February is here and we at OMC are aware of the intensity of these times and so we thought to offer a calming meditation this month to help soothe the strong energy that has been overwhelming many of us in different ways.
We are featuring Osho’s Nadabrahma Meditation
on
Wednesdays at 5:30 pm this month
In person and on zoom.
Nadabrahma is Osho’s humming meditation – through humming for an extended time and then moving into hand movements of giving and receiving, conflicting parts of you start falling in tune, and you bring harmony to your whole being. Then, with body and mind totally together, you “slip out of their hold” and become a witness to both. This watching from the outside is what brings peace, silence and bliss.
Osho taught that humming could help people harmonize their conflicting parts and bring their body and mind into alignment.
How does humming work in the OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation?
When we do the meditation there are a few suggestions:
- Hum loudly enough to be heard by others
- Visualize your spine as a hollow bamboo, filled with the vibrations of the humming as it moves up and down with your breath
- Continue humming until it takes over and you become the listener
- Then, move into gentle hand movements to give and receive energy from existence,
- Then, move into stillness and silence
Why is humming beneficial?
- Humming can help people move out of “fight or flight” stress mode and into relaxation
- Humming stimulates the vagus nerve, which is part of the parasympathetic nervous system that helps people relax
- Humming can lower stress and heart rate while increasing heart rate variability
Humming creates a vibration in the body and, especially, in the brain cells. Through this, the bodymind becomes deeply harmonious. Then the other element, that which we really are – the watching consciousness – is more easily experienced.