Talking to the Wall – a Heart & Soul Meditation-(Online)

What is Talking to Wall Meditation? In this process, we will sit or stand or pace around all the while you say whatever the mind wants to express and you say it to a wall!   This process will take 40 minutes, to allow our deep unconscious time to surface and express itself.  Then we will just sit in a comfortable position, with spine straight and  eyes closed or partially closed and just watch the mind and emotions arise and drift away.

Why do we offer this meditation? We offer this because we have found it to be very helpful in our lives.  Here is what Osho said as he gave this meditation to someone personally.

Osho’s Talk to the Wall Meditation

‘Every night before you go to sleep, for forty minutes sit facing the wall and start talking — talk loudly. Enjoy it… be with it. If you find that there are two voices, then talk from both of the sides. Give your support to this side, then answer from the other side, and see how you can create a beautiful dialogue.

Don’t try to manipulate it; because you are not saying it for anybody. If it is going to be crazy, let it be. Don’t try to cut anything or censor anything, because then the whole point is lost.

Do it for at least ten days. For those forty minutes, in no way try to be against [the inner dialogue]. Just put your whole energy into it and within ten days something will surface which has been trying to tell you something but you have not listened; or which you were aware of but didn’t want to listen to. Listen to it and then it is finished. Why so much inner dialogue? It cannot be unnecessary; there must be something in it. There is.

So start this talking to the wall — and be totally in it. Keep the lights either off or very dim, mm? If sometimes you feel like shouting and becoming angry in your talk, become angry and shout, because it will go deep only when it is done with feeling. If you are just on a head-trip and you go on repeating words like a dead tape, that won’t help and the real thing won’t surface.

Talk with feeling, with gestures… as if the other is present there. After near about twenty-five minutes you will warm up. The last fifteen minutes will be tremendously beautiful; you will enjoy it. After ten days you will see that by and by the inner talk is disappearing and you have come to understand a few things you have never understood about yourself.’

How we do it?

1. Sit or stand or pace around facing a wall and begin to talk out loud, expressing whatever the mind/heart/belly wants to say.
2. Then sit quietly, in a comfortable position but spine straight for 20 minutes. The eyes maybe partially closed or closed.  Then we watch thoughts, emotions and body sensations come and go.  We include in the meditation any sounds…as if they are part of a symphony of back ground music.

This is a fun country song by Loretta Lynn called Talking to the Wall! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqY6VjDtbvA

This is part of the Heart and Soul series, each Wednesday we will present a Meditation from the numerous meditation traditions Osho has given us.  We want to share and pass on as many of these as possible.  Often when Shanti (one of the meditation facilitators of The World of Meditation) would meet with Osho in a darshan, he would introduce to her a meditation technique, asking her to try it out.  Her love for experimenting with a variety of techniques continues even to this day.

Each session we will introduce the particular meditation presented.  Then we will all do the meditation.  There is always time before and after each meditation to ask questions and to just hang out with each other!

Expectations in Meditation by Mystic Osho.

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