| mode of meditation was created by a guy named | | | | hollers, dances, shakes and otherwise acts out the |
| Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain, but he changed his | | | | emotion being released. It is supposed to be a |
| name to Osho. He created a vast amount of | | | | total effort to give the body a chance to do its |
| meditation modes, but the most well known | | | | thing in releasing stayed emotion. This phase is |
| mode is called The Osho Dynamic Meditation. | | | | controlled by the body and not the mind. |
| His thought was that it wasn’t necessary | | | | The following phase is where the practitioner |
| to be a recluse from the ways of the world to | | | | expends any energy left by jumping and upon |
| attain wisdom. Some would call this enlightenment. | | | | landing loudly says “Hoo, Hoo.” This |
| He thought that all people could attain wisdom if | | | | is done for ten minutes. |
| they had the right techniques. He thought that | | | | For the fourth phase the practitioner seizes |
| anyone had the potency to be a Buddha. He | | | | completely the energy secured by participating in |
| believed that love, peacefulness, and a free mind | | | | the initial phases of the meditation. This is |
| are in everyone. His philosophy about meditation | | | | achieved by being completely still. Not a muscle is |
| was very non-traditional. He believed that | | | | moved. The meditator’s goal is to be |
| contemporary folk had to be moving to meditate. | | | | observant and see all that is occurring in his |
| He said that the high level of repressed feelings in | | | | environment, this last for fifteen minutes. |
| modern people needed a release that involved | | | | The final phase of this meditation consists of |
| dynamic movement. | | | | dancing and rejoicing. The practitioner is supposed |
| Four Phases | | | | to be grateful that his bent up energy and |
| There are four phases or stages to The Oslo | | | | emotion has been released. This phase lasts for |
| Dynamic Meditation mode. First, the practitioner | | | | fifteen minutes and is meant to help the |
| breathes fast and with intense energy. It is a | | | | meditator be happy for the entire day. |
| rapid, but deep breathing technique. It is quite the | | | | Oslo left this world in 1990. When you consider his |
| opposite of any traditional breathing method. The | | | | ideas and beliefs about meditation, you realized |
| meditator’s concentrates on his exhalation | | | | that he turned traditional concepts upside down |
| and not inhalation too as is traditionally done. The | | | | and inside out. Yet, his mode of meditation is still |
| idea is that this hard and fast breathing will | | | | on the rise in usage. Apparently, his form of |
| engender energy and that is utilized in stage two. | | | | meditation is something that is more appealing to |
| The next phase is for expelling any trapped | | | | people that might not have gotten into meditation |
| emotion inside of the meditator. This phase of the | | | | if only the tried and well-known methods were |
| meditation is extremely active; it’s a | | | | available to the contemporary public--maybe, a |
| release phase so that the practitioner runs, hops, | | | | more raucous mode for an edgier generation. |