Silva Method · awake alpha · eyes open
Silva Method produced eyes-open alpha. The click-strobe group produced more.
You sit in the Silva class all weekend with your lids up. You want the alpha bump to show while you stay awake.
The Silva Method is a fourteen-hour weekend class. People take it when they want that calm brain-wave to show on the recording with the lids still up.
You walk in on Saturday and you keep your eyes open through the lessons.
You keep your lids up in class
You walk into the room on Saturday morning and you sit down with your eyes open for a class that runs about fourteen hours. That is the picture.
Eyes-open means the lids stay up while they record. You came for the bump that shows while you stay awake.
The weekend showed the bump
Bremner, with Moritz and Benignus, printed this test in 1972 in Neuropsychologia, and they gave the paper the title “EEG correlates of attention in humans” so you can find the same file.
EEG is the brain-wave recording. They recorded with the lids up.
One group took the Silva Method, that fourteen-hour weekend class. After the weekend, that group showed alpha.
Alpha is a brain-wave bump near 8-9 hertz, and hertz is how many times that wave repeats in one second.
Read the paper at doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(72)90022-x and at europepmc.org/article/MED/5080492.
The click-strobe group wrote more
The other group heard a click, then saw a flash, and they sat for the same kind of recording with the lids up.
Both groups showed the same kind of bump. The click-strobe group wrote more of it.
Both groups' waves also got slower. People saw or heard their own wave so they could hold it, and the mix of speeds got tighter.
The class still produced eyes-open alpha. The other group produced more of that same bump. Keep the Silva weekend if that is your class.
SATS can stay in the same week
SATS is Neville's state akin to sleep, the drowsy hour before the day ends. That hour is a different practice from an eyes-open weekend.
Keep SATS if that is your hour. Keep the Silva weekend if that is your class.
Ho'oponopono is a Hawaiian identity class. Open the Ho'oponopono page if you want that class. Open the SATS page if you want the drowsy hour. More pages live in the Library.
Questions after an eyes-open weekend
Do I drop the Silva weekend?
Keep it if that is your class. The weekend produced eyes-open alpha.
Do I switch to click and flash?
The click-strobe group is how they compared the class. Your job is the weekend you already take.
Do I drop SATS?
Keep SATS if that is your hour. The drowsy hour and the eyes-open weekend can sit in the same week.
Stay with the class you already chose
Keep the Silva weekend if that is your class. Keep SATS if that is your hour.
You came because you wanted eyes-open alpha after a weekend, with the lids still up. The class produced that bump. Another group produced more of it. Stay with the weekend you already planned, and run SATS on a night you already set aside.
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Sources
Bremner F.J., Moritz F., Benignus V. “EEG correlates of attention in humans.” Neuropsychologia 1972;10(3):307-312. DOI 10.1016/0028-3932(72)90022-x. PMID 5080492. n=20 male students, two groups of 10. Silva arm: 14-hour weekend. Classical-conditioning arm: click then strobe. Eyes-open EEG spectra. Both arms peaked near 8-9 Hz. Silva subjects produced alpha after treatment, though not in the quantity the classical-conditioning subjects showed. Both arms shifted frequency downward. Feedback narrowed both spectra. doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(72)90022-x · europepmc.org/article/MED/5080492