| Kabbalah | | | | their experience from their attitude so that when |
| There are various kinds of meditation. One is | | | | a negative one is changed it causes that person's |
| Kabbalah meditation. The adherents say that it | | | | experience of the world to change. It says that |
| helps you to be peaceful, increases your | | | | our mind power can create the world we want. |
| happiness, and makes you more aware. This type | | | | Silva thought that most people only use the logical |
| of meditation is more than two thousand years | | | | part of their brain and by teaching them to use |
| old. Kabbalah was restricted to men more than | | | | the creative part people could utilize this mostly |
| forty years of age and people of certain classes | | | | unused right side of their brain to capture the |
| until the 16th century. But these days it isn't | | | | power that isn't usually used. This method gives |
| restricted so that any interested party can learn | | | | people a toolkit to use for different situations in |
| and practice Kabbalah meditation. | | | | life. For example, teaching them how-to quit |
| The concept of this meditation is like others in | | | | smoking without an aid like the patch or to |
| that it is about relaxing and achieving an improved | | | | overcome insomnia without a drug. |
| life through its practice. Adherents believe that | | | | Many times guided meditation is utilized to help the |
| through it every negative emotion can be | | | | meditators learn these new skills that go into their |
| banished from the practitioner's body, soul, and | | | | toolkit. This bit-by-bit method helps them to |
| mind, using mind over matter does this. There are | | | | acquire the new skill, which is a different response |
| two elementary levels of this meditation: practical | | | | to a problem. |
| and theoretical. The people that deal mostly with | | | | Silva meditation engenders medical benefits for |
| the theoretical are rabbis that are trying to get | | | | the practitioner, which is a relaxed state of mind |
| closer to god. The practical ones use it to | | | | that is very deep. The state where the |
| perform exorcisms. Still, it is also a practice that | | | | meditator's brain waves are at 8 to13 Hz has |
| people use to make their daily life better. | | | | several health benefits such as lowering |
| Silva | | | | cholesterol and making more blood go to the |
| Jose Silva created this kind of meditation during | | | | brain. Proponents say that they are ill less-as |
| the 1940's. It is said that it can improve your I.Q. | | | | much as fifty percent and use medication less as |
| It was originally name Silva Mind Control, which | | | | much as sixty-percent. This is once they know |
| lead people to think it was about controlling other | | | | the Silva method and use it. |
| people's minds, but it is about controlling your own | | | | Another aspect of the Silva meditation technique |
| mind. The philosophy of Silva meditation is that | | | | is controlling dreams. It is called lucid dreaming. |
| the viewpoint of the individual concerning the | | | | Some of the adherents have said that they have |
| world effects how that person experiences his | | | | learned of allergies while in a lucid dream state. |
| surroundings. It says that a person can create | | | | |