MEDITATION

The Chakra Centers are: 7 crown chakra 6 third eye 5 throat chakra 4 heart chakra 3 solar plexus 2 hara center 1 sex chakra

The Chakra Sounds meditation is a very soft way to activate and harmonize the energy centers of the body, working with the vibrations of musical sound. The music was recorded during a live performance of musicians and singers working very closely with the makers of the meditation. In this way, the music not only uses the exact sounds which will activate each chakra, but also musically illustrates the character of each individual center. The meditator is advised to sing along and harmonize with the music. Singing "aw" (to rhyme with the English word "jaw") will help the sound to vibrate inside the body and increase the effect of the meditation. This meditation technique uses sounds that the meditator generates through his voice. The sounds open and harmonize the chakras and bring awareness to them. In this meditation you can drop into a deep and peaceful, inner silence. Producing the sound with your voice as well as listening to it inside attunes your being and creates a harmony between body mind and soul. This meditation can be done at any time and is best done on an empty stomach.

First stage (45 minutes music):
Stand, sit comfortably, or lie down if you prefer. Keep your back straight and your body loose. Breathe into your belly rather than your chest. The sounds should be made with your mouth open and your jaw loose, keeping your mouth open the whole time.

Close your eyes and listen to the music; if you wish, start making sounds in the first chakra. You can make a single tone or you can vary the tone. Let the music guide you; however, you can be creative with your own sounds. While listening to the sound of the music or the sounds that you make, feel the sounds pulsating in the very center of your chakra, even if it seems to be imagination at first.

Osho has suggested that we can use the imagination in "becoming attuned to something that is already there". So keep doing the meditation even if it feels like you may be imagining the chakras. With awareness your imagination can lead you to an experience of the inner vibrations of each center.

After making sounds in the first chakra, you will hear the tones change to a higher pitch - this is the indication to listen and feel sounds in the second chakra. If you wish, you can continue making sounds also. This process is repeated all the way up to the seventh chakra.

As you move from chakra to chakra, let your sounds become higher in pitch. After listening to and making sounds in the seventh chakra, the tones will descend one at a time down through all the chakras. As you hear the tones go down, listen and make sounds in each chakra. Feel the inside of your body becoming hollow like a bamboo flute, allowing the sounds to resonate from the top of your head down to the very base of your trunk. At the end of the sequence, you will hear a pause before the next sequence starts. This upward and downward movement of sound will be repeated three times for a total of approximately 45 minutes.

After you have become familiar with the meditation, you can add another dimension to it through visualization. Be open to allowing visual images to appear in your imagination as you focus on each chakra. There is no need to create images, just be receptive to any which may come. The images could be colors, patterns or scenes of nature. What comes to your awareness may be visual, or it may be more natural for you to have a thought rather than a visual image. For example, you may think "gold" or you may see color in your imagination. OSHO

Second stage (15 minutes silence):
After the last sound sequence, remain sitting or lying down in silence with closed eyes. Remain in silence and don't focus on anything in particular. Allow yourself to become aware of and watch whatever is happening within. Be relaxed and remain a witness, not judging it.

'Music is a very subtle meditation. The seven notes of music are concerned with the seven chakras of the body and each chakra has its own note. If you concentrate on that chakra, you will start hearing that note arising within your body. The second chakra has two notes, the third, three. One is important, the other two are just part of it but create a harmony. It goes on becoming a greater harmony, rising higher with each chakra. On the seventh chakra it is an orchestra.

Each chakra has its own form, its own music, its own taste, its own smell. The deeper you move inside yourself, the more you find the whole world, because if it is not within you, you cannot see it without either. Something is needed to correspond.' OSHO .