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The Silva Method
Think and Grow Fit
The Silva Method Think and Grow Fit, Jose Silva's Guide to mental training for fitness and sports, by Jose Silva with Ed Bernd Jr.

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Jose Silva's Guide to Mental Training for Fitness and Sports: The Silva Method - Think and Grow Fit
     The Silva Method can help you get the body you want.
     There are dozens of stories in this book about people just like you -- from fitness trainees to weekend wanta-be's to world champions - who explain exactly how they used the techniques of the World's Number One mind development program to help them make their dreams come true.
     See what basketball coach Hector Chacon says about how the Silva Star Athlete program helped the Martin High School Tigers boys basketball team win the bi-district championship after they had been picked to finish in the bottom half of the district.
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Team rises from bottom to top with help of Silva techniques:
     In this 53 minute workshop, presented at the 1994 Silva Method Intrnational Convention, Basketball Coach Hector Chacon explains exactly how they used the Silva Method to help a team not expected to have a winning season go all the way to the championship.
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National and World Champions:
     *Find out how the practical aspects of the Silva Method enabled Vidheya, a young Italian girl, to become a National Martial Arts Champion.
     *World Series MVP Bucky Dent tells how the Silva Method helped him in his career, and why he recommends it to his younger players.
     *Bruce Schneider details how he used the Silva Method techniques to help him hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning that won the game and qualified his team for the slow pitch softball World Series.
     *Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno of the Philippines explains how the Silva Method techniques helped him win the World Cup of Bowling.
     *World Champion backgammon player Vernon Ball tells how the Silva Method techniques help him in his type of competition.
     *Internationally known sports psychologist Andrzej Wojcikiewicz explains how the Silva Method techniques helped the Canadian National Fencing Team improve dramatically and do much better than expected in the Barcelona Olympics.

Young athletes:
     *Learn how the Silva Method techniques helped Natalie Lacuesta, an eleven year old Illinois girl and the youngest member of her team, achieve the Number One ranking in the United States in rhythmic gymnastics in a matter of months.
     *Discover the one simple technique that high school basketball coach Hector Chacon used in his halftime talk that turned a group of athletes that the experts considered losers, into winners.
     *Learn how Dana Sheets, who believed Jose Silva when he told her she could accomplish anything, used programming and physical practice to make her high school's varsity tennis team as a freshman.
     *Ernesto O. Uy used the Silva Method techniques to win a championship in marksmanship, then helped his son use the techniques to win a championship in a declamation contest.

People who thought they weren't athletes:
     *Ma Fatima Da Luz tells how she turned her clumsiness into success and won a cup in a tae kwon do tournament.
     *Businessman Raju Mangharam reports that the Silva Method visualization technique helped him learn to play tennis in less than half the time it usually takes for people to learn the game.
     *See how a businessman in the Philippines who had never been involved in sports, trained mentally and helped his fellow employees win the "sportsfest" at their company picnic.

Older athletes:
     *An Ohio man explains why the Silva Method was invaluable in giving him the stamina to earn his black belt in karate at the age of fifty-seven.
     *Learn how the oldest player on the softball team -- old enough to be the father of most of the other players -- uses mental techniques to help him retain his reputation as a power hitter, which leads to being named MVP when he led his team to victory in a tournament.

Research proves benefits:
     *Field hockey students who used a combination of visualization at the alpha level and physical practice for just five minutes a day improved more than twice as much as athletes who used only visualization or physical practice alone. Read the results in Chapter 1.
     *Research at a university in Israel proved that actual character traits can be changed with the Silva Method techniques, reducing anxiety in individuals. See Chapter 5 for details.
     *A college professor in Tasmania taught one Silva Method technique to his students and they improve their grades the following term by one letter grade. This research, in Chapter 21, was reported in the journal of the Society for Accelerated Learning and Teaching.
     *Intuition can be taught, according to research conducted by Dr. George Maycock at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. His report is in Chapter 9.

Read this book and do what it says:
     Whether you are a beginner or a world champion, there are techniques in this book that you can use for physical improvement. Don't just sit and watch other people enjoying the rewards of physical fitness -- get up and get involved.
     Use the mental techniques of the Silva Method the way that the superstars do, and enjoy the benefits of better health, attractive appearance, the recognition for what you have accomplished, and the personal satisfaction of knowing that you achieved something worthwhile.
     Use the techniques in this book to help you get the body you want, and to live the healthy, successful life that you deserve.

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     You can follow the program of 40 days of countdown exercises in the book, or in just a matter of hours you can use the guided meditations in the Choose Success Home Study Course to find the Alpha brain wave level and learn to function there with conscious awareness.
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