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The spiritual master Osho, although considered a little eccentric by some people, was actually very far advanced in many of the methods that he advocated. They look and sound a bit weird, but they actually will all work for you.

Here are some very easy ways that Osho advocated to relieve tension and stress within your life. His focus was on the spiritual side, but these exercises also affect the physical side of you as well. All parts of you are linked together, and if you relieve the stress within one area, the benefits will then flow into all areas of your life.

Easy Way One:

This is so deceptively simple, and you will feel like an idiot when doing it, but just try it, and relax. The technique is to simply speak gibberish, or nonsense words and phrases, making them all up as you go, in a fast paced and free flowing way. It is more effective when the words are spoken out aloud of course, but you can mouth them more quietly to yourself, if you want to.

Easy Way Two:

This is also quite similar to the first exercise.

This is an unusual relaxation method of tongue shaking. All that you do is to move your tongue rapidly in and out, side to side and up and down, both with the mouth closed or open, and making the movements as erratic, or uncontrolled as is possible. This calms the mind from thinking, as thinking is linked to speech physically via the tongue. Before meditation this relaxes the whole head and face, cheeks and even the ears and the jaw in particular, all are included.

Meditate for a few minutes after doing this exercise then on the silence of nothing, by chanting the words, "no thing is nothing."

This exercise of wobbling your tongue apparently comes from an ancient Atlantean practice of moving their tongue in such a way. They would be making a wobbling movement of their tongue while creating a small humming noise at the same time. To hum and wobble your tongue at the same time requires you to hum from your throat centre, and below. You can hum even from deep down towards your stomach area. The humming cannot not be done in your mouth, from your lips, if you are wobbling your tongue at the same time.

Next try laughing loudly at the same time as you tongue wobble, and see the benefits of releasing tension through the release of your held non laughter. Holding back laughter or happiness in any way in your life, always produces tension and stress. Laughter of course is a great stress reliever of itself in its own way.

Then contemplate or meditate on nonsense phrases

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