Silva medtitation method

[Banjoshee]

Here's a question about the three screen Silva method.  

First a description of the three screen method: You show the present situation and problems in front of you on a mental screen, move the screen to the left and work on fixing the problems, then move the screen again to the left and picture you or whoever you're working on as being in perfect health with problems gone. Voila. All is good.

Okay, my question to all of you relates to the direction of the screens. Silva noted after much observation that the the present moved to the left and the past to the right. This is why he set up the screens to move into the future--to the left.

For me this has always felt incorrect. If I view the history of man, starting from organisms moving out of the oceans, to present, to future man, the past is to the left and the future to the right.

I've recently come across information about scientific studies done on the "coding of eye-accessing locations." It used to be thought that most of us were "lefties" with remembered information being connected to an upward right eye movement and constructed images connected to upward left eye movements. You know the old cop novels where the cop new someone was lying when answering a question because suspect looked up and to the left (so making it up) rather than up and to the right?  

Yeah, I'd be in jail because, thing is, there are also "righties" where the eye movements and thought retrieval  are opposite, so memories are left and constructed thoughts are to the right. And, there are centres, too. People who just look up.

So, long time getting around to the question. Do you suppose if I switched the screens to coincide with my view of past, present, future, that that would be okay and I wouldn't set off some strange sequence of events?

[Tom]

It is common for people to have different ways to represent past, present, and future within their own minds. You might find that you can get interesting results from making yourself use a different representation than usual, but it is probably better just to use yours while you are working on learning a new technique. If you want to get something more official for documentation, look into NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). There are timeline exercises in NLP and they start by having people recognize the way they represent their own timeline.

[Banjoshee]

Thanks very much, Tom.  I will now try the method using my own mental patterns. Be interesting to see if I get different results.

Is there a specific NLP website or resource that you would suggest? I hadn't heard of it before and after taking a cruise around the web in search of it I'm a bit overwhelmed.

[Tom]

My reaction to NLP was similar. I have not gotten started with it, even now that I know it combines very well with techniques I'm already using.