Close your eyes and imagine that your head has become infinite. Now there are no boundaries to it. It goes on and on and on and there is no boundary to it. Your head has become the whole cosmos, without any boundaries. If you can imagine this, suddenly thoughts will stop. If you can imagine your head as infinite, thinking will not be there. Thinking can exist only in a very narrow mind. The narrower it is, the better for thinking. The greater the mind, the less the thinking, and when the mind becomes total space, there is no thinking at all.

Try. And it will be good if you try from the head, because that is the base of all illness. Close your eyes, lie down on the ground or sit on a chair and relax. Just look within the head. Feel the walls of the head spreading, expanding. If you feel that it will be very staggering, then try it slowly. First think that your head has come to occupy the whole room. You will actually feel your skin touching the walls. You will feel the coolness of the walls that your skin is touching. You will feel the pressure.

Go on moving. Your head has gone beyond ― now the house has come within your head, then the whole town has come within your head. Go on spreading. Within three months, slowly, you can come to the point where the sun rises in your head, it starts moving in your head. Your head has become infinite. This will give you a deep freedom such as you have never known. And all the misery that belongs to this narrow mind will disappear. In such a state, Upanishadic seers could say, “aham brahmasmi” ― “I am the Divine, I am the Absolute.”

Osho: Excerpted from The Book of Secrets

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This technique says don’t do anything with anxiety. Just be alert!

I will tell you one old anecdote about Bokuju, another Zen master. He lived alone in a cave, but during the day, or even in the night, he would sometimes say loudly, “Bokuju” — his own name, and then he would say, “Yes, I am here.” And no one else was there.
Then his disciples used to ask him, “Why are you calling ‘Bokuju’, your own name, and then saying, ‘Yes sir, I am here’?”
He said, “Whenever I get into thinking, I have to remember to be alert, and so I call my own name, ‘Bokuju.’ The moment I call ‘Bokuju’ and I say, ‘Yes sir, I am here,’ the thinking, the anxiety disappears.”
Then, in his last days, for two or three years, he never called “Bokuju,” his name, and never had to reply, “Yes sir, I am here.”
The disciples asked, “Master, now you never do this.”
So he said, “But now Bokuju is always there. He is always there, and there is no need. Before I used to miss him. Sometimes the anxiety would take me, cloud me all over, and Bokuju was not there. So I had to remember ‘Bokuju,’ and the anxiety would disappear….”

Try your name. When you feel deep anxiety, just call your name — not “Bokuju” or any name, but your name — and then reply to it, “Yes sir, I am here,” and feel the difference. Anxiety will not be there. At least for a single moment you will have a glimpse beyond the clouds, and that glimpse can be deepened. Once you know that if you become alert anxiety is not there, it disappears; you have come to a deep knowing of your own self and the mechanism of inner working.

Osho: Excerpted from The Book of Secrets

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Close your eyes, then focus both of them just in the middle of the two eyebrows, as if you are looking there with your two eyes. Give total attention to it.

At the right point, suddenly your eyes will become fixed. And if your attention is there, you will experience a strange phenomenon: for the first time you will see thoughts running before you; you will become the witness. It is just like a film screen: thoughts are running and you are a witness.

Ordinarily you are not the witness, you are identified with thoughts. If anger is there, you become anger. If a thought moves you are not the witness; you become one with the thought, identified, and you move with it. You become the thought; you take the form of the thought. When sex is there you become sex, when anger is there you become anger, when greed is there you become greed. Any thought moving becomes identified with you; you do not have any gap between you and the thought.

But focused at the third eye, suddenly you become a witness. Through the third eye you can see thoughts running like clouds in the sky, or people moving on the street.

Osho
Excerpted from The Book of Secrets

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Body Shifts
A daily practice of mini body shifts will help you manage stress at your office and give you permission to pause; permission to slow down, to be reflective and to give yourself and your body a mini-break. You can intentionally:

• do some diaphragmatic breathing (see below)
• close your eyes and simply be
• walk over to the window and gaze out
• stretch your limbs
• massage your neck
• rotate your shoulders
• be kind to your body
• listen to your body – what is it asking for
• move away from your computer

Physically moving your body allows for shifts in your body’s energy. Bodies are designed to move. When you remain in one position too long, your body can give you signals that it is time for you to adjust your position; to stretch or to get up and move.

The same applies when your mind is ‘stuck’ on a position for too long. For example, when you are in a negative thought pattern, you may have a certain body position that you adopt. Perhaps there is a particular way that you sit (rounded shoulders, head bent forward) or you may have a favorite “poor me chair”.

Take a moment to become curious about how and where you do this. If you catch yourself in this body perspective, try standing up; look out the window, walk down the hall or go outside. You will likely notice that you feel differently. It doesn’t mean that every trace of your thought pattern or mood will disappear, but it is likely that some form of movement will cause a shift. It is an intentional body perspective shift.

We can impact the degree to which we relax by using diaphragmatic breathing. Place one hand on your upper chest and the other on your abdomen. Keep the hand on your chest still and concentrate on breathing into the hand on your abdomen. Allow your abdomen to soften and fill up with your breath. Do not try to force the breath. Simply make the process as effortless as possible. Breathing in this way will help release stress and tension. Also, as you slightly extend the out breath, it will engage the parasympathetic nervous system and assist with relaxation.

Marlena Field, PCC, CPCC, founder and author of Body-Centered Coaching, offers a free e-newsletter titled BodyMind Wisdom: listen to your body, connect with your spirit. When you subscribe, you will receive her free audio titled “Conscious Choices for Change”.

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