Maria Duval on Meditation

By controlling and observing your breathing, you will soon achieve a good state of physical relaxation. But your head will, in all likelihood, still be bothered by a mental discourse with an intermingling of words, thoughts and images, all snatching for the owner's keen focus.

Forbid your attention to be drawn to any of these words, thoughts or images by trying to 'clear' your mind. Maria Duval's suggestion to help you achieve this state of mind is that you focus your mind on one specific thing, a thing that is preferably pleasant of course, while disappearing everything else around this thing.

Meditation relaxes the body and the mind, relieving the stress or tension, soothing your nerves and permitting you to overcome your bad negative emotional attachments like fear, sadness, hatred, bitterness or anger.

Maria Duval says that by keeping your mind on something nice and calming, you will be freed immediately of any feelings of guilt, insecurity, or powerlessness.

Concentration on a symbol, a color, an object, the candle flame, an image or maybe an interesting question or pick something that best suits your state of mind that moment. The main aim is to achieve a state of mind where space and time just never already exist. This is what spiritualists called 'altered state of consciousness'.