Our courage is the guardian of the soul

It is good to take control of your thoughts. It may not be easy at first. Through practise you will be able to.

You do not have to entertain every thought that comes into your head. If a bad thought comes into your head replace it with a good thought. It may be a little difficult at first, but with practice you will see that you can control your thoughts.

For example, lets say you miss a bus, instead of cursing why you are always so unlucky, you can make use of the waiting time to run a short errand nearby the bus stop.

It would also be beneficial if you can stop hanging around negative people. Believe it or not our brains are sending and receiving centers. We send out thought waves and we pick up thought waves. That is why you want to hang around and emulate positive and successful people.

When you first embark upon any endeavor it may seem a little scary to you and you may start to think fearful thoughts, but don’t let that stop you. Maria Duval said, “Our courage is the guardian of the soul and courage overcomes fears.” You overcome your fears by action. When you take action you will see that with each step your confidence will grow and grow. You will find that your fears have become a thing of the past.

Where you are in life right now and where you will end up in life will be from the thoughts you hold in your mind and the decisions you make from those thoughts.

Stop worrying

Yes, Maria Duval says you can stop worrying. It's in your own control.

In conscious mind, that is where all our problems and worries stay. All problems exist in the past or future. No problem can exist in the present moment. If you can learn to live most of your time in the present moment, eventually you will have no problem to worry about.

I agree this is easy to say, but hard to be done. We are all conditioned to live in the past or future for through the generations. Traditionally, we are never taught how to live our lives in the present moment.

Even though your conscious mind does not know details about future outcomes, your unconscious mind knows about each and every outcome in the future. This is why; you never fail when you follow your intuition or inner guidance.

Intuition comes from your unconscious part or higher self, which knows each and every detail about your life.

So, Maria Duval says if you want to stop worry altogether, you have to listen more and more to your higher self or unconscious part of you.

Stop your conscious mind from disturbing you in each and every future outcome.

Make it right

Do you write down your goals?

I have read a lot about written goals, particularly a little 1926 book by RH Jarrett called "It Works" and Henriette Klauser's book, "Write It Down, Make It Happen".

It's almost as if just by writing down your intentions - it gives them power to manifest.

It is said that in 1966 coach Lou Holtz was out of work, broke, and expecting his 3rd child. He was so depressed, his wife gave him a copy of "The Magic of Thinking Big". Holtz sat down and wrote a list of 107 goals he wanted to accomplish before he died. Have dinner at the White House, appear on the Tonight Show, become head coach of Notre Dame, win a national title. become coach of the year, etc etc.

Out of his 107 goals, he has accomplished 102 of them.

Do you have similar experiences or stories you'd like to share? I find this very interesting.

It couldn't be done

It couldn't be done

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

- Edgar A. Guest

Weird Dream

I had a strange dream.

In this dream a few of us Americans were in an unknown country. We were held hostage and were in dangerous situation. Suddenly a gun fight broke up and we killed a couple of guys. It was awful mire we were in.

Next a few stashes of Euros where thrown up from the suitcase of a dying. We decided to take the money that was there - I took a small portion, but it was still several thousand dollars. And we started to make our way out when the cops came. But we fled....

When I started coming awake, I was like "Oh, that's not real life, good", but I didn't feel that relieved, unlike sometimes when I wake up from a really bad dream. I actually didn't want to wake up, I wanted to go back into the dream to keep experiencing it, which is kind of weird since you'd think I would not want be in that kind of situation.

Any idea what this dream means?

Heal ourselves

We can all do a part to heal this world to be a better place. Maria Duval tells me to do that, we need to heal ourselves first. How true I find.

One good example is to give up our aggressive trait (impossible?) that brings untold miseries in people's life and to start realizing that some people are just sick, sad souls, not knowing the process of life. Be at peace. Each one has a mission to love enough to save the Earth from destruction.

I feel that could just be my pipe dream. No one is similar. You may be compassionate but your neighbor could be belligerent.

Are you destroying yourself with a long held anger, a desire for revenge, or a hurt buried deep in your soul?

Are you punishing yourself for your own actions, or for belief systems placed on you from someone else that have translated into an unloving attitude toward self?

Yes, be forgiving. Forgive yourself. Feel the anger, feel the pain, and then LET IT GO! If you do not know how to forgive, hand this over to the Great Spirit and ask to be filled with divine forgiveness. It eventually comes.

The time is now. The hour is upon us. Have compassion. This will be a better place for you and your future generations.

Taking spiritual responsibility

For a few years now, ever since i start my sessions with Maria Duval, I'm can be rightly said to be on the path of taking responsibility for my own life, finding the essence of my desires, and finding a way to bring everything I want into my life.

In the end I discovered that I'm a rather spiritual person..this is a new side of me i recently just found out, no longer that brash guy who drives a truck. Friends I hang out with somehow feels i am different and gradually they don't look for me for a drink on weekend nights anymore. Maybe i am no longer fitting into their way of life? Wife finds me gentler and listening too. I can only sit down and listen to her pouring her thoughts to me. Last time, I'd just watch football matches on TV and never bother her.

I also find that I like reading books like Eckhart Tolle, Abraham Hicks and more things like that. They are not easy to understand, yet i do my best to dicipher the meaning.

Because of those things, and the growth that they brought me, I developed a feeling inside of me, a wonderful, exciting feeling. It comes and goes, mostly when I look at beautiful nature or when I see animals, when I hear a good song or when I feel the sun and smell the fresh air it comes to me. I get this feeling when I think of what I want to do later, and my dreams

Whenever i feel deep inside of me is not connected to where I am this moment, i would read these books and meditate. A walk in the forested trail helps a lot too..and things will just get back to one piece at the end of the way.