MEDITATION

Simple techniques to meditative awareness
Meditative awareness can be of immense help in facing reality and not moving away from it into our imagination or even escaping into ones ‘religious’ sanctuary



The more we care for our well-being the easier it will be for us to live even within the dysfunctional environments. Once we involve ourselves in the process of staying healthy in our life we can recognise the fact that whatever is happening in any moment is what we need to address it there and then – sensitively and intelligently. Meditative awareness, Osho points out, can be of immense help in facing reality and not moving away from it into our imagination and justifying ourselves, or even escaping into ones ‘religious’ sanctuary.



Meditation is one of the many of interventions now being increasingly recommended by physicians. The medical profession is now acknowledging the need for meditation for providing an effective alternative treatment. It is now being accepted that the science of the outer needs to interface with the science of the inner with a rhythmic breathing practice – where the breath comes in and the breath goes out. In Osho’s words, breath is the bridge between the body and the soul.



Osho suggests the following simple techniques which is very important and helpful to learn meditation and these are:

Whenever you find time relax your breathing for a while
Nothing else needs to be done; no need to relax the whole body. Weather seated in a train, in a plane or in a car simply relax your breathing. No one would ever come to know what you are doing and trying to do
Let the breathing of yours go on naturally; you just close your eyes and watch the breath going in and coming out
No need to concentrate while breathing otherwise any sound, person sitting next to you can become a disturbance. Meditation is not concentration – it is simply awareness
Be relaxed and watch your breathing without trying to exclude anything. The car making noise, traffic on the road, person next to you snoring – accept all
Nothing needs to be avoided; just an accepting awareness will do