Once the threat passed their nervous system would come back into a state of relaxation (if they survived). It would pump adrenaline into the blood to signal our ancestors to run away from a predator. In the days of our primal ancestors, the body’s stress system (which is our ‘fight or flight‘ mechanism) was only activated during physical threats. Through this form of active meditation we have the potential to reach long lasting states of relaxation by removing stress from our physical bodies. Meditators report effects ranging from better stress management and effective stress reduction over increased inner peace and more clarity and focus to improved physical, mental and emotional health. Integrate everything that happened during the first three stages of this active meditation, peacefully resting.Īs explained above, this form of active meditation has many benefits, as it aims at awakening the kundalini energy and is designed for our modern busy everyday lives. Very similar to Savasana, corpse pose in yoga, just lie down and let go of everything - simply be. In this stage, lie down, keep your eyes closed and be still. Witness whatever is happening inside and out.Īfter the active stages it will be much easier to quiet the mind and enjoy all the benefits of meditation, letting the energy flow through you. In this stage, close your eyes and be still, sit down on a meditation pillow and simply observe. During the shaking we were able to really let go of all the tension and blockages, so now the energy can flow freely and we can enjoy the pure bliss of dancing.Īfter the first two active stages, we are now moving into the silent stages.
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Let your inner child be free and playful. Use the space if you feel like it and dance with big or small movements. There is no right or wrong, simply move however it feels good. In the second stage the meditator dances. It can be difficult in the beginning to simply shake, but when we are not trying to force anything and just welcome whatever happens then the shaking will naturally start. Osho explains shaking as follows: “There is no shaker, only shaking nobody is doing it, it is simply happening. The important part in this stage is that we (our minds) are not trying to control the shaking, but that we just let our bodies do the shaking without any expectations.
Just let your body loose and allow the shaking. The first stage is meant to free our body from any blockages it might hold, no matter if they are physical or energetic. When awakened, for example by an Osho Active Meditation, it can purify and transform physical, mental, emotional and spiritual blockages. When activated, it rises along the spine and with it consciousness rises as well. Kundalini energy is our life-force energy located at the base of the spine. The different stages of the meditation are also designed to activate our kundalini energy. The last two stages consisting of sitting and lying in stillness enable all this accumulated energy from the first two stages to flow vertically and to move upwards to address and remove any present obstacles. Wherever the energy flow has been repressed and blocked, moving will help to transform it into bliss and joy. The shaking and dancing of the first two stages help to move stagnant energy. In order to prepare our bodies to sit in stillness, we need to move them first. Real meditation starts only when you are at rest“. First throw those things out so you come to a natural state of rest. The moment you will sit silently, you will see all sorts of things moving inside you you will feel it's almost impossible to be silent. Only then are we able to sit in stillness and focus completely on the benefits of a silent meditation.Īs Osho puts it: "Just sitting directly in silence won't help. Hence, to quiet our monkey minds from the disturbing thoughts of the day, we first have to move, to come back into our bodies, back into the here and now. We are also facing way more mental and emotional stress but we are don’t have the ability to physically let go of it. We certainly do not physically move as much as our ancestors. Five days a week, we are constantly sitting on our desks. The idea is that in our time, we need a little preparation to come into stillness. The total duration of the meditation is 60 minutes, with each stage lasting 15 minutes. The meditation is split into four stages, two are active (shaking and dancing) and to are ‚passive‘ (sitting and lying down). With this in mind he developed a now famous meditation technique called Osho Active Meditation (also known as Osho Kundalini Meditation). The Indian spiritual leader Rajneesh, later on better known to the world as Osho, was convinced that in our modern day and age, we need a different form of meditation than simply sitting quietly on a pillow, not moving and exploring our breath.