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Body Mind Balancing: Using Your Mind to Heal Your Body

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For 4 months I was going though a health crisis, which could not be identified by the doctors and left me drained, exhausted and very worried. A friend handed me this wonderful book with a guided meditation by Anando Hershley.
I started my mornings with relaxing in bed and go into the process of 'The Forgotten language of talking to my body'.
This is a wonderful process invented by Osho to connect with the sub-conciousness
here called 'The Guardian' and to allow the body to take over its own healing process.
It connects the healing processes of the body with the mind and spirit. This process worked for me and I highly recommend it.

An excellent book! It is a compilation of parts of Osho's talks. People of today have got out of touch with their own body. Even donkeys know what to eat, what their body needs, what is good for them, but man does not? Osho talks of regaining that intuition, getting friendly with the body, listening to it. Most other books and teachers just give blind rules to follow: eat this, and don't eat that, do so and so, and don't do so and so. But Osho talks of "listening" to our body, so that we naturally and spontaneously know what the body needs. The feeling that comes is something to experience.
The CD included with this book is one of Osho's Meditative Therapies. I did it after having gone through his active meditations. And I have a *personal opinion* that it will work better after trying active meditations for a while.
He answers many questions, about food, health, relaxation...
An amazing and incomparable book..

The concept of BODY MIND BALANCING is that our thoughts and ideas have been trained to be one way, while our bodies operate naturally, which generally puts the two at odds. The harder you try to force them together, the more they fight each other. This book hopes to help you find a way to balance them, so that you can function at your highest level mentally, physically, and emotionally. It only follows naturally that if each person could reach their best level, the world as a whole would be better.

This book requires that you keep an open mind. I also found that you have to be willing to take the author with a large grain of salt. There are times when he seems to be overly impressed with his own intelligence and message. He seems to have some issues with major religions in general. Also, not all of his ideas are completely real world practical.

If you can get past those things you'll find that the author makes some very good points in this book. Many of them seem so simple and obvious it's hard to imagine that we don't automatically behave that way. I especially liked the idea/realization that your body knows what it wants and when it wants it. To give it different things when it doesn't want them seems absurd, yet we all do it every day.

Included with the book is a meditation CD. I'm not sure I can review it for you. All guided meditation attempts seem to put me to sleep. Unless it was actually just a really deep state of meditation, in which case, it worked!

Reviewed by: Carrie Spellman

Body Mind Balancing is common knowledge but Osho uses funny everyday life examples to demonstrate where our busy world causes tension and health issues in the body. "Do not fight your body, it is not your foe.". Unlike most other spiritual texts, Osho tells us to celebrate our body, celebrate its natural responses (sleep, sex, rest, anger). It is in our quest to negate or dominate that we create mental and physcial tension.

Our fitness, surgery and body contortion obsessed western culture constantly tells us to do something to our body instead allowing our body to relax and find its own natural rhythm.

Osho reminds us to meditate and listen to the body when identifying the many illnesses that start in the mind, thus resisting the body.

I have struggled with digestive issues, stress headaches and panic attacks. I am witness on how meditation, relaxing and not taking on any additional projects has helped me to ameliorate and soon obliterate my health issues.

Osho's suggestions are to basically go inward, be honest and relax. Three simple steps but often complicated by our self-induced stress filled "responsibilities".

This is of course a very smart book as always is the case with Osho. I was a bit dissapointed because I did not understand before I bought the bookthat the written material as wel as the meditation is for those who have a physical problem and want to solve it. If you have a physical problem, and you like Osho, Buy this book.

recommended. sure, all his books say the same thing. but in different ways. even the heavily edited, theme-based books are priceless.

buy one. and then give it to someone else. pass it on.

OSHO a Great Master like Socrate ...

In my humble opinion every book of Osho is a treasure and give you very important arguments for your personal growing.

Tiziano

I was not impressed by this. Much of it seems to be just rambling on, not making many good or new points. The writing is very poor and much of it is common sense pointed out as if it is a great revelation.

Not much new in this book of Rashneesh What's his name turned Osho. Hung up on sex to be sure, but everything else he says has been said by others in hundreds of books, lectures...and said better and with less emphasis on the genital area. I bought it because a friend said she liked him. I should have given the money to some of the homeless I meet on the streets. More value for my money.
And I have two other of his books to plough through...but will probably give away before I get too far into them unless they really surprise me and that I doubt.