Maria Duval on being Compassionate

Maria Duval says that you experience compassion once you have experienced fear, anger, sadness and joy. When these range of emotions form part of your everyday life, you become more aware of them in other people and begin to understand other people's motives.

Also, because you are no longer in conflict with yourself, you are no longer tempted to threaten the vital space of others. By doing so, you give them the opportunity to stop being invaded by their fears.

In short, you are now able to give people exactly what they need, which automatically opens the door to success and prosperity for you.

What is compassion? Compassion is not always a caress, it is sometimes a slap in the face. Compassion is being able to feel what another person is feeling while remaining sufficiently detached to understand their needs and to know what to do or say.

Maria Duval clarifies that being compassionate means feeling sorry and sad for other people. Being compassionate means giving the other person what they need, which is not always the same as giving them what they want.

Maria Duval on JOY

Maria Duval teaches me that JOY is the expansive energy of dynamic well-being. It brings ecstasy, makes your eyes twinkle, gives you a spring in your foot steps, and makes you exudes radiance. It is instrinsically open, generous and relaxed. Joy comes when your emotional energy is free to react appropriately to the experiences you encounter.

Just think of the natural euphoria that you feel when you are dancing, running or performing any other physical activity, at the point when your whole body is moving on its own, effortlessly and naturally.

Maria Duval stresses that this kind of happiness can only occur when fear, anger and sadness are freely expressed.

Joy is as important as the other emotions, and perhaps even more so. It cures, strengthens and restores confidence in what your inner life should be.

So when you experience joy, spontaneity comes of its own accord, and you no longer avoid the fear of the present by always wanting to be somewhere else, in another situation, in the past or an uncertain future.

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.