Unwinding Before Sleep

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Unwinding

Before Sleep

 

Every night sit comfortably in a chair and rest your head

back, like you

do at the dentist. You can use a pillow. Then release

your lower jaw.

Just relax it so the mouth opens slightly, and start

breathing from the

mouth, not from the nose. Don't change your breathing let

it be natural.

The first few breaths will be a little hectic. By and by

your breathing

will settle down and become very shallow. It will go in

and out very

slightly. Keep your mouth open, eyes closed, and rest.

Then start

feeling that your legs are becoming loose, as if they are

being taken

away from you, cut loose from the joints. Then start

thinking that you

are just the upper part of your body; the legs are gone.

Then the hands

think that both the hands are not becoming loose and

being taken away

from you. You are no more your hands � they are dead,

taken away.

Then start thinking about the head  that it is being

taken away, that

you are being beheaded. 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  this

chest, the belly, that's all. Do this for at least twenty

minutes, just

before you go to sleep.

 

And do it for at least three weeks. Osho

 

Excerpted from unpublished talks

 

“Fortunately

art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a

spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the

flesh.”

-Allen Ginsberg

 

 

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