What is Prayer?

Prayer is communicating with your Higher Power as you understand Him. This can be done verbally or non-verbally, formally or non-formally. To be more specific, prayer means TALKING to our Higher Power – sharing our burdens, admitting our wrongs, asking for help, and expressing our gratitude.

What is Meditation?

Meditation is silently listening to the Higher Power of your understanding. It’s a time for reflection. It is a time to be seriously in touch with oneself. This is the only time you do very little talking.

Recovery is a process that is lived one day at a time. Each of these days should involve prayer and meditation. Learning to meditate, which means taking the time every day to reflect on the things that happen to you, what you learned, and what you might like to do differently. Processing your experiences and emotions can help you learn to change for the better.

SUGGESTIONS TO HELP IN PRAYER AND MEDITATION

 Plan for prayer and meditation at least 15 -30 minutes every day.

 Find a quiet place where you won’t be distracted.

 Use a straight backed chair so that your spine is comfortably straight.

 Concentrate on your breathing; it should be slow and regular.

 Beware of thoughts, feelings, obligations, or other things that block meditation and find ways to put them aside.

 Use affirmation, prayer, or other mediation writings that have been helpful to you in the past.

 Use other resources recommended by your sponsor and other people in the program whom you trust.

HOW TO MEDITATE

Be Still Technique.

 Go to a place where you can be alone.

 Be still and comfortable.

 Remind yourself that you are important, unique, special, and divine.

 Remind yourself that the breath of God was first breathed into you.

 Focus on any part of your body or an aspect of creation that you enjoy, either look at it, touch it or imagine it.

 Be grateful, bring into your mind, a word that you value, for a moment, explore that word, bringing its energy into your life e.g. peace, love, serenity, joy, etc.

 Concentrate on breathing in and out, breathing that word into your being.

Even though prayer and meditation might sound mystical at first, with practice you’ll see a Higher Power’s direction in your life. With prayer and meditation in your daily life, inspiration will become more and more a natural part of your thinking. It may help to use a prayer and meditation schedule or log, especially you’re just starting out.

OSHO MEDITATION

Silence must happen while you are absolutely alive and vital; bubbling with life and energy. Then it will be an alive silence. It can be a silence that can be both in the mountains and in the market place. Then you can live in the world and not the world living in you.

Stressful living and the unexpressed emotions can affect our ability to live joyfully and relate to others. OSHO meditation is scientifically designed to effectively relax these tensions which block the natural flow of energies in our bodies, allowing us to become more peaceful and relaxed. The great music is that what creates a synchronicity between you and itself when your heart starts resonating in the same way, when you start pulsating in the same way.

Meditation is an energy phenomenon, one very basic thing has to be understood about all types of energies, and this is the basic LAW to be understood. Energy moves in a dual polarity. This polarity is very meaningful for meditation, because mind is logical and life is dialectical; Life moves in the opposites, not in a line. It zigzags from negative to positive, from positive to negative.

“God, my master, your name brings tears of joy. Lord, you are in my mind. You are in my heart. You fulfill my soul. My beloved, thank you for being in my life. Thank you for showing me the way. I finally got it. Just the way I am. Just because of you. I know I am perfect and there is no need to change. Now I know that love is enough. Thank you so much for being in my life!”

NOTES:

 Best done at sunrise.

 It is an individual experience so be oblivious of others around you.

 Keep your eyes closed throughout or use a blindfold.

 Best to have empty stomach and wear loose, comfortable clothing

 This is a meditation that you need to be a witness, that is, be conscious and alert.

 Don’t get lost.

OSHO DYNAMIC MEDITATION

First Stage: 10 minutes

Breathe chaotically through your nose, concentrating always on the exhalation. The body will take care of the inhalation. Do this as fast and as hard as you possibly can and then a little harder – until you literally become the breathing. Use your whole body to push the air out, as if you were a balloon.

Second Stage: 10 minutes

Explode! Express everything that needs to be thrown out. Go totally mad. Scream, shout, jump, cry, shake, dance, and/or laugh. Throw yourself around. Hold nothing back. Keep your whole body moving. A little acting often helps you to get started. Never allow your mind to interfere with what is happening. Be total, be wholehearted, and stay alert.

Third stage: 10 minutes

With raised arms, jump up and down, shouting the mantra hoo, hoo, hoo... as deeply as you can, allowing the sound to come from the bottom of your belly. Stand fully on the flat of your feet and let the sound hammer deeply into your sex center. Give all you have, exhaust yourself completely.

Fourth stage: 15 minutes

Stop! Freeze wherever you are, in whatever position you find yourself, don’t arrange the body in anyway. A cough, a movement – anything will dissipate the energy flow and the effort will be lost. Stay completely still and beware of everything that is happening.

Fifth stage: 15 minutes

Celebrate through dance, expressing your gratitude of existence. Carry your happiness throughout the day.

OSHO KUNDALINI MEDITATION

This meditation lasts for one hour and has four stages, three with music, and the last without. Kundalini acts like an energetic shower, softly shaking you free of your day and leaving you refreshed and mellow.

First stage: 15 minutes

Be loose and let your whole body shake, feeling the energies moving up from your feet. Let go everywhere and become the shaking. Your eyes may be open or closed.

“Allow the shaking; don’t do it. Stand silently, feel it coming and when your body starts trembling, help it but don’t do it. Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow it, receive it, welcome it, but don’t will it”.

“If you force it will become an exercise, a bodily, physical exercise. Then the shaking will be there but just on the surface; it will not penetrate you. You will remain solid, stone-like, rock-like within. You will remain the manipulator, the doer, and the body will just be following. The body is not the question – you are the question”.

“When I say shake, I mean your solidity, your rock-like being should shake to the very foundations so that it becomes liquid, fluid melts, flows. And when the rock-like being becomes liquid, your body will follow. Then there is no shake, only shaking. Then nobody is doing it; it is simply happening. Remember the doer is not “OSHO”.

Second Stage: 15 minutes

Dance, any way you feel, letting the whole body move as it wishes. Again, your eyes can be open or closed.

Third Stage: 15 minutes

Close your eyes and be still, sitting or standing, observing, witnessing, whatever is happening inside and out.

Fourth Stage: 15 minutes

Keep your eyes closed, lie down and be still.