It is this set of relationships - between the conscious and unconscious layers of the mind, and their influence on the body and our overall sense of well being - that Osho addresses in a revolutionary technique he developed in 1989, just two months before he left the body. It started as an experiment with his own body, when his shoulder was giving him a great deal of pain. According to notes taken by his secretary at the time, Osho told his shoulder to "drop the pain" and it did - literally! - as the pain dropped from the shoulder first into the arm, and then the leg. But he kept on experimenting, and invited others also to experiment with a technique of talking to the body and asking it to drop the pain, that it was no longer needed and once gone there was no need to bring it back. Over the next few days and weeks, a new meditative therapy of "Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body and Mind" was born. It is now offered as a seven-day series of one-hour sessions at the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune, India, and offered around the world by individuals who have been trained in the process.

A Holistic Understanding

This revolutionary process developed by Osho has now been packaged as a guided meditation CD together with a book titled Body-Mind-Balancing. Its publication means that it will soon be available to hundreds of thousands more people around the world, including individuals who can practice it on their own and health professionals and counselors who can recommend it to their clients.

The book has been created using a variety of selections from talks by Osho, and begins by looking at the ideas we have about the body and our relationship to it that we may not be aware of. Almost everybody has been brought up with life-negative attitudes and conditionings against the body, especially from the traditional religions. And well-meaning attempts by parents and teachers to "civilize" children and help them to be accepted into society often end up repressing their natural exuberance and vitality, the sharpness of their senses, and their curiosity about their own bodies.

As adults we can't do anything to change our own history and upbringing -- but we can become aware of the hidden elements of that upbringing, and how they have affected us. The magic is that in the very process of becoming aware, previously unconscious attitudes begin to lose their power over us and we can begin to make new and more life-affirmative choices for ourselves. Once this new foundation is established, we find that we become more aware of the body and its real needs, more grateful and appreciative of its miraculous workings on our behalf, and better able to work with it, not against it, to achieve the goals we set for ourselves.

Physical health and psychological well being are deeply related and interdependent. Body-Mind-Balancing provides both the conscious understanding and the practical tools that are needed to support this partnership of body and mind. The book also includes specific guidance about how the guided meditation CD is to be used.

An International Creative Effort

Creating the new Body-Mind-Balancing package was an international effort, coordinated by Osho International in New York and Osho Multimedia at the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune, India. Audio recordings for the guided meditation CD were mastered with the help of a crew of literally dozens of people from all over the world, working together over a period of weeks and months in Osho Multimedia. Musicians and translators, sound engineers and computer wizards, worked together with facilitators trained in the process to create CDs in 17 languages that people can use on their own, at home, to support the process. Audio masters for the CDs have been created for English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Greek, Russian and Hindi.

The text for the book has already been translated in many of these languages, and is still in process in others. The book-and-CD package is already available in the marketplace in German, Spanish and Chinese, and will be published in English and many other languages over the coming months (see list below). Find out when Body-Mind-Balancing will be available in your language by periodically checking the osho.com website.

IN PRINT - or COMING SOON

• English - St. Martin's Press (2004)
  
• Chinese - Life Potential Publications (published 2003)
  
• Danish - Aschehoug Dansk Forlag A/S (2004)
  
• German - Goldmann Verlag / Arkana (published 2003)
  
• Norwegian - N.W. Damm & Son A/S (2004)
  
• Portuguese - GMT Editores Ltda - Sextante (Brazil 2004)
  
• Spanish - Grupo Editorial Norma (Latin America 2003)
  
• Swedish - Egmont Richter AB (2004)
  
• Polish - Jeden Swiat Publishing (2004)
  
• Greek - under negotitions (2004)
  
• Russian -Dean Publishing - VES Publishing (2004)
  
• Italian - Bompiani (2004)
  
• Korean - in process
  
• Japanese - in process
  
• Hindi - in process
  
• French - in process
  
• Hebrew - in process
  

Follow up information:

The Osho Multiversity at the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune offers a training course for this process on a regular basis. Check the Multiversity schedule at www.osho.com or email: Multiversity@osho.net for details.

The program "Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body and Mind" is available for health centers and meditation centers in all the above-listed languages. If you are interested in offering this program in an organization or center in your country, contact: oshointernational@oshointernational.com. Health professionals who would like more information can also contact this email address.