Surviving the impacts of negative media

Watching the news can be hazardous to your health don't you think so? And yes, there are really more bad news than good news it seems!

Imagine the uncomfortable feeling of becoming a victim (be it physical or financial or traumatic victim) someday. This will have a negative effect on your outlook in life.

And this is something all of us should prevent from being sculpted in our mindset. The surroundings have a big impact on you. How can you think and grow rich if you're bombarded with messages that relates "how difficult life has become" or "how poor most of us has turned out to be?"
We are all little souls so it could be difficult to be influential on the big stage. Maria Duval says that you can't change your environment, but you certainly can control your mind - through visualisation.

Yes, I advise more people to visualise good things in life, and let go of unhappiness as best as you can do it. I know it sounds unrealistic. Yet that's how the mind works under this big Universe.

Just visualise and imagine, just like you are a little kid again, visualising one day you will step on those fluffy white clouds. Imagine your home as a palace, your simple meal as fine dining gourmet, and your nearby park as your favorite vacation spot. Just imagine. Subconsciously, your thoughts will transform the images into their physical components. It's just that magical, and simple too! So just visualise it!

Personally I feel the media has powerfully influenced everyone of us around. It is nearly impossible to get away from the media influence unless one is totally shut off from the real world. Some of these could be very negative in outlook.

When we grow up in a negative environment, we tend to acquire the traits and characteristics of people around us. For example, those kid soldiers in unrest regions of the world were taught that they were saving the world and saving the truth of the religion. I think this is extremely saddening because their minds had been infiltrated with wrong negative influences.

This just goes to say that anyone who joins in the company of a like-minded group will have a big chance of being influenced by the personality of that group. So what can you do if you're surrounded by people who deviates from your way of thinking?

Maria Duval says that you can't just avoid them. Simply control your mind and learn how to shield out pessimistic comments or suggestions. Moreover, you should be with people who have the same principles and ideologies as you do. You will be more encouraged to continue your dreams if you have a support group or mentor who will prod you to pursue your goals despite the setbacks.

You have the power to make your dreams a reality. Now relax and show the world what stuff you are made of.

Maria Duval - Manifesting Your Desires

Psychic Maria Duval says that manifesting is a superb way to start living the life you wish and dream off.

Maria Duval gives me a this simple plan for manifesting and I will start seeing the changes I desire in my life.

The most important thinking in the first step to being successful at manifesting is to realize that you are a creator!

Yes, that's right, YOU are a creator. You are linked and connected to the universal intelligence, the same intelligence that is responsible for all creation. I like to call it God and he tells us "Ask and You Shall Receive".

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What you verbally ask for is useless unless it is backed by the same thoughts and emotions. The key to manifesting what you want is thinking about it in the sense that you have already achieved it. There must be an absence of doubt and it must be combined with the feelings of accomplishing the request.

Follow these easy steps and begin manifesting the life you want.

First find a quiet place to think about what it is you desire. You must be able to focus all of your attention on your desire, and then follow these three steps.

1. Think - You must think about what it is you desire. Visualize your desire in detail and feel the emotions you would have by accomplishing your desire. It is important to focus only on what it is you desire. This needs to be done daily for a just a few minutes. See yourself as already accomplishing what it is you desire.

2. Speak - Now I am not referring to talking about your dream to all of your friends, family members, and colleagues. It is not good to let people know your inner most desires. Most people will only tell all of the reasons why it can not be done. Don't allow yourself to be exposed to that negativity. What I do mean is to talk about it to yourself and do it in the present tense. Talk about it as if you have already reached your dream and are living the life you want.

3. Act - Lastly, you must act on your desire. It is not enough to just think and talk about it. You must ACT upon it! That means developing a plan and acting on that plan. You must ACT with a never ending perseverance that does not accept failure. If the original plan does not work then tweak the plan and try again. Success comes to those that persevere and are willing to sacrifice to reach their dreams.

Stay focused - think, speak, and act.

If you do your desires will start transforming into realities. Every great achievement started as a thought that evolved into reality by it's owners unrelenting actions. Let your connection to God be a path to manifesting your dreams into reality. "Ask and you shall receive", it can't be any simpler than that.

Start living your new life today by implementing this recipe for manifesting.

Maria Duval - Choice of Words

Maria Duval says that since ancient times it has been known that your word is a cause set in motion. In fact, the universe itself is claimed to have emanated from a single primordial sound. In the science of yoga, it is believed that certain Sanskrit words, known as mantras, can bring about magical results, thus you can secure abundance with a certain mantra, peace with another, and so on.On a more practical level, your word still remains highly potent.

With your words, you can wound someone, sending them into spirals of defeat, and with your words you can heal someone, raising them up from a dismal place to soaring hope and motivation. In fact, the entire field of self-improvement is the transmission of words that will assist others to get a firm perspective and move forward with their lives, fulfilling their dreams and desires.

On a personal level, too, your words affect you. What you say to yourself about anyone or anything affects you, too. If you speak well of someone or something, you bring more of that harmony into your life. And if you speak ill of someone or something, you bring more of that frustration and anger and conflict into your life.

Don't you ever realise that a parent's casual words of remarks can affect the destiny of a child. And the most potent words that a parent can use to affect a child are those spoken at the time of dying...since these are the last words, and the moment is so highly-charged and the awareness so acute, these words become an imperative that the child now feels obligated to never disown.

Words are further charged with the emotion behind them. The stronger the emotion, the more highly charged the words. Many a love affair has fallen by the wayside because of emotionally charged words, which are later regretted.

Despite all this, people use words with the utmost casualness. People wreck their own lives and that of others through the careless use of words. They also accept the words of others as a given truth, when, in fact, all comments by others are merely opinion.

Maria Duval also states that a person can rise from poverty to wealth, from sickness to health, and from loneliness to loving companionship simply through exposing themselves to the most beneficial stream of words.

Words not only steal hearts, but shape reality as well. The earth can be a better place because of your choice of words. You can fill lives with the miracles of your words. You can be an agent for positive change and bring out the best in yourself and others simply by how you use words. Words are psychic shape-shifters...use them wisely.

Learn from mistakes and change the Mindset

Internal defeat is a mindset, where you begin to believe that most new ideas will fail. You might think -"After all, what I tried in last week's Yoga class, failed."

ou will always learn from mistakes. When you see them clearly as a test, examine the results, and study them closely for the reason why they went wrong.

Whether it is a lesson plan, trying mantras, Hot Yoga, Gentle Yoga, a pro shop, or trying anything new, it is better to make mistakes than do nothing at all.

Some of the most successful Yoga teachers, I know, deal with mistakes as part of the learning curve. They turn all of their defeats into learning experiences. This is extremely powerful when you consider the cost of learning anything of value.

After all, what did you spend on your education, so far? Did you think you would stop learning at a certain point in life? Did you learn from your past mistakes? Of course you did, and now you are stronger due to the corrective adjustments, you have made.

When a child learns to ride a bicycle, there are plenty of falls along the way, and then the falling stops. However, even skilled adults fall off bicycles, sometimes.

So, don't take past failures personally. Put them behind you and learn from each one.

Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers had failures, but nobody seems to remember that. Just like them, you are not a failure, but you may have failed in the past, just like they did. When you get down on yourself, look back at what you have accomplished.

When you take on your next project, do the research first, assemble a team, make a full commitment to succeed, and never mentally quit before you start.

Lastly, whenever it is possible, learn from the mistakes of others. This is why Yoga businesses approach me for consulting services: To save money by avoiding known mistakes, pitfalls, and traps.

Maria Duval - Friendship

We are social creatures and all of us cannot live alone, or elsewhere live would be very miserable. We all need a family and friends to socialise with. Friendship is one area which affects how your life will be, the quality of life you lead. Having a group of buddies and friends brightens our lives, especially when there is a common interest being shared. In this friendship circle, you give and you receive in return to maintain a balance.

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Some people find new friends easily when some find it tough. A person with powerful personal magnetism can certainly help you attract more friends and contacts. But to create a fruitful friendship, one needs to do more to maintain this harmony. Certain attitude needs to be adopted.

Maria Duval points out that firstly, you need to forgo a tinge of egocentricity that makes you want to impose your own ways and views without respecting others around you. Trying to force your own ideas on your group of friends and think that you are the leader of the group is a deadly sin when it comes to friendship.

Every person has a value and belief and wants it to be recognised. Similarly, you also have your own belief system hence to force your own beliefs on others will create disharmony. Therefore you must be prepared to accept other people who have different values from you. Respect is very important as you can see. If you are a true friend, you will offer advices, not imposing on others to adopt your mindset.

Someone being a friend to you does not mean you can have the approved authority to impose your ideologies on the friend. Also always remember that all negative feelings will weaken your magnetic power and could end up getting it destroyed forever.

Remember, in a friendship, do not try to get all the limelight, do not embarrass friends purposely, do not spread rumours, and have respect for each of your buddies.

Maria Duval - Money as Energy

The more you develop your sense of personal worth, the higher and greater evolution on the spiritual level, and the more prosperity will smile and take care of you. When this happens, you will be inside a magic cycle where your money will attract even more money.

Maria Duval points out that the proof of this is that all the Initiates and spiritual Masters lead a bountiful life and existences. They have a particular attitude towards money, which is a mindset and it is a spiritual mindset. In this mindset, money is not earned by working, but money gets attracted to you naturally!

For as long as you see money purely as a material thing, you will always be afraid that you won't have enough of it! You can't think of money as a gift from the heaven as this makes you too anxious to receive it!

Money is an energy and it must circulate. It is there to be shared and a manifestation of love. It is also a form of universal cosmic energy "condensed" into matter.

Maria Duval says that to understand how money can flow to you easily, you have to understand that it is actually a reward for a service given. Hence the word service is used in its broadest sense.

It also concerns both service you do to yourself by honouring your divine nature, by valuing and respecting yourself, and the services you render to others, in terms of help, sharing and compassion.

Maria Duval - Money is Spiritually Divine

It is essential that we need to identify the right kind of attitude towards money and regard it as an energy force that we have to learn to master it here in this world. Remember that it is closely related with personal worth and self image.

Using money correctly doesn't mean rejecting it but rather using it differently, in line with your personal worth.

Money influences us in every stage of our life. During younger days, we use money to satisfy our needs for more materialistic items. As we grow up, we start to plan for milestones in life like study, marriage, career, and family. Money is needed for each of these stages in life. While we get more stable in life, we pursue more idealisitc goal like political, religious, ecological or other. And we spend more time working towards those goal.

Maria Duval says that during the first phases of use, we spend money on purely material aims, the majority of people stay at this level of awareness of money energy; they "stagnate" in their evolution and this is why they are incapable of developing a wealthy and prosperous mindset.

When you understand the fact that money by its very own nature is "divine" and the owner is the one who gives it the life, the precious power of spiritual awakening will be automatically activated. Through this activation, other inert aspirations in us will be aroused and we will start looking at money with a new angle.