I read some of my blog posts and noticed that a recurrent  theme is my powerlessness in getting my reactive mind triggered. I had no difficulty understanding what was happening, I was just powerless to prevent it. I’m happy to report a change for the better! 

I attribute the change to having taken the Silva Ultramind training on Vishen Lakhiani’s Mindvalley website. I had taken other distance healing classes in the past, such as Reiki, and also Vipassana meditation. These helped, but the Silva technique as taught on Mindvalley, sealed the fate of my reactive mind.

The material on Mindvalley Silva Ultramind is similar to what is in the book, The Silva Mind Control Method, by José Silva, published in 1977. The book is about  using your mind for healing, yourself and others, through meditation. There are some wonderful truths and insights taught in the Mindvalley course that go  beyond even the advanced techniques taught in the book. The Mental Video Technique is a way of making a video mentally. It’s just for you, it’s never shown to anyone else. It helps you visualize and understand what it is you are seeking, and is also part of your communication with higher intelligence. The Three Scenes Technique is a way of presenting a question – and getting an answer – to and from higher intelligence. Dreamwork is involved.

The Mental Video Technique, taught in the Mindvalley Silva course, teaches that communication with higher intelligence can be achieved by making a mental video of a situation or problem, then attaining the alpha state in meditation, and replaying the video while in that state. I made a cartoonish mental video of my reactive confusion, and determined to find a better way. 

The determination to find a solution is expressed in the Three Scenes Technique. The first scene is the replay of the mental video of the problem done while in meditation. Silva taught that the future is seen as coming from the left, the present moves to the right, becoming the past. This is the opposite of my Google Maps program. In Maps, the next street, for sequential driving directions, comes from the right while swiping left. In the Three Scenes Technique, the future comes from the left (while swiping right if the Maps analogy is useful). José Silva taught the concept based on observations of his children when they were regressed during hypnosis. He wrote about this in Silva Mind Control. The Three Scenes Technique grew out of that knowledge. It may have been described in Silva’s later book, Silva Ultramind, published during the 1990s, and it is stressed in the Mindvalley Silva Ultramind course. The second scene of the three, another creative mental scene, this one created during meditation, is visualized just to the left of the first scene. The second scene is a promise of an action that will be taken in order to address the problem in the first scene. I promised to meditate 15 minutes a day, so I saw myself sitting in meditation every morning. As the meditator focuses on the second scene, the first scene (the problem) seems to disappear to the right. The third scene is a creative visualization of the final result, the desired outcome. The meditator visualizes this into being using active meditation. I see myself maintaining my equanimity even in trying situations.

The Mental Video Technique can also be used to ask a question. Which way shall I go with a given situation? The meditator ponders a dilemma, using mental video, before going to sleep. Upon waking, any dreams or mystical experiences are analyzed to find the answer.

An additional use for the Mental Video Technique and the Three Scenes Technique is to send healing to another individual. Healing others is emphasized in all the Silva classes and books. A subject is visualized and scanned up and down with clairvoyant visualization. Any observed or suspected issue is visualized as improving. The book, Silva Mind Control, describes the creation of imaginary office space for psychic healings.  The office is fortified with Imaginary equipment, such as examination scopes and healing lasers. Two spiritual counsellors are invoked, one male and one female. The book describes how participants in the Silva workshops would pair off into two-person teams. Then one team member would clairvoyantly examine and treat a person known to the other team member with distance healing. Then the two would trade roles. I was disappointed that I was not introduced to another online participant in the Mindvalley online version of Silva Ultramind. Instead I spend 24 hours of frequent meditation focusing on a close friend or a member of my family, considering his or her issues, and visualizing his or her healing. Then I move on to another person for the next 24 hours. I am on day 8 of doing this and love it. I see no reason to ever stop. 

The things I like about Vishen’s Silva course are that it reinforces meditation and journaling. I like his redefinition of meditation as an active creation by visualization.