Our thoughts come to us at any time of the day. At night, we have dreams. Hence our minds operate randomly when it comes to thoughts. When we remember and recall things, it is part of a thought process too. When we recall about good things that invigorate and inspire us, we call those positive thoughts. As you can see, this is a very random process.
At times, we feel helpless when there is a deluge of negative thoughts coming out of no where. Its something we don't want, but these negative thoughts just overcome us. It can be at a social setting, an office meeting or while driving along the highway.
Now let Maria Duval share with you some ways in which these negative thoughts can be contained.
You need to do is learn to stop thinking about it all of the time. There are always two side of a coin or the half empty or half full example. Our minds are flexible and the more better side of the thought you exert, the better it will be naturally.
Take for example, you are in debt. Instead of lamenting how much money is used to pay off these liabilities, you can adjust and tell yourself you are getting richer each month as you pay them off. It is same situation but the state of thought has changed completely!
Every person has to take control of his or her own thoughts!
Maria Duval challenges you to seize back control of your thoughts, and turn this into a habit and an automatic process to gain on the ever increasing positives that you have in your life.
4.3.11
On School of Thoughts
17.5.10
Power is in our hands
We have already the powers of the universe in our hands. Through thoughts, we are what our thoughts have made us, so Maria wants you to be careful of what you think, as this is the power of the universe at work. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
When an idea strongly occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. We reap what we sow, as the saying goes. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise.
There is no help for you outside yourself as you are the creator of the universe. Like a caterpillar, you have built a cocoon around yourself before you go to the next transformation as a beautiful butterfly, as the free soul.
13.5.10
Screen Through Your Thoughts
Each of us has a choice to be good or bad. Similarly, we decide what kind of thoughts that filter through our minds.
Maria Duval suggests that if you think that your life is not what it is supposed to be like, you should spend sometime and:
- Analyse the thoughts you have in your brain.
- Then examine the actions you embark as a result of these thoughts.
- Then look at the consequences of these actions.
- Correct your thoughts to achieve the desired outcome.
Yes, you can do it!
Yes, you always churn out what you think. Positive changes originate in your mind. How can you improve something when you say you hate it? When you say something, your words not only serve to convince you, you also pronounce a decree and you block the creative energy that could indicate solutions for improving your life.
Follow this piece of advice: become more aware of the thoughts that go through your head through regular introspection. Take 5-10 minutes a day, preferably in the evening before you go to sleep, and look at what has happened to you over the course of the day.
22.2.10
Listener and Talker
I remember that when I was younger, about eight to ten years old, I would listen to every adults I met. My dad told me children need to listen more, rather than talk more. I took it by heart and agreed. Hence I'd sit one side and listen to adults talking on and on, without any inkling what's happening.
As I grow up, I began to understand the value of "listening". A listener learns more than the speaker. Listening helps us to discern between right and wrong.
Most successful people listened, they listened to what people want and every complain they received. They did not once make any comment or criticism because they did not have to. They showed to others that they cared because they listened. They learned what others missed.
On the other hand, a talker likes to listen to his own voice and he or she is usually a person who has high ego. Don't you ever hear this? "A wise old owl sat on an oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard".
6.10.09
Control Your Thoughts
Even if you don't buy into the law of attraction, the concept still applies as much as anyone else as to you who are all living in this planet.
Maria Duval says the reason why law of attraction applies to all, whether to believers or disbelievers, is that it is a sure part of the universal laws.
We cannot limit how we think everyday, but we are able to be aware of our constant and recurring thought process, and this can be done simply by concentrating just a few minutes a day about our thoughts process and our inner feelings.
Maria says people attract bad things into lives unknowingly, even if nobody wants bad things to happen at all. The culprit is the subconscious mind that works within the law of attraction. What you consciously do not want has very little to do with it.
Maria Duval advises to spend about 10-15 minutes a day sitting or laying down in a quiet room, and start paying attention to what thoughts are crossing your mind. Meditation in another words.
After a few days practicing just as a watcher of your thoughts, try to replace any thought that you see as negative, by something you would like to have or would like to be.
Now you may have a total control of your thought which can allow you to literally transform your life.
25.9.09
Deja vu
"Deja vu" means you feel as though you have visited a place before, even though you were visiting it for the first time, or meeting someone for the very first time yet oddly feel that the face is strangely familiar, like you have met him or her years ago, but you are just unable to recall when you seem to have met the person. It happens to many people in their daily encounters, and it makes our lives interesting.
Recently, I met a vendor. When I opened my office door, that familiar feeling surged me, and I immediately told him about this familiar feeling. He sensed the same thing too, but we couldn't recall when was that...I not sure too, maybe i knew him in the past life?
That's a distinct possibility as I believe in such thing called past life. Maria Duval mentioned about past life too, as do many great spiritual men.
Subconsciously, your mind records your past events that happened in your past life and that's why you find it familiar today. Do you know that our subconscious is part of our spiritual soul and this soul accompanies you from life to life. It may appear absurd and this is the mystery where modern science can't solve or explain.
Ever heard about the story of a psychiatrist who hypnotized a patient. While in the hypnotic state, past life memories that were stored in the patient's subconscious mind were awakened and she gave stunning details of her past life experiences.
In Buddhism, there is always the mentioning of past life and how we are like and what place we life or what life we lead today is always linked to our past life. It's an external cycle of suffering and to break free from this endless cycle, one has to achieve the purest state of enlightenment. This is the core of the idea.
If you have ever wondered about the possibility of past lives, a little research may end any doubts that you may have had.
Mere T. is a spiritualist and a support of Maria Duval.
14.8.09
Foundation of our ideas
All new thoughts and ideas start at the mind and they must be built on a strong foundation or it will collapse. It is just like a 50 story building which is built on a very strong and deep foundation. The stronger it is, the higher the construction can go. This means the greater we can soar is all based on the foundation of our mind.
Yes, everyone can agree that your mind is the most powerful gift you have.
"The imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous and inconceivable force the world has ever known". Said Napoleon Hill.
To realize the full power of your mind, it's important to understand there are three main parts of it. The conscious mind is the part that thinks and reasons. The subconscious mind is the part that carry's out the commands given by the conscious mind. Lastly, the body is part of the mind too. It carry's out the consistent thoughts we put upon it.
Maria Duval thinks that the power of your mind can work for or against you. All depending on how you use it. If you constantly think about what you don't want then you'll have a strong likelihood of creating what you don't want. One must focus on what you really want. Something that creates the passion the core desire.
6.7.09
Mindless Thoughts
A friend of mine is very into stock market. He likes it enough to even think of being a full day trader.
Education system that we all went through emphasises in study hard and do well for exams for that when we grow up, we can secure a good and respectable blue collar job. So we will spend the rest of our lives working for money by trading our times. We buy houses, cars and set up families and we spend years clearing the debts we incur.
That is why my friend wants to get out of this devious cycle - the rat race- through an escape route available, which a man could build his own business or spend some money in investments. He chooses trading. The potentials are surely there.
The thing is, every few years, the stock markets would crash and cause economy downturns, and people will get devastated. There will come to a point where they would warn their children to get a secure job instead of being entrepreneurs and investing because risks. A wrong move could set you back years.
I am not sure why I write this today. It's just things that come into my mind and I just put it in.
Oh yeah, I receive Maria Duval's latest letters. I like what she writes there.
12.6.09
If You Think..
Great verses from a self-improvement master.
If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will--
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!
Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
19.7.08
Maria Duval about seeking the truth
Maria Duval understands all humanity is seeking candor, justice and beauty. We are on a continuous grill for reality because we only trust the lies that are fixed on our brain. We explore for justice because it does not survive in our belief practice. We never stop pointed, but all is already within us! We do not find the precision ultimately because we cannot see the integrity! The agreements obscured it that we have given to ourselves and the false beliefs that mess our minds. Human beings have an essential to be right and obey others illegal. They have confidence in their beliefs and it is these beliefs that condemn them to their anguish.
In actuality, life goes on as if we were tender through a class of fog, a fog that is not even honest, that is nothing but a goal, a delicate "life delight," made up of our beliefs, all the ideas we have about what we are, all the agreements that we have made with others, with ourselves and even with God.
This is the being situation: immersed in illusion. Humanity cannot see what it actually it, nor even perceive that it is not limitless. It resists life, anxious of speaking the exactness. The answer: happiness, fondness, fate and wealth are absent from our life. We are necessary to struggle constantly, just to keep what we have or keep our suffering to a smallest.
Simply being ourselves is what we horror most. We have cultured to live forcing ourselves to suffer the needs of others, to live according to the crux of scrutiny of others, out of anxiety that they will not accept us, or we are not good enough in their eyes.
So how has this illusion come to form part of your life?
The answer is: this is part of your domestication procedure. You may not evoke it, but you devised an idea of what constitutes perfection so that you could forever try to do the right thing. You produced a copy of how you should be to be accepted by the world, and specifically to choose your parents, brothers, sisters, and teachers, etc.
By tiresome to do the right thing in their eyes, you constructed a view of perfection that is impossible to achieve. You created that persona, but it is not frank and you will never achieve perfection in this way.
Not being honed, you have a bent to discard yourself. Our point of rejection depends on how efficiently adults destroyed our integrity. Basically, once the domestication manage is determine, it is no longer an instance of burden the "right thing" in the eyes of others. From that time onwards, we are not "doing the right thing," because we cannot conform to our idea of perfection.
We are powerless to forgive ourselves for not being what we fancy to be. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being "complete," so we feel bad, frustrated and dishonest by pretending to be superstar we are not. The significance is, we are not "existent" and we corrosion societal masks to ensure other people won't see this as we are scared people will find out our pretensions. Of course, we are also constantly looking out for people's imperfections so that we feel good about it when we know we are "better" than them.
All humans have primordial indigence to be loved and accepted, but humans are also incapable of accepting and loving themselves. Showing should of character-obey is a signpost of not loving themselves. Just follow, how many open records are acting in nature esteem of themselves? They are just being harsh on themselves yet they act childishly ignorant of the truth that they are throwing away natures-respect. So how to achieve the image of perfection in the eyes of others, as what Maria Duval asks?
Well, there's always good rumor. There is no need to live in this municipal of unending fear. Do not unease because there is always archaic wisdom agreed down from the realm of narration and you can learn from this wisdom of life to free yourself from the unhelpful conditioning that has so far blocked your fulfillment in life. Learn from the Secrets of the Ancient Magi.
23.6.08
Positive Affirmations
Maria Duval and many motivational gurus have always believed in the wonders of self positive affirmation. They are totally free and are specific to your own, that's why I urge anyone who wishes to improve their lives to find your own life affirmations and take advantage of the spiritual source of energy affirmations can give to you.
Here are some simple positive affirmations I like to share with you:
I shall face to world and people with great self confidence.
I am a person who is worthy of love.
Successes will always come to me in whatever tasks I take on.
I am always positive and helpful to people around me.
I have great belief that the riches of the universe will come to me soon.
Luck and prosperity flows abundantly into my life easily.
I am responsible for my own success.
The more positive I am, the more positive energy will be find me.
My mind is a magnet that attracts the richness of the universe.
Find your own set of positive affirmations and repeat it 2 to 3 times a day. As you repeat them, you will realise that you will be getting more confident and life gradually gets better.
Remember, thoughts and words are energies that resonate to the universe hence these are powerful ways to assert and proclaim to the universe that you are ready to accept the riches it will shower.
Any of these free affirmations examples will help you to replace negative thought with positive thought or simply give you motivation to continue on your path even when you are thinking about giving up.
I am utterly surprised by the power of affirmations in my life. I know I am actually filling myself with positive energy. I find tasks a lot easier and I'm more sure of myself when i make decisions in my life.
Thank you Maria Duval.
Give the power of affirmations a trial. You have nothing to lose and a lot of gain!
14.6.08
Maria Duval - Guarding our thoughts
Maria Duval always says watching and guarding our thoughts is as important as eating or sleeping. Because thoughts determine how we turn out to be in reality.
To put it simply, after these few months of learning and understanding, I come to realise that most people do not watch their own thoughts and constantly focusing on what they DON'T WANT. Unfortunately, what they don't want are usually what they will get in life! In the end, people suffered and they start to blame their woes on EVERYTHING for their own plight. I admit the society needs to be compassionate towards such people, however, they need to know intently that they need to think of the abundance of the universe rather than the opposite.
