Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh Running, Jogging and Swimming Meditation

Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh Running, Jogging and Swimming Meditation

When you are doing some work, it is normal and easy to remain aware. When you are sitting calmly, it is more likely that you will start falling asleep. When you are laying on your bed, it is more difficult to remain aware because the conditions will force you to sleep. On the other hand, if you are involved in some work, you cannot sleep but you try to keep yourself aware.

Sometimes runners, joggers and swimmers experience strange things. You might not have heard that such physical exercises can act as meditation too. Such people sometimes experience sensations of meditation. They usually get surprised because they were not expecting this to happen. They were not running to find such a thing. Who thinks that a runner will feel Godliness?

If, you used to run early in the morning. You might have experienced a strange thing. Early in the morning, positive energy rises all over the world. You feel more fresh and relaxed at this time. A moment comes while running when runner vanishes but only running remains. This appears to be a strange phenomenon. The whole science of religion or meditation talks on this principle. When only the work which is being done remains whereas, the worker is not there anymore. In this moment your body, mind and soul work together. Suddenly you feel inner joy that can be called as Godliness.

Runner may think that it merely happened because of running. It was just a good day and that moment was just because of good day but runner can enter in meditation more easily than any other normal human.

Jogging can be very helpful. Swimming itself is very helpful too. Leave all the old assumptions about meditation like you have to sit under a tree and make some difficult moves. Those methods are one of the many methods to meditate. Those methods might be suitable for some people but not for all. For a small child, those methods would be more like a torture rather than meditation.

How to do Running, Jogging and Swimming Meditation by Osho Rajneesh

Start running early in the morning. On the very first day, you may run up to five hundred meters but keep increasing the distance slowly up to three miles. Use your whole body while running. Do not wear very tight clothes while running. Run like a small child. Take deep breaths till your stomach. After running, sit under a tree and rest.

Sometimes stand with bare feet on earth and feel warmth and tenderness. At this moment whatever earth is going to give you, imagine it and let it flow through you. Let your energy to flow into the earth too. Feel yourself connected with the earth. If, you are connected with the earth then it means you are connected with life and your body. You will become very sensitive in this way which is the main goal.

Never become an expert in running. Always be an amateur runner so that awareness can be kept while running. If, you feel that you have become an expert in running or the running has become automated then drop it and start trying other exercise. Keep shifting from one exercise to other exercise if you have the same feeling. Always remember that any physical exercise is just the platform to make you feel aware. Any physical exercise is meant to create awareness within you. If, it cannot then it has become useless. It is the time to pick something else.