We all know that regular exercise is essential for our physical health but we often forget that meditation is essential for our mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Meditation gives us an opportunity to disidentify from our mind chatter and negative emotions and experience inner balance. It allows us to free ourselves from fear and suffering created by our ego-mind. A dedicated meditation practice can lead to increased self-acceptance, self-confidence, improved health, and deeper understanding of ourselves
and others.

What is Meditation?

The essence of meditation is a detached observation or
witnessing of whatever happens inside (the body, mind,
and emotions) and outside (the world around you) without
reaction or judgment. Through learning to observe you stop
fueling your desires, thoughts and emotions and settle your
awareness in the silent stillness of your being.

Passive Verses Active Meditation

At their core, there is no difference between active and
passive meditations. Their intent is the same – to empty
the mind and help you connect with and strengthen
your inner witness.

Traditionally, meditation has been practiced through
passive sitting and watching the breath, body, and mind.
This meditation technique is known as Vipassana and
was devised by the Buddha 2,500 years ago. Passive
sitting and observation was much easier to practice in
Buddha’s time because people lived closer to nature and
were more relaxed and heart-centered than we are today.

Our modern lifestyle is dramatically different. We function
at a much higher speed and are overwhelmed with information
overload. We are bombarded with electromagnetic waves
that undermine out immune system, and advertising that
feeds our desire for material things. We have a poor diet,
lack sleep and our stress levels are very high. When we
are faced with this increasingly fast-paced lifestyle and
are preoccupied with worries and aches and pains, quieting
the mind through passive sitting becomes a monumental
task that very few are able to achieve.

The quickest way to relax and experience a peaceful
meditative state of pure consciousness in this day and
age is through Active Meditation. Many people find Active
Meditations easier and more enjoyable to practice because
they help to quickly release accumulated stress from the
body and mind, and allow even the busiest minds to
experience silent gaps of inner peace with much less effort.

What is Active Meditation?

Active Meditation is an evolutionary process of releasing
our stress and pent up emotions from the body while
simultaneously being engaged in witnessing and dis-
identifying from our thoughts and emotions.

There are several evolutionary Active Meditation
techniques devised by the Indian mystic Osho for the
contemporary man and woman. They have been
practiced by millions of people around the globe since
the mid 1970’s with outstanding results. These meditation
techniques aid the modern-day seeker to experience
inner silence and stillness a lot faster than what can
be achieved through a long practice of passive sitting.

The Osho Active Meditations incorporate a sequence
of four to five stages and come with pre-recorded CDs,
which help the meditator to playfully transition from
one stage to the next. While practicing them, you can
laugh, cry, jump, shake, run, hum, shout, dance, and
be free to express whatever you have been suppressing.
Once the repressed thoughts and emotions are released,
it becomes much easier to become conscious of and
experience peace and no-mind in the silent sitting
phase of the meditation.

The benefits of Active Meditation

Active Meditation will help you:

•  detoxify your body of pent up thoughts and
emotions

•  relax and heal physical pain

•  improve digestion and lose weight 

•  heal mental and emotional wounds

•  transform fear and anxiety and experience inner peace

•  gain self-confidence and uncover your inner strength

•  achieve a deeper understanding of yourself and others

5 of the Most Practiced Active Meditation Techniques
Below is a list of 5 favorite Active Meditation Techniques
practiced around the world:

Kundalini Meditation by Osho

Dynamic Meditation by Osho

Nadabrahma by Osho

Chakra Breathing by Osho

No-Yes Active Meditation by Eliza Mada Dalian

It is best is to experiment with all of these meditation
techniques and choose a couple that you find most
enjoyable to practice with on a regular bases. Even
if you choose only one meditation technique, but do
it regularly (at least once or twice a week) you will
be rewarded with powerful transformation in your
personal, spiritual, and work life.

A self-realized mystic, spiritual teacher, and internationally
acclaimed master healer, Eliza Mada Dalian is founder of
the Dalian Method™ for Health and Consciousness, an
accelerated technique that takes the concepts of healing and
awakening to a groundbreaking new level. She is the creator
of the No-Yes Active Meditation CD and Transforming the
Fear of Death & the Unknown MP3 download, and author
of the Nautilus award-winning book In Search of the
Miraculous: Healing Into Consciousness, which Deepak
Chopra endorsed as “a simple and elegant map of the path
of enlightenment.” Eliza Mada Dalian travels internationally,
offering workshops, private sessions, and self-healing seminars
and retreats, to individuals, children, and organizations.

Join Eliza Mada Dalian at the Omega Institute for a life-
changing weekend retreat July 29 to 31^st, 2011 to experience
different Active Meditations and her evolutionary Dalian
Method for Health and Consciousness.

See details at www.madadalian.com