My 30-day experience with Dynamic Meditation

Dynamic Meditation is a technique created by Osho so that we could start to learn to meditate. It is 1 hour long and has 5 stages. The first three stages are 10 minutes long and the last two, 15 minutes. It is recommended to do it in the morning, upon waking up. The technique has a specific song for each stage and silence in the third stage. At all stages, we keep our eyes closed. For those who still don't know, it seems crazy, really crazy. And is. And I will tell you that it takes a lot of work, you invest a lot of time, money and energy to be crazy, leaving behind the existing social model of being standardized, it is liberating. If it's your vibe, play!

The first stage is chaotic breathing with an emphasis on exhalation. With your legs parallel, your knees bent, your arms up with your elbow bent at chest level, you start a very strong breath with an emphasis on exhalation, in a very chaotic way, nothing rhythmic, nothing right, alternating natural exhales long, medium and short, in no order and quickly.

The second stage is cathartic. You allow yourself madness, let your madman leave without any repression. It is worth shouting, making different sounds, hitting a pillow, wringing and biting on a towel, any other way of expressing yourself and venting your anger in a healthy way. Make faces, imitate animals, move uncoordinated and whatever else your creativity and will can lead you to do.

The third stage is grounding. With your legs parallel, your knees bent and your arms up, elbows at shoulder height, you jump with your feet planted on the floor. And every time your feet touch the ground, you make the sound of "Hoo". This Hoo comes from within, the sound of the belly. It means "I am the creation".

The fourth stage is of stillness and silence, as if you were a statue. Just living in the present moment. The person stops at the sound of “STOP”, said by Osho and stays exactly in the position that was doing the movement of the second stage when listening to it.

The fifth stage is a free dance to celebrate life. It starts with a very smooth flute. It is a beautiful and vibrant song. It is to let the sound take you, to be the dance only, not to be rationalizing existing steps. Feel the music and dance.

I already knew this technique and had done it a few times in immersion encounters. But only by participating in the Osho Meditation Techniques course, did I allow myself to live this experience so intensely. What an amazing course, too transformative for those who are willing.

On the first day I played, I did it with all my will, still with many adjustments to be corrected throughout the process by the coordinators of the course. The mind did not stop, the tiredness was immense, the body ached a lot. I started the stages with a lot of energy, but I couldn't keep it high until the end of them.

The mind was: “For the love of God, finish it soon!”, “I can't take it anymore!”, “Oh, what a pain!”, “I need to stop!” ...

I thought of a thousand different things, an enormous difficulty in just living in the present moment.

In the following days, the body was exhausted, I was beyond Dynamic, doing an average of 3 other active meditations a day, which also require a lot of energy and physical effort. I have been attending muay thai classes for 6 years now and did not imagine that meditations would demand so much from other parts of my body that I do not usually work. That's crazy.

It was exhausting, I felt a lot of nausea, I almost vomited many times, I cried, laughed, I felt a mixture of emotions, I felt tired and pained, there were many tears and sweat running down my body ...

On the fifth day, I did the Dynamics with all my will and came to me with a very wonderful reward. I felt like I hadn't felt in a long time, I felt such a great ecstasy, a clarity came over me about the simplicity of life, about my freedom, I danced so incredibly dominated by these feelings, crying and laughing with joy.

There were countless internal and external changes throughout my process, including:

• A clear conscience, thrown in my face urgently of how much I need to look inside.

• I have observed countless shadows that I have, and now I can work on them.

• I got angry screamingly, crazy irritation, with several things and made decisions that were very important for my growth.

• I found myself doing things that I don't think are cool.

• I found that I still place myself in places and situations that no longer make any sense to me.

• I noticed how much I still stay in gear instead of taking the reins of my own life.

• I put an end to a relationship in which there were many beautiful and delicious things, but in which we looked in completely opposite directions and even though we unconsciously tried to change each other all the time. Looking at it and seeing us committing this violence with each other was soul-wrenching.

• I decided to throw myself into some very strong therapeutic processes as a form of self-knowledge and self-care.

• I realized the need to practice the techniques of active meditation on a daily basis and learn to be truly meditative in life.

I can only thank Osho, the course and life, for providing me with the possibility of seeing myself and from there I can take care of myself.

Fidgeting and looking at oneself can be painful, but it is very rich and rewarding to be able to gradually learn to use the cerebral cortex and to be able, in my time, to differentiate mental schedules from real wills, walking towards the goal of becoming master of myself.

Just gratitude!