Coming Home to Yourself by Osho

Author:Osho
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2020-04-27T23:00:00+00:00

Just by understanding it, you suddenly see great peace settling inside. And with that peace is the beginning of a radical change, of a revolution, of a new birth.

The Method

Relax Before Going to Sleep

“I feel a certain restlessness, particularly in my arms. It feels as if I need to do something energetic. What can I do to settle this restlessness?”

Every night, sit in a chair and rest your head, as you do in a dentist’s chair. You can use a pillow, so you are in a resting posture. Then release your lower jaw, just relax it so the mouth opens slightly, and start breathing from the mouth, not from the nose. But the breathing has not to be changed, it has to be just as it is—natural. The first few breaths will become a little hectic. By and by it will settle down and the breathing will become very shallow. It will go in and out very slightly; that’s how it should be. Keep the mouth open, eyes closed, and rest. Then start feeling that your legs are becoming loose, as if they are being taken away from you, broken at the joints. Feel as if they are being taken away from you, they have been cut loose, broken off, and then start thinking that you are just the upper part: the legs are gone.

Then the hands: think that both the hands are becoming loose and being taken away from you. You may even be able to hear a click inside when they are broken off. You are no longer your hands—they are dead, taken away. Just the torso remains. Then start thinking about the head—it is being taken away, you are being beheaded, the head is broken off. Leave it loose: wherever it turns—right, left—you cannot do anything. Just leave it loose; it has been taken away. Then you have just your torso.

Feel that you are only this much—the chest, the belly, that’s all. Do this for at least twenty minutes, and then go to sleep. This is to be done just before sleep, for at least three weeks.

It is just that your body is not aligned; the energy is not proportionately distributed. Taking each part as separate, only the essential will remain, so your whole energy will move within the essential part. That essential part will relax, and the energy will start flowing again in your legs, in your hands, in your head, in a more proportionate way. A new distribution of energies is needed. It is always energy being more in one part, less in another, that makes you feel lopsided. So your hands must be getting more energy than other parts. Then you want to do something with your hands, and if you cannot find anything to do, you can become angry. The hands get angry if they have too much energy: when they cannot do anything, they want to destroy. Either they create or they destroy. If you can create, good; if you cannot create, then destruction.

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