It is not uncommon to come across a post like this: “I feel like I have too many thoughts running through my head. It makes me feel like my body can’t keep up with my thought process. I’m too exhausted. I get depressed when I can’t get something done properly. I don’t feel like I’m productive enough. I get sick with cold a lot and have trouble getting on a good sleep schedule.” There were many “likes” on this post and some “ditto” signs too. The check-ups at the doctor show that this person is healthy. Then what is wrong? These are the symptoms of being alienated from the body.
Working with touch screens, voicemails or other “hands-free” devices, we are losing touch with our body; we use the body minimally. Not using the hands and the body enough has generated illnesses that cannot be cured by medicine. Osho says, in the first place the hands should be warm and the head should be cool. But when there is too much of thinking, the head will be warm and the hands will be cool. That is unhealthy. You are moving towards madness. A time will come when the head will start functioning on its own, unconnected with the whole body. But Osho offers a quick-fix to this problem.
“Whenever you feel that there is too much thinking, and you cannot stop it, rub both your hands fast, make them hot by rubbing, add your imagination that they are becoming warmer, and suddenly you will feel the head has stopped, the energy is moving in the hands.”
