Shake off Your Stress

 

Living the fast-paced urban life gets on everybody’s nerves. An increasing number of young people are under tremendous stress and distress, which creates numerous physical and mental problems.

 

OSHO’s insight about stress is that we should not take it as something negative. Whenever we think ‘stress’, negative thoughts come into our minds. Most of us think that stress is akin to worry, tension, failure, sadness, pressure—everything negative.

 

However, what we need to do is simply shake it off in an Osho active meditation, called Kundalini. This meditation is done in the evening after office hours. It removes mental blocks and makes you come alive with showers of inner energy. It is particularly beneficial for young and middle-aged women. It has four stages.

Stage I: 15 minutes
Be loose. Let your entire body shake. Feel the energies move up from your feet. Let go everywhere. Become the shaking. Your eyes may be open or closed.

Says Osho, “Allow the shaking; don’t do it. Stand silently, feel it coming on. When your body starts trembling, help it but don’t do it. Enjoy it, feel blissful, allow it, receive it, welcome it—don’t will it. if you force it, it will become an exercise. Then it will be there just on the surface, it will not penetrate you. You will remain solid, stone-like. You will remain the manipulator, the doer; the body will just follow. The body is not the question –you are. When I say shake, I mean your solidity, your rock-like being should shake to its very foundation. Such that it becomes liquid, fluid, such that it melts, flows. And when the rock-like being becomes liquid, your body will follow. Then there is no shake, only shaking. Then nobody does it; it simply happens.”

Stage II: 15 minutes
Dance, any way you feel. Let your entire body move as it wishes to. Again, your eyes can be open or closed

 

Stage III: 15 minutes
Close your eyes. Be very still, sitting or standing. Observe and witness whatever is happening, inside and outside.

 

Stage IV: 15 minutes
Keeping your eyes closed, lie down and be still.