Sit still, breathe!

From letting go through speaking gibberish to studying the body’s five rhythms. Some meditation
techniques that help you find that calm within.

“What is the energy that can replace fear?” Goa-based healer Patrick asks a group of people at the
end of a meditation, in Delhi’s New Friends Colony. The answers are many, but nobody can quite hit
the nail on the head, till he answers,’ Ego’. One’s ego should be large enough not to be upset by
minor slights and upsets.

Meditation offers a path to find the calm within. As we get caught up in the ‘external world’,
meditation improves attitudes, thoughts, actions and interactions. Spiritual coach Deepak Chopra
explains,” The highest form of human intelligence is to be able to observe yourself without
evaluation, to be present, to be self aware.”

So take your pick or try them all!

OSHO’S GIBBERISH

This is a cathartic technique where one feels unburdened, light and young, like a child, says Ma
Prema Naina, Osho World Foundation.

How it’s done:

First Stage: 15 minutes. Close your eyes and begin to say nonsense sounds (gibberish). Without
suppressing your thoughts, you can throw everything out. Let your body be expressive.

Second Stage: 15 minutes. Lie on your stomach and feel yourself merging with Mother Earth, with
each exhalation.

HO’OPONOPONO

Pune based past life therapist Shubha Yeri explains its origin, which is rooted in a Hawaiian
psychiatrist Ilahekela Hew Lane healing violent, insane inmates of a hospital without ever actually
meeting them, by simply healing negative qualities in himself.

How it’s done:

There are four sentences in Ho’oponopono which have to be repeated mentally, as many times as
you wish:

 I am sorry.
 Please forgive me.
 Thank you.
 I love you.

If there is unhappiness, anger or hatred regarding a person, bring him or her in your mind and start
to say these lines. Move to the next person or situation. Conversely, start saying the four sentences
and you will find people or situations flashing before your eyes. When the ‘need’ (your own) is
fulfilled, they will vanish.
 Sit still, breathe!
From letting go through speaking gibberish to studying the body’s five rhythms. Some meditation
techniques that help you find that calm within.

Dynamic Meditation

Vikram Badhwar, communications facilitator, recommends dynamic movement, studying the body’s five
rhythms ---- flow, staccato, chaos, stillness and celebration.