Meditation in daily life

Laugh for five to sixty minutes. Then sit for fifteen minutes with your eyes closed and remain a witness to mind, body and emotions. At every opportunity bring your awareness to the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath at the navel area.

Five to ten minutes. In the morning, sit in front of the mirror and start making faces, just as small children do: good, bad, ugly and beautiful, so the whole face and the musculature start moving. Make nonsense sounds at the same time, and sway.

Even a moment is good, as a meditation take longer. Sit down, close your eyes and put your palms lightly on your eyes, without pressing. In a relaxed mind thoughts cannot move, they live through tension. Good whenever you work a lot at a screen.

As a passenger. Let your body move along with the movements of the car, be loose, become the car.

Whenever you move from one activity to the next: for five minutes simply exhale as deeply as possible. Let the body inhale, don't you inhale. Have a feeling that you are throwing out everything that was in the mind, the body and the system. Five minutes, then start the next thing.

Relax the lower jaw and let your mouth open just slightly. Start breathing from the mouth, but not deeply, and let the breath become shallower by itself. When the jaw is relaxed, start feeling a smile, not on your face but all over your being. It is not a smile that comes on the lips, it is one that spreads inside, soft like a small rose opening in the belly.

Close your eyes and follow the inhalation from where it enters your nostrils right down into your lungs. Watch the gap at the end of it. Then watch the exhalation, and the gap that follows. Do these four steps two or three times, without changing the breath in any way. Then start counting: an inhalation is one, the exhalation is not counted, up to ten and back again. If you lose count, start at one.

Practices from the Osho tradition, as we pass them on at bodhana.