You the Healer

After these forty mornings of countdown relaxation practice, count backward only from 5 to 1 and begin to use your alpha level for health benefits.

to 1 for ten mornings.
• Then count backward from 25 to 1 for ten mornings.
• Then count backward from 10 to 1 for ten mornings.

Count backward from 100 to 1 for ten mornings.
• Then count backward from 50

1. When you awake tomorrow morning, if you have to, go to the bathroom. Then go back to bed. Set your alarm clock to ring in fifteen minutes.
2. Close your eyes and roll them slightly upward toward your eyebrows (about 20 degrees).

ing away from any objects also triggers more right-brain activity.
The Mental Screen

Mind-control advantages occur best when the eyes are about twenty degrees above the horizontal. I call this area the mental screen.
Our use of the mental screen at the alpha level becomes an important means of improving our health.
With these explanations in mind, you can continue the procedure begun above:
3. Count slowly from 100 to 1. Do this silently — that is, mentally. Wait about one second between numbers.
4. When you reach the count of 1, hold a picture of yourself in your mind as youthful, radiant, healthy, and attractive.
5. Repeat mentally, “I will always maintain a perfectly healthy body and mind.”
6. Then say to yourself, “I am going to count from 1 to 5. When I reach the count of 5, I will open my eyes, feeling fine and in perfect health, feeling better than before.”
7. Begin to count. When you reach 3, repeat, “When I reach the count of 5, I will open my eyes, feeling fine and in perfect health, feeling better than before.”
8. Continue your count to 4 and 5. At the count of 5, open your eyes and affirm mentally, “I am wide awake, feeling fine and in perfect health, feeling better than before.

3. Count slowly from 100 to 1. Do this silently — that is, mentally. Wait about one second between numbers.
4. When you reach the count of

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Your Mental Computer Runs Your Body

The Silva Method shows yo

with respect to your health but also in regard to every other facet of your life, as brain neurons that have either been loafing on the job or working against you are suddenly made to work for your betterment.
Because you cannot read this book and relax simultaneously, use this strategy. Read the instructions first; then put the book down, close your eyes, and follow the instructions. Here is your first set of instructions:
1. Sit comfortably in a chair and close your eyes.
2. Take a deep breath, and as you exhale, relax your body.
3. Count slowly backward from 100 to 1.
4. Daydream about some peaceful place you know.
5. Say to yourself mentally, “I will always maintain a perfectly healthy body and mind.”
6. Tell yourself mentally that when you open your eyes at the count of 5, you will feel wide awake and better than before. When you reach the count of 3, repeat this. When you open your eyes affirm it again (“I am wide awake and feeling better than before”).

peaceful place you know.
5. Say to yourself mentally, “I will always maintain a perfectly healthy body and mind.”
6. Tell yourself mentally that when you open your eyes at the count of 5, you will feel wide awake and better than before. When you reach the count of 3, repeat this. When you open your eyes affirm it again (“I am wide awake and feeling better than before”).

1. Sit comfortably in a chair and close your eyes.
2. Take a deep breath, and as you exhale, relax your body.
3. Count slowly backward from 100 to 1.
4. Daydream about some