The Silva Mind Control Method
by Jose Silva and Philip Miele

This book is a great resource. Jose Silva was a pioneer in the area of self-hypnosis, even though he claims that isn’t the process he’s teaching now. He began with traditional self-hypnosis and then expanded its techniques. He calls his method “dynamic meditation.”

In this book, he explains the conscious and subconscious minds, the process of dynamic meditation, as well as different ways to utilize it. He instructs the reader how to use it to improve health, solve problems, increase your psychic ablities, learn faster, remember your dreams, and much more. If you’re interested in a systematic way to improve your connection to your inner self and inner power, this is a great book to have, read, and practice.

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by Linda-Ann Stewart

As a teacher of how to use one’s mind to manifest the things a person wants, I very often get the objection, “But what if what I want isn’t what the Universe, my Higher Self, wants for me?”  My response is, “Why wouldn’t the Universe want the best that you can imagine for youself?  Your Higher Self is in you, around you, thinking through you.”  Most people still have the old idea of the Universe, God, as a wise old man, sitting on a throne, doling out good to us a little at a time.  This isn’t true.

Think of the highest and best of yourself, and your Universal Self is infinitely greater than that.  But the Universe is still existing in you, through your thoughts and your desires.  As you choose something better than you’ve had, say more health, more happiness, more money, why wouldn’t that more joyous wholeness of you want you to have it?  You are simply accepting more of the good of the Universe.  All good has already been given to us.  Remember, the Universe always says “Yes” to us.  Whatever we focus our attention on, our Higher Selves gives us.

Another concern that people have is that “I feel I’m manipulating the Universe by trying to focus on what I want.”  Manifesting what we want isn’t coercing the Universe.  We are simply accepting more of the Universal energy as substance.  The Universe isn’t just wonderful, fuzzy ideals of love and joy.  It is also all of the material substance that our physical world is created from.  Divinity is Love energy in physical form.

The chair you sit on, the job you have, your relationships, your finances, your health, all if this is Love in material form in your life.  It is up to you to decide how much of that Energy you will accept.  The Universe wants to give you all you could ever desire.  The purpose of focusing on what you want is to change YOUR mind to accept it, to realize that you deserve it.  Not to change the Universal Mind.

When a smoker chooses to quit smoking, does that mean that they’re choosing something other than what their Higher Self wants for them?  Are they manipulating the Universe?  Of course not.  They are choosing life and health.  They’ve decided they want more of the goodness of the Universe.

When you have a cold, and you want to feel better, are you trying to force the Universe to give you other than good health, which is normal and natural?  No.  You are simply aligning yourself with harmony and joy when you affirm health.  You are simply changing your mind to accept what is already yours.

Generally, people will then ask, “Is it spiritual to focus on material good?”  It’s all spiritual.  To believe that our thoughts of joy and love are the only spiritual things about us separates us from the Infinite.  There is no separation between our Highest Thoughts and our more material ideas, and the ultimate physical manifestation of those thoughts and ideas.  There is an old saying, “God is the giver, and God is the gift.”

Think of it this way.  You ( an expression of God) are focusing on more good (God), say a new car (God in the form of a car, created by another expression of God).  You buy it from an individual (an expression of God) or a dealership (yes, even the salesperson is an expression of God).  You exchange money (God substance) for God in the form of a vehicle for you (an expression of God) to move around in.  It is all God, Universal energy.

The only limitation put on our experience of Infinite energy is our beliefs, ideas, and thoughts.  Any choice we make is a limitation on the Goodness of the Universe.  But that’s all the Infinite has to work with.  Our ideas, beliefs, our vision.  We can raise our thoughts to the abstract of accepting more joy, love, and harmony, and the Universal energy will manifest through those thoughts to the level we can accept.

Or we can get more specific, and expand our beliefs to deliberately raise our level of acceptance to a more specific expression of Universal energy, such as health, or financial freedom.  We can focus on poverty and struggle, or we can expand our awareness to ease and financial comfort.  Whichever way we choose, it is our Higher Self giving Itself to us.  Our good has already been given to us.  The choice of how we want our lives to be is up to us.

Copyright 1999, 2010 Linda Ann Stewart
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A nationally known hypnotherapist, writer, speaker and coach, Linda-Ann Stewart helps people rediscover their power and sense of self-worth. Visit Secrets To The Law Of Attraction to download your copy of this free ebook.

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Question: What is the best way to go about trying to manifest a past love back into one’s life?

Answer: You’re not the first person to ask me this question. I’m afraid I have bad news for you. It’s not a good thing to try to affirm or manifest a particular person into your life.

I know this is hard to accept. If you decide that you want a particular person, you’d be interfering with that other person’s choices and maybe even his karma. Interfering with another’s free choice, or their karma, isn’t pretty. If that happens, and you take someone’s choice away from them, you’ll reap the consequences eventually.

My suggestion is a hard one. I’d suggest you begin affirming for the “Divine right person to come into my life. A person who harmonizes with me.” It may or may not be the person you’re in love with now. You can affirm that if it’s right for both of you, somehow you and he connect again. But realize that there may be a much better person waiting for you to let the Universe take over your romantic life.

There’s an old saying that goes something like (I can’t remember the exact phrasing) “Let love go free. If it flies away, it was never meant to be yours. If it returns, it belongs to you.”

Copyright 2010 Linda Ann Stewart
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Jeff and I hiked one of my favorite places in Sedona, Fay Canyon, on Valentine’s Day. For those who are familiar with Sedona, it’s a canyon just west of Boynton Canyon (where the Enchantment Resort resides).

Fay Canyon is a box canyon, with an arch high up on the east wall. That was our destination. It’s a steep trail over loose rocks. Our thighs burned as we scrambled up the path. I slipped more than once, and at one point, coming down, Jeff slid and fell into me.  Fortunately, we caught ourselves and didn’t go tumbling down the hill.

When you’re climbing up to it, it looks like an overhang or shallow cave. But when you get underneath it, you find an arch that’s separated from the back wall by twenty feet or so. There was also a small Sinagua dwelling up here, dating to the 12th or 13th century, according to a book on the area by Stewart Aitchison.

As we descended, I decided that safety was more important than dignity, and scooted down some of the rocks on my posterior. We didn’t have time to continue to the end of Fay Canyon, but will return to hike to that point.

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Question: When focusing on a particular goal, is it better to use a single sentence affirmation or several (four to six) sentences?

Answer: There are conflicting opinions on whether it is better to use a one sentence affirmation or several sentences. My experience is that the best way is to have a several sentence affirmation that you say a couple of times a day, along with a single sentence affirmation that reinforces the long affirmation. You can use the single sentence as a type of mantra during the day.

For myself, if I’m working on a particularly difficult issue, I’ll write a long affirmation that might be up to two pages long. It will include all of the issues around the difficulty, and include a single sentence that really impresses me as incorporating the essence of the affirmation. I’ll read the long affirmation out loud a couple of times a day, and then repeat a shorter version several times a day. I’ve made some incredible breakthroughs with this technique, which derives from my experience as a hypnotherapist.

Copyright 2001, 2010 Linda Ann Stewart
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Perfectionism is an unattainable goal, causing people to be constantly dissatisfied. They have unreasonably high standards, that they try to achieve because of fear. And the more they try to be perfect, the worse it gets. In the video, there are a couple of questions they can ask they can ask when tempted to do things perfectly.

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by Linda-Ann Stewart

I remember watching a television program where a modern working mother tried to keep her house as clean as her mother had. She spent her weekends nagging her husband and kids to wash and fold the laundry, dust, etc., while she scrubbed the refrigerator, kitchen, and house from top to bottom. The weekends were stressful times, and her family life suffered. Everyone was miserable as she put a clean house ahead of her relationship with them. She was unsuccessfully trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal of a perfect house.

Perfectionism is a waste of time and energy. When it becomes the focus of your life, it affects every part of it. Relationships suffer, as does your health. The stress and pressure you put on yourself can contribute to all sorts of health problems, such as high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, arteriosclerosis and much more. Think of all the health problems associated with a Type-A personality and that is what you risk when you attempt to live up to idealistic expectations.

That stress isn’t coming from others, it’s coming from within you. It’s been said that stress isn’t so much from the events in your life, as it is from your reactions to them. Perfectionism means you’re trying to reach for an unattainable goal, and by doing so, you’re destined to be disappointed, unhappy, and dissatisfied.

Striving for perfection can distract you from what you truly want in life: abundance, harmony, health, relationships, and so on. By focusing so much on details you forget to look at the whole picture of what you want.

Here are some steps to help you break this self-sabotaging habit:

1. Take one item of your life and don’t do it. Leave dishes in the sink for a few hours. Wait for a day to fold the sheets and towels. This is to help you to get more comfortable with letting some things go and attending to more important things, like relationships.
2. Focus on what’s right in your life, rather than what’s wrong or needs to be fixed. Many people are trying to gain approval or control their environment by being perfect. This creates the internal tension that you feel as stress. Life is a process and imperfect, and by changing your focus, you’ll relieve some of your pressure.
3. Finish a project, rather than trying to get it perfect. Many people avoid completion to avoid criticism. Get it done as quickly as you can. Do it with what you already have. Do it even if you don’t feel prepared to finish it. Successful people tend to jump into a project without having all the information or knowing where it’s going.
4. Leave some clutter on your desk. Contrary to popular belief, some mess actually improves creativity. And people who make more money are less likely to consider themselves to be “neat freaks.”

Your coworkers and friends aren’t turning themselves into sleepless wonders to get things done. They let some things slide to have a higher quality of life. Which do you want more of in your life, stress and a constant search to make things perfect, or success, abundance, ease, health and harmony? The choice is up to you.

Affirmation

Being perfect is an unattainable ideal, and one that blocks my enjoyment of life. I now give myself permission to let some things slide. The only person who will notice is me, and I am being kind to myself. I ease up on life, and now choose success, happiness, harmony, and health.

Copyright 2010 Linda Ann Stewart
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A nationally known hypnotherapist, writer, speaker and coach, Linda-Ann Stewart helps people rediscover their power and sense of self-worth. Visit Secrets To The Law Of Attraction to download your copy of this free ebook.

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