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Chapter 12: OSHO Chakra Sounds Meditation
This meditation can be done at any time. It uses vocal sounds to open and harmonize the chakras* or energy centers while bringing awareness to them. It can bring you into a deep, peaceful, inner silence either through making your own vocal sounds or by just listening to the music and feeling the sounds within you.
* All chakras lie deep within, rather than on the surface of the body. The following “map” is used to indicate their approximate locations:
1. base chakra: the sex center, lower pelvis
2. sacral chakra: just below the navel
3. solar plexus chakra: above the navel, below the breastbone
4. heart chakra: the middle of the chest
5. throat chakra: the throat
6. third-eye chakra: between the eyebrows
7. crown chakra: top of the head
This meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Chakra Sounds Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.
INSTRUCTIONS
The meditation lasts one hour and has two stages. Keep your eyes closed throughout.
FIRST STAGE: 45 MINUTES
Stand, sit comfortably, or lie down if you prefer. Keep your back straight and your body loose. Breathe into your belly rather than your chest. The sounds should be made with your mouth open and your jaw loose, keeping your mouth open the whole time. Close your eyes and listen to the music; if you wish, start making sounds in the first chakra. You can make a single tone or you can vary the tone. Let the music guide you; however, you can be creative with your own sounds. While listening to the sound of the music or the sounds that you make, feel the sounds pulsating in the very center of the chakra, even if it seems to be imagination at first.
Imagination can be used for "becoming attuned to something that is already there.” So keep doing the meditation even if it feels like you may be imagining the chakras. With awareness, your imagination can lead you to an experience of the inner vibrations of each center.
After making sounds in the first chakra, you will hear the tones change to a higher pitch – this is the indication to listen and feel sounds in the second chakra. If you wish, you can continue making sounds also. This process is repeated all the way up to the seventh chakra. As you move from chakra to chakra, let your sounds become higher in pitch.
After listening to and making sounds in the seventh chakra, the tones will descend one at a
time down through all the chakras. As you hear the tones go down, listen and make sounds in each chakra. Feel the inside of your body becoming hollow like a bamboo flute, allowing the sounds to resonate from the top of your head down to the very base of your trunk.
At the end of the sequence, you will hear a pause before the next sequence starts. This upward and downward movement of sound will be repeated three times for a total of 45 minutes.
After you have become familiar with the meditation, you can add another dimension to it through visualization – allowing visual images to appear in your imagination as you focus on each chakra. There is no need to create images, just be receptive to any which may come. The images could be colors, patterns, or scenes of nature. What comes to your awareness may be visual, or it may come as a thought – for example, you may think "gold" or you may see color in your imagination.
SECOND STAGE: 15 MINUTES
After the last sound sequence, sit or lie down with closed eyes. Remain in silence and don't focus on anything in particular. Become aware of and watch whatever is happening within – relaxed, without any judgment, remaining a witness.
Music is a very subtle meditation. The seven notes of music are concerned with the seven chakras of the body and each chakra has its own note. If you concentrate on that chakra, you will start hearing that note arising within your body. The second chakra has two notes, the third, three. One is important, the other two are just part of it but create a harmony. It goes on becoming a greater harmony, rising higher with each chakra. On the seventh chakra it is an orchestra.
Each chakra has its own form, its own music, its own taste, its own smell. The deeper you move inside yourself, the more you find the whole world because if it is not within you, you cannot see it without either. Something is needed to correspond.
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