Think and Grow Fit Ebook

Think and Grow Fit

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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