People usually divide their life into two areas: working and relaxing. They think it is impossible to relax and feel peaceful while working or doing any activity. This fallacy has deprived most people of meditation. If they have to steal some time away from their busy work schedule for meditation it is not going to happen ever. Given today’s hectic lifestyle, everybody needs a dose of meditation because life has become so stressful that if they don’t get a meditation pill to calm their nerves their tensions will translate into physical ailments.
Osho has devised many short meditations for the modern man. They are as easy as popping a pill.
For instance, you are going for an important meeting, or you are bored to death listening to a long presentation, or you feel suffocated working in the cramped office. What would you do? Don’t carry this irritation inside the heart or in the body. While you are in this situation try this Osho meditation.
If you can, close your eyes, but if you cannot, that too is ok. Start with exhaling as deeply as you can, throw the air out. After exhaling deeply take the belly in and remain in the position for few seconds. Don’t inhale! Let the air be out, and don’t inhale for a few seconds. Then allow the body to inhale.
Inhale deeply as much as you can. Again stop for few seconds. The gap should be the same as you retain the breath out. If you retain for three seconds, retain the breath in for three seconds. Exhale totally and inhale totally, and make a rhythm. Immediately you will feel a change coming into your whole being. With the throwing of the air the mood will be thrown out too.
What happens is that as you start creating this rhythm, your mind is diverted from your problem. You cannot be angry because your mind is now filled with this new activity. You are completely absorbed in it so the cooperation with anger is broken.
Secondly, this type of exhaling and inhaling cleanses the whole body. When you empty your lungs and don’t inhale for few seconds the whole body throws all that is poisonous into the blood. A gap is created in the body. In that gap all the poisonous gases get mixed with breathing so with the next exhalation they are thrown out. Your mind becomes calm because breath and the mind affect each other closely.
By doing this for a few minutes you will find suddenly that the situation is the same but you have changed — you become peaceful and relaxed amidst the whole chaos.
Amrit Sadhana is in the management team of Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune. She facilitates meditation workshops around the country and abroad.
