Book summary “The Silva Mind Control Method”: summary

Introduction

Modern education and daily life force you to rely solely on the logical left brain, creating stress, tension, and limited potential. You ignore half of your mental capacity by operating almost exclusively in beta brain waves.

The Silva Mind Control Method teaches you to drop down to the ten-cycle Alpha brain wave frequency to integrate right-brain intuition with left-brain logic. You can harness latent creative and intuitive powers to solve everyday problems.

This summary covers brain wave frequencies, practical meditation techniques, subjective communication, and business applications.

You will discover answers to the following questions:

• How do you enter the Alpha state at will?
• What is the difference between objective and subjective processing?
• How can you use creative imagination for problem-solving?

1. Programming for Solutions

Education and modern society heavily favor logical left-hemisphere processes while neglecting right-hemisphere intuition and creativity. Dropping down to ten cycles per second bridges the conscious and unconscious mind to generate solutions.

Operating at the Alpha brain wave frequency balances both brain hemispheres, activating the intuitive right brain alongside the logical left brain.

The Alpha Brain State

The Three Fingers Technique allows managers to instantly recall knowledge and perceive information needed to solve routine problems. By programming the mind during sleep to associate the touching of the first three fingers of either hand with heightened sensitivity, a manager can trigger this state when encountering a routine problem.

You can establish this routine through nighttime programming:

• At night before falling asleep, close eyes, turn them slightly upward, and count down to level.
• Program that you will awaken automatically at the best time to program yourself to solve routine problems.
• Fall asleep from level.
• When you awaken automatically, again go to level.
• Put the tips of the first three fingers together of either hand.
• State mentally that bringing the fingers together turns on faculties to perceive information and immediately solve problems.
• Fall asleep from level.
• When a problem arises, place the three fingers together as you address its solution.

Routine and Special Problem Solving

Special problems involving future meetings can be resolved by preprogramming at Alpha and conducting a mental rehearsal of subjective communication. By combining the Three Fingers Technique with a private mental simulation where the manager discusses the issue with the key person, a harmonious solution can be achieved.

Fred S., a supermarket manager, used the method on a checkout clerk who was slowing down and hitting wrong keys, successfully improving the clerk's speed and accuracy.

Follow these steps for special problems:

• At night before sleeping, go to level using the countdown method and program to wake up for the special problem.
• When awake, return to level, put the first three fingers together, and identify the problem.
• State that you will have subjective communication with the key person before the meeting.
• Prior to the event, go to level in privacy and hold a scene discussing the problem in your imagination to see mutual understanding.
• At the event, put your three fingers together, confident of a harmonious solution.

Recurring behavioral problems with a specific individual can be combined with a neutral physical triggering device. By visualizing the problem person shifting from an undesirable habit to a positive state triggered by a routine action such as drinking coffee or water, the manager programs a new behavior.

Bette Taylor, QCC supervisor at Motorola, used a visualized light field around herself to calm angry workers who approached her, causing them to become positive and receptive when 20 percent of them were mad upon her arrival.

Once mastered through nighttime practice, managers can execute preprogrammed interventions during the day with their eyes open using a three-scene visualization. Without needing to enter the full level during the day, a manager can put their three fingers together, unfocus their eyes, and visualize three consecutive scenes shifting from the problem to a triggering action and finally to successful resolution.

Managers can generate creative business ideas by visualizing an expert consultant or industry leaders while at the Alpha level. By creating a mental copy of a top expert in the field during nighttime Alpha programming, asking questions, momentarily disconnecting, and waiting for the answer to pop up, the manager accesses right-brain creativity and industry expertise.

José Silva started his research into mental training in 1944, spending 22 years on research before developing the Silva Mind Method. Juan Silva used nighttime Alpha programming and physical lathe work to invent a complex multiple-priced mechanical vending machine that handled coin combinations before Mexico coined new denominations, achieving an increased production rate of 150 units a month at the vending machine factory and visualizing 478 employees symbolically in his common good programming.

2. Methodologies for Applying Subjective Skills

Up until recently, the objective dimension eclipsed the subjective dimension, which was labeled nonreal. Biofeedback equipment now measures physical changes caused by mental actions, proving the creative aspect of the subjective dimension. The Silva Method aims not to replace objective approaches, but to add subjective approaches.

Relying solely on objective left-brain approaches forces a manager to work with half their brain, while integrating subjective right-brain methods allows both halves to cooperate for faster and better results.

Twenty-five members of the management staff of RCA Records Division in New Jersey underwent Silva Method training administered by certified lecturer Eileen Buehler and evaluated by Dr. George DeSau. Twenty persons completed post-testing, with three-quarters showing significant personality improvements. Controlled testing using Cattell's 16 PF Personality Test on management staff before and after training demonstrated major positive shifts. Participants developed an increased ability to adjust to facts, direct emotional energies along integrated channels, and remain composed.

Overcoming Physical and Mental Blocks

Operating at ten cycles per second provides a normalizing harmony. When attempting to clear a headache at Alpha, one should avoid focusing specifically on the stressful problem that caused it, but instead let the mind roam on a broader scale, such as the progress of the week.

Tension headaches can be ended by entering the Alpha level of brain waves, which automatically disconnects the Beta-related cause of the discomfort.

Tom B., a computer programmer plagued by headaches due to personnel issues, failed to cure his headache while meditating at Alpha because he kept actively thinking about the specific frustrating problem. Once he broadened his thoughts to the week's overall progress, he successfully controlled his headaches.

To clear a tension headache, apply these steps:

• Close your eyes and turn them slightly upwards.
• Count backwards from 5 to 1.
• Remain with your eyes closed at the Alpha level for about three to five minutes while thinking broadly about projects or inventory.
• Count yourself up, reminding yourself that upon reaching 5 you will be wide awake and feeling better than before.

Sleep disorder clinics report high patient dependence on sleeping pills, which can lead to escalating dosages and drug-induced insomnia. Because deep sleep is Delta and wakefulness is Beta, passing through Alpha provides a natural, shorter trip to sleep. In 1976, Stanford University Sleep Disorder Clinic doctors reported that about forty percent of insomnia patients lost sleep because they were dependent on sleeping pills, and withdrawal allowed them to sleep twenty percent more.

Overcome sleeplessness naturally by using this sequence:

• Close your eyes and turn them slightly upward.
• Count backwards from 5 to 1.
• Begin to count sheep backwards, starting from 100.

The Power of Consciousness

Morning lethargy and listlessness can be overcome by preprogramming the mind at night and using a physical trigger routine involving a smile, three fingers, and thymus gland tapping. The thymus gland, located behind the breastplate about an inch and a half below its top edge, regulates other systems and glands. Tapping it vibrates and activates the gland. Combining this physical action with preprogramming and a smile immediately elevates mood, energy, and enthusiasm.

Morning lethargy and listlessness can be instantly overcome by preprogramming the mind at night and using a physical trigger routine involving a smile, three fingers, and thymus gland tapping.

Shirley L., manager of a women's specialty store, used to drink cup after cup of coffee and felt short-tempered. James S., a printing company manager, took an hour to wake up. Both used the Silva Method to eliminate morning blahs once and for all.

Institute this routine to beat morning blahs:

• Go to your level at night before falling asleep, and program yourself to wake up automatically at the best time to program yourself for this problem situation.
• When you awake during the night, again go to your level and mentally affirm that if you feel low in spirits, placing your three fingers together and tapping your thymus gland will make your spirits, energy, and enthusiasm high.
• Fall asleep from level.
• In the morning, put a gentle smile on your face, place your three fingers together, and thump your thymus vigorously for about a minute.

Science Digest reported that faith healers made significant changes in injured animals, while skeptical scientists caused reverse effects. In another test, Olga Worrell affected the heart rate, temperature, skin electrical quality, and brain waves of twelve chronic pain patients sitting 70 feet away. Additionally, John Campbell and Arthur M. Young demonstrated that the Hieronymus machine and even paper diagrams of its circuits could cause seeds to grow in the dark.

3. Ten Brain Cycles per Second

Ninety percent of people think and work at twenty cycles per second, which is Beta. This frequency is optimum for physical work but suboptimal for thinking. The remaining ten percent think at ten cycles per second, known as Alpha. This ten-cycle frequency serves as the crossover point where both hemispheres function according to need.

Operating at an average of ten brain cycles per second, known as Alpha, allows the right brain hemisphere to join the thinking process and activates intuition and clairvoyance.

The frequency range for Beta spans from 14-21 or over, while Alpha sits at 7-14. Theta ranges from 4-7, Delta spans from 1/2-4, and the exact middle of Alpha is 10.5. Awakening and daily living in the Beta state expose the body to constant stress, which medical research links to lowered resistance.

An insurance company in Honolulu had staff take the Silva Method training course, enabling a sixty-year-old man with crippling arthritis to regain full mobility in his fingers and curing a woman's chronic colitis.

Theory of Brain Waves and Alpha

Meditation can be passive, involving peaceful relaxation, or active, where the imagination is used creatively to solve problems. Practitioners start in the morning when Alpha is most accessible.

• When you awake in the morning, go to the bathroom, if you have to, then get back into bed.
• Close your eyes and roll them slightly upward.
• Count backwards slowly from 100 to 1 mentally.
• Wait about one second between numbers and feel yourself going deeper within.
• Enjoy the blissful, serene state for a few minutes.
• Use the coming-out procedure by saying mentally: I am going to count from 1 to 5. When I reach the count of 5, I will open my eyes, feeling wide awake, feeling fine and in perfect health, feeling better than before.
• Count: One, 2, 3... 4, 5; eyes open; wide awake, better than before. And this is so.
• After ten days, count only from 50 to 1.
• After ten more days, count only from 25 to 1.
• After ten more days, 10 to 1 will bring you to your Alpha level.

Dynamic meditation uses creative visualization away from the body to program positive outcomes, goals, and solutions instead of reinforcing problems.

Meditation and Memory Systems

Visualizing scenes or objects with the eyes closed while holding them away from your body keeps the brain in Alpha.

• Position yourself comfortably in bed, close your eyes, turn them slightly upward, and count backward from 5 to 1.
• Spend a few minutes visualizing objects with color, such as an orange, a lemon, or a hundred-dollar bill.
• Advance to complex images involving color and movement, such as white clouds drifting, morning dew on a rose, or a babbling brook.
• Visualize scenes to be out there away from your body, avoiding standard biological eye vision.
• During the day, stop at words like house and make a mental picture or mental movie connecting to past experiences.

Training your brain to operate at the ten-cycle Alpha frequency through passive and dynamic meditation unlocks vast mental computational capacity.

Memorizing lists using pure words is a left-brain activity that takes longer. By pegging letters to specific animals, recall becomes instantaneous.

• Make a list of items lettered A to J that need to be remembered.
• Use an alphabet-animal list where A=Ant, B=Buffalo, C=Cat, D=Dog, E=Elephant, F=Fox, G=Giraffe, H=Horse, I=Iguana, J=Jaguar.
• Stop and make a mental picture that physically connects each shop item with its corresponding animal.
• Ensure you see the action happening rather than just reading a string of words.

A test comparing traditional memorization against the alphabet-animal peg system allowed learners to recall a ten-item list in about one minute.

4. Harnessing Creative Imagination

Visualization relies on recalling past memories, whereas imagination creates brand new scenes that open mental channels for creativity and clairvoyance. Visualization reinforces remembered conditions by giving energy to past scenes, while imagination shifts to desired scenes that have not yet occurred, operating as dynamic meditation.

Conscious use of the right hemisphere through imagination and subjective communication opens channels for clairvoyance and remote perception.

Imagination Versus Visualization

You can practice this state by following specific steps upon awakening:

• Step 1. On awakening, go to your Alpha level by counting backwards from 5 to 1, and turning your eyes slightly upward.
• Step 2. Visualize according to previous instructions, recalling scenes from memory and seeing them out and away from your body.
• Step 3. Now imagine other scenes using new scenes not yet experienced, premiering a new mental movie of what you would like to happen.
• Step 4. Make positive statements or affirmations.
• Step 5. Count yourself up from 1 to 5, feeling wide awake, better than before.

Looking to the left while keeping eyes open and unfocused involves the right hemisphere, preventing you from slipping into the Beta brain wave state associated with biological vision. You can build the feeling of clairvoyance by selecting someone whose name you heard in business but not yet seen, or an unseen neighbor's pet, and describing the subject to yourself by saying whatever pops into your thoughts.

Principles of Subjective Communication

Subjective communication requires functioning at Alpha and communicating as if you and the recipient are one, avoiding criticism, separation, and polarity. Competitive attitudes break the connection to the universal intelligence continuum, whereas fair and truthful mental messages successfully reach others below the conscious level.

M.S., head of a Texas tool company, required key personnel and new applicants to take the Silva training. A resistant employee changed from totally negative to positive and landed a military repair contract, helping increase company sales manifold and his own sales 100-fold within two months. Half of the staff became Silva graduates.

An insurance executive struggling to sell a policy to a wealthy businessman used advice from Laredo based on the Silva Method. The next day, the secretary smiled, the businessman immediately welcomed him in, and completed a forty-three thousand dollar check in full within ten minutes.

You can prepare important business meetings in advance at the Alpha level using a 3-to-1, 10-to-1 method with an imagined expert consultant. Dr. Harold Puthoff and colleagues at SRI in California conducted the Distant Viewing project where volunteers sketched a co-worker's location in New York, yielding high objective committee ratings with an eighty percent success factor where sketches contained hits.

5. Asking Your Mind for Answers

Systematic Alpha programming and clairvoyant decision-making allow you to resolve complex business and interpersonal challenges efficiently.

Managers can use clairvoyance at the Alpha level to determine the best strategy, medium, and timing for business decisions, saving significant time and money. By entering the Alpha level and using the elimination method with an imaginary consultant or an imaginary television screen, you can narrow down choices systematically until the supermind indicates the optimal decision.

A Realtor used this procedure to determine the best communication channel, medium, specific newspaper, section, and day of the week to sell an expensive property successfully.

• Use the 3-to-1, 10-to-1 method before going to sleep to enter the Alpha level.
• Invite an imaginary consultant to appear in the picture as you visualize the property to be sold.
• Instruct yourself to awaken at the appropriate time to work on this project.
• Fall asleep from Alpha level.
• When you awaken during the night, again use the 3-to-1, 10-to-1 method to go to Alpha.
• Welcome your imaginary consultant and visualize the property again.
• Ask the first question that needs to be decided.
• Use the elimination method by pairing two choices and getting an answer.
• Continue the elimination method for subsequent choices until the optimal option remains.
• Thank your imaginary consultant and end your session by permitting yourself to fall asleep.

Clairvoyant Choice Determination

Making a list of individuals with whom you have adversarial relationships and communicating with them subjectively at Alpha dissolves interpersonal barriers. Negative feelings and animosities create separation, which blocks subjective communication and oneness.

Glenn P. used subjective communication to ask his supervisor for a day-shift transfer to save his marriage after objective attempts failed, and he received the transfer the next day.

• Make a list of individuals with whom you have an adversary relationship or resentment.
• Go to your level on awakening in the morning by counting down from 5 to 1 and turning your eyes upward.
• Visualize the first person, discuss the problem mentally, apologize for misunderstandings, and invite mutual forgiveness.
• Move the picture to the left, see the apology accepted with a handshake or rapport symbol, and feel relief.
• Repeat the exercise at night if resentment persists.

Dissolving Adversary Relationships

Preprogramming and using the Three Fingers Technique bridges the right and left brain hemispheres during writing and public speaking. Writing and speaking are Beta activities, but touching the first three fingers together after preprogramming brings right-hemisphere intuition and structure into the communication.

Fairchild Republic Co. trained nearly 100 supervisors in understanding workers and offering calmness and support, which improved morale and productivity after a major layoff of 1000 workers.

• Preprogram the technique by stating that putting the first three fingers together brings full faculties and the best ideas to bear.
• Keep the tips of the first three fingers of either hand together while writing or speaking to maintain bicameral function.

Conclusion

The Silva Mind Control Method connects brain wave frequencies, subjective mental dimensions, and active imagination into a unified system that transforms ordinary human awareness into an active tool for problem-solving.

You integrate these concepts by recognizing that physical reality is only part of the human experience.

When you slow your mind to the Alpha level, you access dimensions of time and space where mental images carry objective validity.

You no longer rely solely on slow, physical senses when you can use the rapid computing power of both brain hemispheres working together.

This total mental integration turns stress into relaxation, confusion into creative insight, and health problems into opportunities for self-healing.

To apply this system in your daily life, follow these practical rules:

1. Relax your body and center your mind every morning using mental countdowns from one hundred to one.
2. Enter your personal laboratory at the Alpha level whenever you face a difficult decision or personal problem.
3. Project yourself mentally into objects and living systems to gather accurate information through subjective communication.
4. Program your mind each night before sleep using positive mental screens to resolve tomorrow's challenges.
5. Practice daily mental housecleaning to release negative thoughts and maintain your health at the ideal level.

10 Key Ideas

1. Operating at the Alpha brain wave frequency balances both brain hemispheres, activating the intuitive right brain alongside the logical left brain.
2. The Three Fingers Technique allows managers to instantly recall knowledge and perceive information needed to solve routine problems.
3. Tension headaches can be ended by entering the Alpha level of brain waves, which automatically disconnects the Beta-related cause of the discomfort.
4. Morning lethargy and listlessness can be instantly overcome by preprogramming the mind at night and using a physical trigger routine involving a smile, three fingers, and thymus gland tapping.
5. Operating at an average of ten brain cycles per second, known as Alpha, allows the right brain hemisphere to join the thinking process and activates intuition and clairvoyance.
6. Training your brain to operate at the ten-cycle Alpha frequency through passive and dynamic meditation unlocks vast mental computational capacity.
7. Conscious use of the right hemisphere through imagination and subjective communication opens channels for clairvoyance and remote perception.
8. Systematic Alpha programming and clairvoyant decision-making allow you to resolve complex business and interpersonal challenges efficiently.
9. Preprogramming and using the Three Fingers Technique bridges the right and left brain hemispheres during writing and public speaking.
10. The Silva Mind Control Method connects brain wave frequencies, subjective mental dimensions, and active imagination into a unified system that transforms ordinary human awareness into an active tool for problem-solving.