Sleep Meditation
If one enters a state of meditation properly before sleeping, one's whole sleep is transformed.
If one enters a state of meditation properly before sleeping, one's whole sleep is transformed. One's whole sleep can become a meditation, because sleep has certain rules. The first rule is that the last thought at night becomes the central thought in your sleep, and it will be your first thought on waking up in the morning. If you have gone to sleep at night in anger, then throughout the night your mind and your dreams will be filled with anger. And when you wake up in the morning, you will find that your first feeling and your first thought will be of anger. Whatever we take to sleep with us at night stays with us the whole night.
That is why I say that if you do need to carry something in your sleep, then it is better to carry meditation with you so that the whole sleep revolves around meditation, around its peace. Slowly, slowly, within a few days, you will find that the dreams disappear, that your sleep becomes a deep river. And when you wake up in the morning from a deep sleep – deep from this night meditation – your first thoughts will be of peace, of bliss, of love.
So the morning journey has to be started with the morning meditation, and the night journey has to be started with the night meditation. The night meditation has to be done while lying down – while lying down in bed.
Osho, The Inner Journey, The Journey Towards The Navel
Pre-Sleep Meditation
Inviting Deep sleep revolving around peace, bliss, love, healing and meditation
Inviting Deep sleep revolving around peace, bliss, love, healing and meditation
There are a few easy meditation routines for falling into the night sleep. To feel vibrant and alive, choose based on your current symptoms to get lots of the extra care and love, and if you are feeling normal or healthy choose your growth based on the benefits/blessings, as well as your energy and enjoyment level.
If this is your first time and you are unsure, go with simple Routine 3, an enduring classic. If you are an early sleeper, say 9:30 PM, you may love routine 1 and then routine 2 together. If you are a very late sleeper, routine 3 is easy.
Each technique works on the entire body-mind, inspite of their active focus being different and unique. So if you find your favorite, you can stay with it for night/morning routine and practice it internally through the day
Symptom |
Meditation & Sleep |
Benefit |
Routine |
Physical tension, Ungrounded and unable to surrender to sleep |
Standing and Kneeling Prayer Meditation 20 mins |
Deep sleep and physical nurture |
1 |
Mental/emotional chattering & residual tension, Too much dreams, shallow sleep, no depth and tired morning |
Sitting Devavani Latihan 15 mins |
Deep sleep and mental/emotional refreshment |
2 |
Lack of energy and vitality blocks, sleeping late-night after TV |
Lying down Death Meditation, Golden Light-Darkness Meditation 17 mins |
Deep sleep and Vitality renewal |
3 |
Exhaustion and subtle disharmonies |
Lying down Chakra Sounds Meditation 1 hour |
Deep sleep and Subtle Balance |
4 |
Routines, Guidance and Audio Accompaniment
Click the routines below
Click the routines below
PRAYER MEDITATION TO UNBLOCK THE CHAKRAS IN SLEEP
This technique is best to be done at night in darkened room, going to sleep immediately afterwards or it can be done in the morning but it must be followed by 15 minutes rest otherwise you will feel as if you are drunk, in a stupor. This merging with energy is prayer. It changes you and when you change the whole existence changes.
First stage: Raise both your hands towards the sky, palms uppermost, head up, just feeling existence flowing in you. As the energy or prana flows down your arms you will feel a gentle tremor – be like a leaf in the breeze, trembling. Allow it, help it. Then let your whole body vibrate with energy and just let whatever happens happen.
Second stage: After two or three minutes, or whenever you feel completely filled, lean down to the earth and kiss it. You simply become a vehicle to allow the divine energy to unite with that of the earth.
These two stages should be repeated six more times so that each of the charkas can become unblocked. More times can be done but if you do it less you will feel restless and unable to sleep.
MEDITATION FOR A MORE DEEPLY REFRESHING SLEEP
You may not be sleeping well in the night. Very few people are sleeping well, so when you have not slept well in the night you are a little tired during the day. If that is the case, then do something with your sleep. It should be made deeper. Time is not much of a question - you can sleep for eight hours, and if it is not deep you will feel hungry for sleep, starved - depth is the question.
Every night before you go to sleep do a small technique, and that will help tremendously. Put the lights off, sit in your bed ready to sleep, but sit for fifteen minutes.Close your eyes and then start any monotonous nonsense sound, for example: la, la, la - and wait for the mind to supply new sounds. The only thing to be remembered is those sounds or words should not be of any language that you know. If you know English, German, Italian, then they should not be of Italian, German, English. Any other language is allowed that you don't know - Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese. But if you know Japanese then it is not allowed, then Italian is wonderful.
Speak any language that you don't know. You will be in a difficulty for few seconds only for the first day, because how do you speak a language you don't know? It can be spoken, and once it starts, any sounds, nonsense words, just to put the conscious off and allow the unconscious to speak.... When the unconscious speaks, the unconscious knows no language.
It is a very, very old method. And it is a wonderful method, one of the most deep and penetrating into the unconscious. You start by saying "la, la, la," and then anything that comes you go on. Just for the first day you will feel it is a little difficult. Once it comes, you know the knack of it. Then for fifteen minutes, use the language that is coming to you, and use it as a language; in fact you are talking in it. This will relax the conscious so deeply.
Fifteen minutes - and you then just simply lie down and go to sleep. Your sleep will become deeper. Within weeks you will feel a depth in your sleep, and in the morning you will feel completely fresh.
15 mins of silence for gentle devavani followed by a meditation bell [Download]
Meditator Notes: In a crowded house, this can be done in a bathroom or in a car, for privacy reasons. Then come back, sit on the bed and mentally continue for 60 secs, before lying down and falling asleep.
MEDITATION TO MAKE BLOCKS DISAPPEAR IN SLEEP
Before you go to sleep in the night, just lie down,
turn the lights off, lie down under your blanket,
and feel your body is dying.
Start from the toes and feel that they are dying and move slowly upwards:
the legs are dying, the thighs are dying; go on moving upwards and let the whole body die.
It will take at least five to seven minutes;
slowly slowly you come to the head and all is dead.
When you feel that all is dead, finished, that the body is a corpse,
then do a small meditation which will be of immense help.
Start feeling that great light is entering from the head, golden light
-- as if suddenly a sun has risen and it is pouring all its gold into you.
It is going in, going in, going in...
the whole body has become a hollow bamboo and the light is falling in
and passing through like a flood, and it goes out from the toes.
For five minutes let this happen, then after five minutes --
just approximately, you need not look at the watch,
just approximately -- after five minutes change the whole process.
Now start thinking of a dark energy, negative --
like a dark night with not a single star in it,
a dark energy flow entering from the toes, moving upwards,
filling the whole bamboo, the hollow body, and going out from the head.
Five minutes of that, and then go to sleep.
This will synchronize the positive and negative energy inside your body.
It will synchronize your man and woman inside the body,
your yin and yang, your day and night, your life and death.
First life, the golden light, then death, the darkness...
and enjoy both, because both are beautiful.
This for five and the first part for five minutes, and seven minutes first to have the body absolutely dead so it creates no hindrance.
This passing of the golden light and the darkness will help tremendously.
Every day you will feel those blocks are disappearing for no other work is needed on them.
And one (active) meditation every day.
To keep things simple for you, we recommend you download the audio guidance to play from your smartphone etc when you are about to fall asleep tonight.
(This section is currently being rewritten)
Sleep Meditation : Remaining alert in Dreams
Sleep Meditation : Remaining alert in Dreams
OSHO has discussed several approaches to this. We will upload the talks one at a time. Below is a tool for awareness during sleep.
The audio below helps to receive gentle reminders to be alert during sleep. The audio plays for 8 hours, and has 4 cycles of 2 hours each. Each stage contains 1 hour 50 mins of silence, and 10 mins of an OSHO discourse that will gently wake you from dreams, so you can be a little alert before you fall asleep again.
Often the above audio does not play due to mobile browser limitations or device/computer sleeping and so you can also download the music file from here to your computer, transfer it to your device and just play it on your device. Those of us who are impatient can set our device to never sleep ( eg. instructions for iphone/ipad , android , mac , windows), plug it into your charger, click the button above, place the screen facing the bed and go to sleep.
Enjoy with a nourishing cup of milk in the morning as a reward for your night of meditation.
Enjoy with a nourishing cup of milk in the morning as a reward for your night of meditation.
