Maria Duval on Sadness

Maria Duval explains that sadness is the emotional relaxation or release that occurs when your expectations and wishes are not fulfilled. The tension of expectation and intention melt like snow in the sun. Sadness hurts because it implies letting go of something you are attached to and a sense of loss that you have to live with.

We all know the outward signs of sadness: a dejected expression or "long" face, a hunched back, slumped shoulders, arms hanging by the sides, feet dragging along the ground and poor diction. It is as if the person's entire body is "fading".

We obviously combat sadness with all our might because we want to be happy. And we conclude that to be happy we have to avoid sadness. In fact, it is quite the opposite; it is only by accepting the inevitability of sadness that we can achieve true happiness. For sadness is the healthy way to react to the inevitable disappointments of life.

Hence Maria Duval says that sadness therefore brings you into contact with the most vulnerable part of yourself. It is an energy of release, like a storm that breaks the tension and clears the air. It is beneficial emotion which is essentially to enable your being to remain fluid and able to respond to the changes that occur in life.

So it is important to realise that it is never desirable to repress your real wishes and aspirations simply to avoid the suffering that occurs if they are not fulfilled. By avoiding sadness, you only experience a superficial happiness and lead the kind of "mechanical" life that sometimes conceals a subjacent depression.

Lastly, Maria Duval thinks that when life disappoints you and denies your dearest wishes, sadness is an appropriate response since its purifying energy releases the rest of your emotions. And when you learn to express your sadness, you will find that JOY will make a grand appearance in your life!

Transforming Your Anger

Psychic Maria Duval explains that anger is a emotional reaction we possess to guard your integrity when you feel your personal borders have been intruded, or invaded. Anger is a reactive way of saying NO to an injustice or a violation.

Justified anger is immediate, clear and requires no explanation. It is like a bared teeth of a lioness protecting her catch. Real anger is focused on a very specific object and is perfectly justified. By expressing it, you expose what is unsuitable and defend your integrity in a way that is beneficial to everyone concerned.

Anger, if uncontrolled, is highly destructive and can lead to social, national and family tragedies and wars. Therefore anger is the most repressed emotion in our society.

Maria Duval says if only we learn to get angry in the right way protecting our territory against a real threat of invasion, anger would be an appropriate response, a suitable reaction to resolve the challenges we are facing, a remedy devoid of negative effects. Instead, it tends to be a chronic illness whose powerlessness is ultimately destructive.

Anger if express appropriately can be transformed to a feeling of compassion because you will understand what drive the other person to cross your "borders".

Some ways to transform anger to compassion.

- Hit your pillows with your mighty strength.
- Take a deep breath.
- Shout out loudly by the seaside.
- Writing "angry" letters.

The purpose is to release the pent-up lousy feeling deep inside you. To get rid of this gush of negative energy that can be harmful. Once this is released, you can somehow understand and empathise why the other party makes you angry in the first place.

Try it and you'll learn something uniquely special.

Maria Duval on Fear

Maria Duval writes that the emotion of fear is useful, and also indispensable. It allows you to be on your guard, catapults your senses and intensifies your awareness. She suggests to treat fear as your friend who may act as a radar for you that picks up on everything and guides you on your journey through life.

It is the basic instinct of human survival, on the physical, mental and spiritual level. It is vital to have a very acute sense of what can constitute a threat to your well-being. Sensitive, well-adjusted antenna indicate any form of danger, enabling you to identify the threats as they occur and to deal with them.

But the danger signals emitted by fear are suffocated if you have developed a form of behaviour designed to deny or suppress this emotion. By not paying attention to these particular signals of fear, this energy is dispersed and transformed into a general paranoia, a sort of ever present "chronic mistrust".

This is the reason Maria Duval says why people are subconsciously transfixed by fear. They are as it was afraid of fear, which prevents them transforming it into positive energy.

Suddenly, there fear is everywhere. Like fear of retrenchment, fear of losing loved ones, fear of death. Some people even fear of success, being too happy, fear of the truth, and all kinds of mind boggling phobias you can imagine of.

Have you ever noticed how unexpressed fear grips you at the throat, neck, lower back, shoulders, stiffen your jaws, furrows the brow and locks the knees?

Maria Duval says various parts of the body bear the mark of fear. But we are so used to it that we are not paying attention the messages that have been conveyed. This blinds our vital energy and affects our positive emotions.

There is no need to be fearful. Instead give your inherent fears the attention they deserve and allow them to express themselves as and when they occur. In this way, Maria Duval believes energy can be released in a right manner.

Maria Duval - Learning to relax

Maria Duval's "instant relaxation" technique.

This technique allows you to restore your energy anywhere and at anytime, and it can be done in a short time like a few minutes.

To perform this technique, first of all you need to settle down comfortably, or you can lay down. Close your eyes and carry out an isometric contraction of all your muscles and then breath deeply.

With each exhalation, let your tiredness, worries and tensions flow out through your heels into the depths of the earth.

Pause at the end of each exhalation, before allowing the air to flow back into your lungs bringing tranquility, peace and calmness.

During the pause after each inhalation, "feel" the space within your whole body.

Next visualise yourself in an "idea" relaxing environment, like sea, river, forest, meadow, mountain, cave, or waterfall, where you can stay completely relaxed. You can visualise about the singing oriole at the near side of the river, the figure-like white clouds at the far sky, periodic splashing of the wave at the beach rocks, a peaceful garden with light breeze or two meters underneath a coral atoll.

At this place, use the energy of colours to restore your energy. For example, imagine a beautiful rainbow: breath in the colour as if the air you were breathing was coloured - which corresponds to your needs of the moment and allow it to spread through your body.

Next, Maria Duval teaches that as you breath out, let it flow out through your heels. Return to everyday reality by stretching fully.

This is the "instant relaxation" technique which you can use to recharge your batteries with physical and mental energy is just a few minutes. Try it. It is quite effective.

Walking for fitness

Maria Duval suggests that walking is a great form of workout in which people can use to shape up their health and vitality. Everyone needs to work so why don't make use of this often forgotten activity to train our bodies for more mobility, harmony and vitality? The repeated and regular contact with the ground recharges your nervous spiritual side of you.

There are some good times to walk. The best times are sunrise and sunset times, since the earth's electromagnetic energy is great at these times than at any other time of the day.

If possible and allowable, try to walk barefoot in the garden to feel the wet morning grass or feeling the softness of a sandy beach. This is a very good way to build up your lost body energy. Contact with the earthly elements will help you replenish this lost energy. As your barefoot comes in contact with the earth, you can feel a rush of energy going up your body through your feet.

Hence Maria Duval advises that we should walk in a natural environment as often as you can, in country side, forest, by a river, seaside, or mountains.

A fifteen to twenty minutes' walk each day is a very good method to keep yourself fit and in an excellent condition. This is not very strenuous hence there is no excuse to say you are not suitable for sports.

Maria Duval - Creative Magic

There are many forms of psychic magic. It has existed for thousands of years in human history in different tribes or cultures or schools.

Some magics are old and famous.While other kinds of magic as just as ancient and yet hard to understand. Some people mistakenly think that just because a form of magic is older it means that it is more powerful. Maria Duval says this is not true.

All magic was created by human beings. It is an important part of humanity and human way of life, since we are all spiritual. It is the most primitive way of connecting with the mysterious spiritual plane.

It is the oldest way of explaining the unexplained. It is also the oldest means of realizing our inner power and interacting with the forces of nature that surround us.

We exist in an Universe of perpetual change where matters are constantly shifting from one form to the next. It is a reality that is temporal in nature. The only thing that is not temporary is the Source from which all things come from. This is the energy that binds all things as a unified whole. It is from this source energy that ideas are formed and new magics are born. It is the very source of our creativity.

Maria Duval regards the most powerful magic that can be performed is that which is created by you alone. That is Creative Magic, and is the most potent form of magic in existence. We all possess the ability to create new things. We can use the unlimited potential of our imagination to create works of great wonder and beauty that enhance the world around us. Creative magic is a powerful and transformative form of art that connects us to the very roots of our humanity and spirituality.

As we grow and evolve we consciously awaken to new realizations and ideas. Because of this, it makes sense that the forms of magic that we use must also change. We can use our creative power to forge new and powerful magics that flow straight from the source. This magic can be used to enhance our lives and transform our world.

By using the elements that surround us we can create new magical tools, symbols, and even words. We can also find ways to incorporate them into the practices of old. There is no limit to the ways in which new magic can be created. The only limit exists within your imagination.

Maria Duval - developing your vitality

A very basic principle - you must ensure and be responsible to yourself to make every effort to keep your body healthy and fit. The purpose is to free yourself from illness, tiredness and pain as far away as you possible can.

This means you are able to experience the power of BEING.

Maria Duval believes that your body is the expression of your life; your body is your Bible, your history and wiki. In fact, everything that happens to you in life is recorded and "shown" by your body.

Wisdom is also written into your body - into each of your cell that makes you up - and this is wisdom, which comes from the divine creation. Your body knows this instinctively and it feels its divine origins.

The close relationship between your inner life like your moods, frame of mind, psychological disposition, mental attitudes, thoughts or emotions, and your body is indivisible, inevitable and unavoidable.

In other words, the marriage between your body and mind can never end in divorce.

But Maria says in order for this union to be happy and successful, you must respect the needs of your body, look after it and love it like your best trove of treasures.

Majority of people live alongside themselves, in their head, memories and ignore the needs of their body, rather like absent landlords. The main reason is that most people live a sedentary life, an "illness" that involves spending most of their time sitting or lying down. The encouraging thing is that more and more people are starting to realise the need for an active mental or physical life.

Maria Duval says you don't have to slug it out at a gym or running everyday. Just spending 30 minutes a few times a week of brisk walking will be enough to improve your vitality. It can be walking to your office or walking back home after work.

As much as possible, we should try to recreate that "moments of childhood" in our adult lives, so that we are re-experience the thrills of exploring the five physical senses. Through exercise, we release the tensions accumulated in our bodies, freeing us in the process.

Be beautiful, strong, mobile and supple.