You need the breath as flat as possible in order to be able to repress feelings without holding the breath there can be no repression.
The outer personality layer carrying the "chicken shit" is only possible to keep up by repressed shallow breathing. They get stuck in the identification with the body-mind while meditation moves even beyond that. More advanced therapy talks about the "core layer" in their model, but in meditation it becomes clearer that there are deeper layers beyond what therapists often see as the core. But meditation advances to the layer of death and comes to the core, the essence or buddha quality, or whatever you want to call it. Then comes a layer that Freud mentioned but neglected later on: the layer of death. Reich called it the layer of destruction, catharsis or negativity.Īfter this layer comes what therapy sometimes reaches: the layer of life energy, of orgasmic energy, where you are reconnected to the juice of life. Revolutionary therapy, starting with Reich, looked more at the next layer: the layer of all the forbidden stuff, of forbidden expression. Both are very superficial levels of living. The most superficial layer, what Perls calls the chickenshit layer, is the layer of social rules, and behind that is the layer of social behavior. Classical meditation touches the inner layer. Therapy goes a little deeper but still remains on the periphery, confined to the personality. Reich when he discovered the layers of energy in our personality. This dimension came into focus in the West with W. Unlike in common sports, including jogging, in Osho Dynamic Meditation you are penetrating and going beyond the personality layers.
We can talk about sport, therapy and meditation in terms of how they impact the character layers of a person. That can help you to get rid of some anger, at least, but more often it is used to repress and control than to transform emotions and reconnect to the art of feeling. Jogging releases some emotional energy but it doesn't connect you deeply with emotions and their release. The younger generation of tennis players sigh now more loudly on court, but generally it is not acceptable to release emotions. What is the difference between how Osho Dynamic Meditation, and an activity like jogging, impact us?Īlthough in jogging you can watch your mind, what is missing – especially in the beginning – is the emotional element and the opening to feeling, in general. Any conditioned program you might have taken on – that you want to do it very well, or you sabotage it because you fight with your own energies – becomes very visible in Dynamic.
It's a very physical activity that you basically do for yourself, so there is nobody to compete with. Osho Dynamic Meditation is a modern transformaton of sport because not only do body and mind come together – it creates a bridge between the body and mind again – but Osho Dynamic also works on our conditioning concerning competition. I'm talking about sport in the good sense – like samurais fighting with each other, which was about playfulness, without competition. To me, Osho Dynamic provides a transformation of sport.
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He conducts workshops throughout the world and is currently working on a book about personal transformation and on a CD series of breath-related active meditations. Dynamic Meditation: Sport Transformed | Home Page |įrom Germany, Devapath Peters MD is, in addition to being a medical doctor, a therapist in the areas of breath and primal therapy, the art of intimate relating, and dynamic leadership.