Meditation for Busy People Stress-Beating Strategies for People with No Time to Meditate

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781938755811
• ISBN10: 1938755812
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-10-14
• Publisher: Osho Media International

Summary

Meditation for Busy People offers simple strategies to reduce tension, minimize chronic stress, and quickly relax and unwind. Nobody needs meditation more than people who have no time to meditate. These busy people may have tried meditation but given it up, as it seems so difficult to integrate into a hectic lifestyle. Most traditional meditation techniques were developed thousands of years ago for people living a very different lifestyle than today. Few people today find it easy to just sit down and relax. Meditation for Busy People is filled with methods that can actually be integrated into everyday life. A morning commute becomes a centering exercise, and the street noises outside an apartment window in the city become an aid rather than a distraction to finding the silent space within. Both active and passive meditation techniques are covered, and the aim of all the techniques is to teach the practitioner how to find the stillness in the storm of everyday life. Many methods are specially designed to be integrated into the reader's everyday routines, so that they soon can tackle even the most hectic day with an attitude of relaxed calm and playfulness.

Author Biography

Osho (1931–1990) was a contemporary mystic whose life and teachings have influenced millions of people of all ages, and from all walks of life. His often provocative and challenging teachings continue to generate more and more interest today, and his readership is dramatically expanding around the world in more than 50 languages. People can easily recognize the wisdom of his insights and their relevance to our lives and to the issues we are facing today. The Sunday Times (London) named Osho as one of the "1,000 Makers of the 20th Century." He is known around the world for his revolutionary contribution to meditation — the science of inner transformation — with the unique approach of his "Osho Active Meditations" acknowledging the accelerated pace of contemporary life and bringing meditation into modern life.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE ROOTS OF STRESS

Lighting Up the Inner
The Pathology of Ambition

PART II: MAKING THE BODY–MIND CONNECTION

Awareness and Relaxation: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Don't Try Harder
Don't Choose
Accept the Ups and Downs
Don't Fight with Your Nature
Look for the Pay-off
Look for the Changing, Appreciate the Unchanging

PART III: RELATING FROM THE CENTER
Living with Others: The Rules and When to Break Them
Start from the Center
Drop the Doing
Three Techniques for Centering
His Story / Her Story
Lovemaking as a Meditation

PART IV: MEDITATIONS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE
Natural and Easy
Breath is a Key
Relaxed Attention
Taking Space
Conscious Eating
The Inner Smile
Rise with the Sun
Saying Yes
Letting Go of Restlessness
Staying in Touch with the Heart
The Stop! Exercise
Breaking Out of the Box
Just Listening
Pillar of Energy
Collapsing Into Silence
Enjoying the Drama
Complete the Circle – A Mirror Meditation
Move from the Head to the Heart
Air Space for Road Warriors

PART V: UNTYING THE KNOTS – ACTIVE MEDITATIONS TO FIND STILLNESS WITHIN
Why Catharsis is Helpful
Techniques
1. Gibberish meditation – emptying the mental trash
2. Start the Day with Laughter
3. A Centering Device
4. Running, Jogging and Swimming
5. OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation

AFTERWORD