Programming tips from Juan

Guidance for healing and other programming

(This interview, conducted with Juan Silva in 1996, draws on his 45 years of research and experience in the field. The interview was conducted by Ed Bernd Jr., who worked closely with Juan as coordinator of the Silva alumni association that Juan founded in 1982. They begin with a discussion about why it is important to practice entering deep levels of mind.)

by Juan R. Silva

We always use our relaxation techniques with conscious awareness. The deeper we go, the more benefits we will be able to derive from the lower brainwave frequencies, because achieved these levels with consciousness awareness.

Principally, we will be able to program our biochemistry a lot better, because by then we will have ventilated a lot of impediments.

Consequently we are able to program our mind and body at all of these levels, where we can be able to control our biochemistry a lot better, and be able to program -- transmit -- better in programming people, programming the cases we work.

So the deeper we go, the more benefits we will be able to derive.

Q: Benefits such as what?

Well, you are a vehicle. As a vehicle, you will be able to transmit, receive, you will be able to transfer energies by your programming. So when it comes to helping other people, and helping yourself, you can become very efficient at that.

The best of you will surface.

The natural you will surface. This is a beautiful feeling.

In the process of you achieving these levels, you have to work yourself down to a deeper level every time. As you go deeper, you are ventilating these particular impediments, negative factors that you have recorded. You are able to erase, or ventilate, these factors.

So the deeper that you go into these levels, the more that you will be able to benefit from your natural functions of your body.

All these impediments are blocking your natural functions of your body from functioning properly.

Your natural functions of your body are what keep you healthy.

We haven't been healthy for a long time, so as we ventilate all these negative factors, then we are getting closer until finally we receive that -- we feel a lot better, it feels like an extremely light feeling; even the sun shines differently.

Q: How do we get contaminated in the first place?

We don't have any means of neutralizing all these negative inputs throughout the day, throughout the week, throughout the month, that our five senses are able to record.

We do it unconsciously. When we hear any noise that impresses us, fear always takes over. That's the strongest factor in our survival mechanism.

Everything is related to fear of one thing or another. That's what we acquire, and that's what impedes the natural function of our body from functioning naturally.

So when we ventilate these, it makes a difference.

Anything that is impressed with fear is impressed much stronger than anything else, so this is why we have to neutralize it.

We don't have any means of neutralizing this, until you go through all these exercises. You take this progressive relaxation exercise; then when you very deep, you are able to ventilate these gradually.

Q: Where does this fear come from?

This kind of fear could come from any source: a gun that goes off, or somebody who threatens you, or you come close to getting run over by a car...whatever you perceive as a threat.

Principally in dreams.

In dreams there is no shock absorbing method to control that. It goes full blast.

You are going to dream about the most outstanding things that happened to you that day. So it is not only that one time that you heard it, that it happened to you. When it comes to dreaming about it, there is no shock absorbing thing to control it, so it is worse that the event that you experienced.

It triggers off all of your glandular, body chemistry, and this is no good.

So that is what is impressed in us, and it is what starts blocking our natural way of living and working and thinking.

The best way to deal with it is deep relaxation. The deeper the better. Then you will be able to neutralize all these things.

Q: How do you recommend doing it?

You can memorize the Long Relax. Memorizing is a good word to use. But you should memorize it the way you think you read it. You don't have to memorize it word for word. It is the context of what you are memorizing that matters.

When you read it the first time, the importance of this was recorded in your mind already. Consequently, afterwards, when you try to memorize it, it does not have to be word for word, because you already have the meaning.

So you memorize it. Don't let anybody else recite it to you. Don't listen to a tape of it yet, don't let somebody read it to you.

You do it yourself - you on your own efforts.

You have to do it yourself because nobody else can tell you how much you're hurting. Nobody else can tell you how badly you need this, but yourself.

So consequently, that's why you should not let anybody else recite this to you.

You memorize it. You use your imagination. You use your programming the way you should.

This is very important because you are involving your emotion. When this happens, you are putting in the greatest desire to get well that can be used.

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