Osho - Relaxation Through Massage: A Journey of Love and Touch

“Relaxation comes to you when there is no urge for activity; the energy is at home, not moving anywhere. If a certain situation arises, you will act but not find an excuse to act. You are at ease with yourself. Relaxation is to be at home.”  

Do it like a game. Don't do it like a job;

you should make it a game and take it as your leisure time -

you should just enjoy it. Laugh and let your patients laugh too. Massage is something you can start but you will never finish.

The more you do it, the more you will learn, and your experience will deepen. Massage is one of the most sophisticated arts - and it is not just a matter of expertise. It is more a question of love ...

Learn the technique and then forget it. Then, you just have to feel and transfer energy according to that feeling.

When you study this field deeply, you understand that ninety percent of the work is done by love, ten percent by technique. Just by a very attentive and loving touch, something is already calmed in the patient's body.

If you love and feel compassion for the patient and feel his quality

if you do not treat him as if he were a mechanism that needs to be fixed but an energy of immense value,

if you are grateful that he trusts you and allows you to work with His energy, you will gradually feel like you are playing the piano.

The whole body becomes the keys of the piano, and you can feel that harmony is created within the body. This will be helpful not only to the patient but also to you.

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There is a need for massage in the world because love has disappeared. Once you love, that is enough.

In the past, a mother touched her child and caressed his body, and that was a massage. A husband touched his wife's body, and that was a massage; that was enough, more than enough. It was a deep relaxation for all involved and a natural and inseparable part of love. But that has disappeared from the world. We have forgotten where to touch, how to touch, how deeply to touch. Touch is one of the most forgotten languages. It is almost embarrassing how much people have corrupted the word touch. They have given it a sexual connotation. The word has become sexual, and people have begun to fear touch. Everyone is on guard against being touched.

No, in the West,t the other extreme has come. Touch and massage have become only sexual.

Now, massage is just a cover, a code name for sexuality. Neither touch nor massage is sexual. They are functions of love.

When love falls from a height, it becomes sex. So, during the massage, you must be in prayer. When you touch a person's body, be in prayer - as if God is there under your hands, and you are only serving him. Flow energy throughout the body. And every time you see the body flowing and the energy creating a new pattern of harmony, you will feel a pleasure you have never felt before. You will naturally fall into deep meditation. During the massage, be only in the massage. Do not think about other things because these are unnecessary distractions. Live for an hour only in the fingers of your hands, as if your whole being, your whole soul, is there. Do not let it be just a touch of the body. Your entire soul enters the body of the other, penetrates it, and soothes its most profound complexes.

~ Osho ~