According to Hindu belief, gratitude is one of the most important aspects to be a upright man. Ingratitude is inexcusable and unforgiven.
Just wondering what exactly means by gratitude?
Maria Duval explains in the simplest form, by expressing 'thank you' at times enough signifies our gratitude. At times we are helped so much by someone that mere words of thanks can never repay the help. This kind of help and sharing has to be remembered by us at all the times and we should make every effort to repay that.
Even if we are not able to repay the gratitude in full, our very feeling of being obliged keeps our heart pure and makes our helper feel good.
Gratitude is also immeasurable, unable to get written down in terms of numbers or money. But we can at least be ready and apply all our might to return the help in all possible ways.
For example, expressing your gratitude to your parents who take care of you unselfishly till you are grown up. We can at least try and see that our parents should never feel helpless and alone in her old age.
Similarly, reneging on the kind assistance of a buddy when you are in hard times by committing a grave act on him in return is unforgivable.
One should never commit any sin, and one should never even dream of committing the sin of ingratitude.
9.10.09
Show gratitude at all times
8.10.09
Improving Charisma
Why are do some people seem to draw all attention without effort, while others will always be a wall flower?
Maria Duval has some good suggestions to build up your charisma:
Show yourself.
Be positive towards others who could have good intentions towards you. In this way, you can take down the invisible veil and radiating this feeling. Yes, people around you can feel it as we energy mass ourselves.
Show interest
Show interest in other people and don't fake it. Ask yourself to listen wholeheartedly. Ask questions that interest the other party and invite them to talk about their experience. Everybody loves to talk about themselves.
Open yourself.
Approach others openly. Keep eye contact during a conversation. Do not avoid eye contact, and watch your body language. Crossing your arms or legs does not invite for conversation. Stand or sit casually and use a lively way of speaking.
Remember people's names
When being introduced to a dozen new people on a party, no one expects you to remember all the names. But people do really like it if you remember and use their names. So listen carefully when being introduced and repeat someone's name or ask if you have heard it correctly.
7.10.09
Weeding your Subconscious
If you really want to heal, you have to know the truth. Maria Duval says the truth is, that you have to know what caused whatever your issue is. The only way to change the outcome is to change the cause. If you remove the cause, you remove the effect. Right?
Except pretty much all of us have been lied to because most people just don't understand how the world - and the universe - really works. We've been taught that things "just happen" to us. You know the old saying: "stuff happens."
But here's the truth that will set you free: if you're experiencing it, you created it.
Which sounds a lot like blaming the victim, only it isn't. Because there are no victims. Maria says we all vibrate at a certain frequency, much like a radio sending out a signal. Those things in the universe that are tuned to our signal hone in and are drawn to us. Whether it's health or disease, wealth or poverty, great relationships or abusive ones, it's just the law of attraction.
The fair thing is that the Universe has just been matching our signal we give out with our life experiences. So when Maria Duval says you created whatever challenges you're experiencing now, maybe not deliberately or consciously created them. It is your Subconscious.
Yes, you have a chance to unwind these layers of mud in your Subconscious so that you can release your maximum potentials in life.
Of course, the question is: how do you do that, if all this stuff, all these causes of the effects you don't want are buried deep in your subconscious?
That's why I seek our Maria Duval for her valuable guidance in this area. She's the expert!
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.
2.10.09
Positive Affirmations
Maria Duval has taught that it is extremely important for your well-being to imagine positive thoughts and belief into you such that your subconsciousness will welcome these to the extent that beneficial events like health and successes will blossom.
By frequent repetition of positive affirmations, one can go about to achieve this goal.
Repetition of strong positive affirmations possesses a real power. The repetition, whether conscious or subconscious, of negative thoughts, will end up manifesting in unlucky and unfavourable events in your life, whereas, the repetition of positive thoughts from a positive source of belief, will lead to success.
This principle from Maria Duval goes like this: by concentrating on a positive thought, you create and feel a positive reality. If you concentrate wealth, you will experience wealth. If you concentrate on your job success, you will experience your job success.
For example, "I am more and more convinced that great wonderful moments are coming to my life in the future", or "a positive mental attitude is an unlimited source of well-being, happiness, abundance, success and health."
Maria Duval says that most efficient method is to say them as often as possible throughout the day, in your head or read out. Think about its deeper meaning as you repeat them, allow them to sink into your mind.
The most important times to repeat it are of course in the morning when you just wake up or before you sleep in the evening.You can also write them down in large piece of papers and stick it on the wall so that you see them regularly.
I wish you to be positive and fruitful in life!
1.10.09
On Spiritual Practice
It goes without any saying that most of the tasks in the world are the toughest right at the beginning. Similarly for spiritual practice. Maria Duval tells me that even though a person may have the best thoughts to better the quality of life and to connect more with one's partnership with own spirit, it is at the start that a divide must be formed among many other rivalling options so that what did not exist before can be given space within an otherwise squeezed and dedicated life.
Having determined to proceed with such a habit, the initial step that is needed is to: be basic. Embark on you can gain and don't hope to attempt what seems unlikely to do or infeasible to do. Slowly, higher degree of challenge can be appended.
Next, please be creative. What is most crucial in establishing contact with the indwelling Spirit and with the spiritual around oneself is to be in a place that feels sacred, a place that communicates a sense of the higher realms and of the invisible, not a place that is ordinary or filled with the vibrations of others. Allow your creativity to find a way to define or locate a sacred space in which you can create an altar which represents your commitment to your spiritual practice.
Also, be committed. Be obliging to settle in front of your altar and breathe quietly with your hand over your heart center in the center of your chest, allowing your mind to let go of thoughts as best as it can. In beginning, there is no more needed than this: to sit, to breathe, to bring energy to your heart center, to try to empty your mind.
Frequent practice of this very simple kind, whether for fifteen or twenty minutes daily as Maria Duval suggests, will begin to make an inroad into your body's knowledge of what is actually happening. It will begin to open the lines of communication between your everyday physical self and your soul-self that exists as another layer of your being.
30.9.09
Fear Not
Do you feel things are not going your way? Does it ever seem like things aren't going you way? Does it ever seem like you're wondering, "How am I going to get out of this, how am I going to solve this? Why do I have to do this when I'd rather be doing that? How many I going to cope with the losses? How am I going to cope without a job?
Maria Duval says "Fear not". Life is all about attracting of good things in you.
You see, I realized that I had been attracting what I focused on with belief all of my life.
The problem was, in those days, most of what I focused on was what I did not want! Actually, most people make this mistake.
For example, most people are focusing on fear, lack and the negative headlines about world economy and end of world, and so it is no wonder that things continue to take a downward slide. Whenever there is a pullback in stock market, you will see hordes of doomsday analysts talking about "double dip" or another round of job slash.
Well on the whole, if we want to make the world a better place, then we will all need to learn how to think and behave more positively. We can’t just tell people to stop being negative because this will simply strengthen their attitude.
