Gibberish and Let-Go
"Gibberish is to get rid of the active mind, silence to get rid of the inactive mind and let-go is to enter into the transcendental." Osho
First Stage: Gibberish
While sitting, close your eyes and begin to say nonsense sounds – any sounds or words, so long as they make no sense. Just speak any language that you don't know! Allow yourself to express whatever needs to be expressed within you. Throw everything out. The mind thinks, always, in terms of words. Gibberish helps to break up this pattern of continual verbalization. Without suppressing your thoughts, you can throw them out. Let your body likewise be expressive.
Second Stage: Moving In
After some minutes of Gibberish, there is a drumbeat, at which point the Gibberish stops. Osho’s voice then guides the listener into a space of deep silence, stillness and relaxation, saying, for example, “Be silent, close your eyes...no movement of the body – feel frozen. Go inwards, deeper and deeper, just like an arrow. Penetrate all the layers and hit the center of your existence.”
Third Stage: Let-Go
Another drumbeat and, without arranging yourself, just allow yourself to fall down "like a bag of rice," so you are lying, utterly still and relaxed, on your back as you are guided even more deeply into a silent stillness.
Fourth Stage: Coming Back
At the final drumbeat, Osho’s voice guides you back to a sitting position, with the reminder to carry the glimpse of silent awareness one may have had into everyday activities.
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An ancient Taoist practice that gives a simple way to activate a healthy state of mind, body and spirit.
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Divine Nutrition Program – Jasmuheen
1. Sit quietly and imagine that you are in your body, as if your mind has taken you inside somehow and you see your lungs before you.
2. Imagine beaming a great big smile at your lungs and at the same time
3. think how thankful you are for the job that your lungs have been doing for you your whole life – filtering the air you breath, extracting the chi or pranic particles from the atmosphere around you.
4. Say over and over to your lungs as you smile at them, “I love you, I love you, I love you” and/or “thank you, thank you, thank you”.
5. Do this with your brain, then your heart, then your kidneys, your liver and your sexual organs until you have smiled at every organ in your body.
6. Do this daily and soon your organs will begin to feel appreciated and loved and will co-operate quickly with your new programming codes.
Step 1: Breathe From the Mouth
Osho - “Relax the lower jaw and let your mouth open just slightly. Start breathing from the mouth, but not deeply. Just let the body breathe so it becomes more and more shallow. And when you feel that the breath has become very shallow and your mouth is open and jaw relaxed, your whole body will feel very relaxed.
Step 2: Feel a Smile
Osho - “In that moment, start feeling a smile — not on your face but all over your being — and you will be able to. It is not a smile that comes on the lips; it is an existential smile that spreads just inside. Try and you will know what it is, because it cannot be explained. No need to smile with your lips on your face but just as if you are smiling from the belly, the belly is smiling.
“And it is a smile, not a laugh, so it is very very soft, delicate, fragile — like a small rose opening in the belly and the fragrance spreading all over the body.
“Once you have known what this smile is, you can remain happy for twenty-four hours a day. And whenever you feel that you are missing that happiness, just close your eyes and catch hold of that smile again, and it will be there. In the daytime as many times as you want, you can catch hold of it. It is always there.”
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Divine consciousness is omnipresent. In order to attune one’s consciousness to it, it is necessary first to expand the mind by meditation on some aspect of God's infinite nature. Visualization is not realisation; but visualization is an effective aid in deepening one's concentration, which is essential for the deep meditation that yields realisation. The following exercise in visualization and mental expansion given by Paramahansa Yogananda will be found helpful in preparing the mind to practice the scientific techniques of meditation.
"Sit upright. Focus your gaze and your mind at the Christ Consciousness centre between the eyebrows. Fill your heart with joy. Behold! The sphere of darkness that you see with closed eyes is becoming a sphere of light and joy. This sphere is enlarging. Now it is bigger than your body. Go on expanding the sphere of joy and light. Your home and everyone in it are present in the sphere of light that you are beholding. Go on expanding it until you see your whole city in this sphere of light and joy. Ever increasing, the sphere of light and joy is encompassing the entire country, and still it is expanding, including Europe, Asia, the world! See the world bathed in the light of this peaceful sphere of joy. The earth appears as a little ball moving in the vast sphere of light and joy. The sphere is becoming even larger; see! Our planetary and stellar system, the Milky Way, and island galaxies, like little bubbles, are floating in it.
Expand the sphere of light and joy within you, in which all things are moving, glimmering like the lights of a city. Meditate on and try to be one with that joy. God is joy, and we must find Him through joy. The scriptures say: 'Thou art That. ‘Your Self is one with this vast sphere of light that is your Father. You are this sphere of light and joy! Meditate on that. You have no boundaries--eternity above, below, everywhere. In this eternal sphere of light and joy all things are moving. Mentally affirm: 'In me worlds are floating like bubbles. I and my Father are One.'
Now open your eyes. Look at the body and see how little it is! Close your eyes and realize again that you are not the body. You are the eternal sphere of light and joy in which all things have their being. Go on meditating, mentally affirming: 'I am the cosmic sphere of light, of joy, of love, in which worlds and universes are floating like bubbles. My Father is this cosmic sphere of light; my Father and I are One. I am not the body; I am the eternal sphere of light. Aum. Aum. Amen."
BREAK THE OLD PATTERN of present-moment denial and present moment resistance. Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life.
PRESENCE IS THE KEY to freedom, so you can only be free now.
FORGET ABOUT YOUR LIFE SITUATION and pay attention to your life.
Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now.
Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.”
Find the "narrow gate that leads to life." It is called the Now. Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem now?
USE YOUR SENSES FULLY. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don’t interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. Listen to the sounds; don’t judge them. Listen to the silence underneath the sounds. Touch something - anything - and feel and acknowledge its Being. Observe the rhythm of your breathing; feel the air flowing in and out, feel the life energy inside your body. Allow everything to be, within and without. Allow the “isness” of all things. Move deeply into the Now.
FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON THE NOW and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
WHEN YOU CREATE A PROBLEM, you create pain. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: No matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.
ASK YOURSELF: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle,
If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. "How" is always more important than "what." See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.
DO NOT BE CONCERNED WITH THE FRUIT OF YOUR ACTION - just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.
WHEN YOU HAVE HAD YOUR FIRST FEW GLIMPSES OF THE TIMELESS STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, you begin to move back and forth between the dimensions of time and presence. First you become aware of just how rarely your attention is truly in the Now. But to know that you are not present is a great success. That knowing the presence - even if initially it only lasts for a couple of seconds of clock time before it is lost again.
Then with increasing frequency, you choose to have the focus of your consciousness in the present moment rather than in the past or future, and whenever you realize that you had lost the Now, you are able to stay in it not just for a couple of seconds, but for longer periods as perceived from the external perspective of clock time.
So before you are firmly established in the state of presence, before you are fully conscious, you shift back and forth for a while between consciousness and unconsciousness, between the state of presence and the state of mind identification. You lose the Now, and you return to it, again and again. Eventually presence becomes your predominant state.
In The Art of Joyful Living (pp. 128-129), Swami Rama suggests that one develop thirty goals for thirty days, and pick one for each day. These should be small points, but things you work on steadily. For example, you may decide that today you are not going to lie. That does not mean that you will redouble your lies tomorrow, but rather, that today your whole thinking process is about this: that you are not going to lie. You never claim that you will be able to speak the total Truth, but simply decide that you are not going to consciously lie.
If you adopt thirty points to work on for thirty days, you can just watch what you have accomplished in thirty days’ time. The point is not, for instance, whether you have lied or not lied: it is that you have built your willpower. This is the real process of building willpower. After thirty days you will conclude, “Yes, I have done what I wanted to do.” But do not choose big principles that you cannot fulfill—that is destructive. Instead, select little things.
Later, you may want to do this experiment of “thirty goals for thirty days” using a separate list of goals which you make up yourself, but for now, you will find the following to be a useful practice. You might want to write a few words or sentences each day about what you have observed. Start by using the number on the list which matches today’s date. Check-off the goal at the end of the day.
1. Lovingly serve others today.
2. Observe one of the yamas (non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence or Brahmacharya, non-materialism), directing your actions and speech, while observing your thoughts.
3. Allow your actions to come from conscious choice rather than as a result of habit.
4. Observe one of the niyamas (purity, contentment, training senses, self-study, surrender)
5. Observe all of your actions and ask yourself, “why am I doing this action?”
6. Observe one of the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, space), externally and internally.
7. Witness everything, external and internal.
8. Observe one of the five cognitive senses (hearing, touching, seeing, tasting, smelling).
9. Be aware of your breath today, noticing its qualities and how it relates to thoughts and emotions.
10. Observe one of the five active senses (speaking, grasping, moving, reproducing, eliminating).
11. Notice how fears can control you, and how fears are related to imagination.
12. Observe one of the four functions of mind (manas, chitta, ahamkara, buddhi).
13. Speak very little today—only what is accurate, purposeful, and non-hurting.
14. Observe your reactions when a desire, expectation, want, or need is or is not fulfilled.
15. Observe your gestures and body language, noticing how they reflect thoughts and emotions.
16. Observe one of the yamas (non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence or Brahmacharya, non-materialism), directing your actions and speech, while observing your thoughts.
17. Practice one-pointedness, paying attention to whatever you are doing today.
18. Observe one of the niyamas (purity, contentment, training senses, self-study, surrender)
19. Resolve that today “I will love everyone and not hate anyone today.”
20. Observe one of the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, space), externally and internally.
21. Observe whether your “first thoughts” or “second thoughts” are good or bad, clear or clouded.
22. Observe one of the five cognitive senses (hearing, touching, seeing, tasting, smelling).
23. Be aware of the principle of meditation in action.
24. Observe one of the five active senses (speaking, grasping, moving, reproducing, eliminating).
25. Be aware of how you adjust to changing circumstances around you.
26. Observe one of the four functions of mind (manas, chitta, ahamkara, buddhi).
27. Observe how you relate to other people.
28. Observe your reactions when a desire, expectation, want, or need is or is not fulfilled.
29. Notice which thoughts coming into your mind are “useful” or “not useful.”
30. Choose one of the primitive fountains (food, sleep, sex, self-preservation) and observe how it
affects your other desires, emotions, thoughts, speech, and actions.
31. Witness everything, external and internal (in months which have 31 days).
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This simple yoga technique will help detoxify and cleanse your body, stimulate digestion, and get your digestive system to work at its optimum level.
Instructions:
- Stand and bend slightly forward from the waist. Keeping the back straight. Rest your hands on your knees, with thumbs facing inward and pointing towards each other. Make sure the arms are straight.
- Now, breathe in deeply. Exhale completely and hold your breath.
- While holding breath in this position, contract or expand out your abdominal muscles in and out. This should be done rapidly while holding the exhaled position. Do not inhale.
- Do this as many times as possible and then slowly inhale. This is one round.
- Beginners can begin with 5 rounds.
- * This is best when practiced in the mornings on empty stomach after emptying the bowels and avoid during pregnancy, menstruation, or after abdominal operations. Consult your doctor first if you have any disease of the intestine or pancreas.
Benefits of Agnisar Pranayama:
- Agnisar pranayama increases the internal energy and gives vitality.
- Those who are suffering with constipation, indigestion and loss of appetite they should get good benefits with its regular practice.
- People with excessive fat on the stomach should practice it regularly to reduce the fat.
- This pranayama overcomes laziness, disinterest and strengthens the internal organs, muscles, nerves and blood veins.
- People suffering with lung problems can gain a lot. This pranayama cures asthma, tuberculosis and other serious diseases.
- It also cures the entire throat related problems and old kapha problems.
- It cures sleepiness and circulates inner energy.
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