Maria Duval - The ʻTree of the Fruits of Lightʼ

Another technique to hone your creative visualisation from Maria Duval.

1. Find a quiet, well-ventilated place where you wonʼt be disturbed, with suitable lighting that is not too bright. You might want to burn some incense or light a candle. Slip into some loose clothing, ideally in natural fabrics (linen, cotton, wool). Settle yourself down comfortably, back nice and straight, legs and arms uncrossed (this promotes energetic circulation). Use a visual aid (card or material) to help you identify more clearly with the colour youʼre going to be working with – in this case, lemon yellow.

2. Close your eyes and start to relax, to release your tension… free yourself of all cares, all stress. To do this, use your conscious breathing. As you breathe in, slowly and deeply, you are accessing the subtler energies contained in the air… then hold your breath as this air invigorates and purifies all the cells in your body. Now, as you breathe out, expel all your tension onto the purifying flame of the candle… all your fears, your anxieties and all the negativity that is holding you back.

3. Now visualise-imagine a sphere of white light above your head… see it enter you through the crown of your head, purify you and re-energise your whole body… it illuminates your face, then the nape of your neck, your back, your chest, purifying every one of your organs, relaxing your arms, descending down to your legs, then back up your spine, instantly eliminating all tension. Continue breathing slowly and deeply… allow this light-energy to regenerate, harmonize, purify and illuminate your aura. You are now in a receptive state.

4. Visualise the colour lemon-yellow… like a bright ray, the colour lemon penetrates you.. you are sitting down, at the foot of a tree with fruits of light, a lemon tree. You lift your head… its fruits shine above you among the leaves… a cool, aromatic breeze caresses you in the light… the air around the lemons is luminous. Let this lemon colour enter you through the pores of your skin and lift you up, purify you… the energy of the lemon colour runs through you like a breath of freshness… everywhere it passes, it fills you, spilling out from your body into your aura. Your aura fills with joy, with cheer and with light.

5. Take some time to assimilate this light properly… the lemon colour gives you mastery over your self, making you more communicative, inspired and optimistic and promotes the expansion of your consciousness… you have absorbed all the virtues and powers associated with this colour. Then thank the Inner Source that has given you this experience. When you are ready, gradually regain awareness of your body, open your eyes… you feel full of energy, purified and in harmony with life.

Contine to feel blessed :)

The Candle Exercise

Psychic Maria Duval says that the candle exercise is excellent for achieving the level of concentration conducive to good visualisation. Settle yourself down comfortably and steady your breathing so it is calm and relaxed. Close your eyes and, behind the ʻscreenʼ of your closed eyelids, at a point located between the eyebrows, just above the bridge of your nose (third eye), visualise a candle, with strength and determination.

Create a mental image of a candle, first the base in white or coloured wax, the wick, then the blue, gas-like flame and finally the yellow-orange flame, which flickers gently, as if in a light breeze. Keep the image of the object firmly in your mind, without losing your concentration…donʼt allow other thoughts to invade your mind… Once you can manage to maintain a clear image for several minutes, without losing yourself in parasitic thoughts that dissolve the image, you can consider the exercise complete. You have to be able to ʻseeʼ the candle, in as much detail as possible, with your eyes closed.

Maria Duval confirms that this exercise will teach you to create thought-forms and to develop your ʻpsychic visionʼ.

If necessary, you can go through a preliminary stage before you do the exercise. This involves lighting a candle and focusing all your attention on it (at a distance of around 40 centimetres from your face), keeping your eyes open, without blinking. Try to memorise every last detail faithfully. Then close your eyes (before they start watering!): youʼll notice how the image of the candle remains fixed for a moment on the retina of your eye, before gradually dissolving. Before the image totally disappears, recreate the thought-form of that candle using a mental image… In other words, from that point onwards, focus your concentration on the internalized image of the candle within you and visualise it. Imagine a beautiful halo of golden light completely surrounding this candle. Hold this perception for as long as possible.

Persevere with your training: after several attempts, youʼll find youʼre able to hold clearer, more detailed images, for longer and longer periods.

Invigorate the Aura through Creative Visualisation

Through the power of Creative Visualisation, you can purify and invigorate your Aura. This technique to self improve your conscious mind is an excellent method for making colours act ʻinternallyʼ.

The visualisation process at the same time mobilizes the energy of the imagination and the energy of thought, channelling this energy to harmonise the etheric, astral and mental auras within the auric egg.

Visualisation - which concerns mental images in the form of thought – is an invisible, yet highly powerful source of energy. With it we can open a clean, clear connection between the self and the subconscious, in a universal language: the language of images.

Visualising draws on imagination and inventiveness. It is a happy combination of self=suggestion and image: it is seeing in thought, seeing with the eyes of the mind. You already have everything you need to practice visualisation within you. You need no external assistance, just a little time. Visualising involves allowing an internal image to rise up within you, using your mental energy.

This requires some active participation on your part…but it really is worth the effort! Remember that the chakras and subtle bodies react swiftly to the internal images and to the visualisation of the colours.

The exercises youʼll need to do are simple, effective and will allow you to benefit from the full strength of visualisation.

At the start of your apprenticeship, to encourage the infl ux of mental images, promote intuition and increase your capacity for concentration, do this short exercise as a sort of ʻwarm-upʼ: place the fi ngers of your right hand on the top of your head (crown chakra) and the fi ngers of your left hand in the middle of your forehead (3rd eye).

Keep your fingers in this position until you feel a ʻpulseʼ, a tingling or a warming feeling in these two points.