feel dissimilar).”

Read more about Self-Esteem here

(Via Medical News Today.)

ScienceDaily (Oct.11, 2009)

When it comes to religion, believers and nonbelievers appear to think very differently. But at the level of the brain, is believing in God different from believing that the sun is a star or that 4 is an even number?

While religious faith remains one of the most significant features of human life, little is known about its relationship to ordinary belief. Nor is it known whether religious believers differ from nonbelievers in how they evaluate statements of fact.

In the first neuro-imaging study to systematically compare religious faith with ordinary cognition, UCLA and University of Southern California researchers have found that while the human brain responds very differently to religious and nonreligious propositions, the process of believing or disbelieving a statement, whether religious or not, seems to be governed by the same areas in the brain.
The study also found that devout Christians and nonbelievers use the same brain regions to judge the truth of religious and nonreligious propositions. The results, the study authors say, represent a critical advance in the psychology of religion. The paper appears Sept. 30 in the journal PLoS One.

Read more about this article here

(Via ScienceDaily.)