This blog has something truly special to share with you — a technique from Osho that can change your life.
This technique holds the key to discovering your real inner voice that’s been longing to be heard.
Think about it, friends: real happiness comes when we live true to our inner compass. When we listen to our intuition.
But here’s the catch — it’s not always easy to find our authentic inner voice.
Since our childhood, we have been taught to suppress our inner voice. We were imposed on the ideas of many different people – of our parents, teachers, friends, and society. These ideas overpower the voice that’s truly ours.
And that’s where this technique comes in, like a gentle guide to help you reclaim your inner voice amidst the chatter.
So here’s Step 1: “Who’s speaking, please?”
Whatever you are doing, thinking, deciding, ask yourself: Is this coming from me or is someone else speaking?
Can you believe what happens next? You might just uncover whose voice it truly is. Maybe it’s echoes of your parents, your teachers.
Osho says it is not difficult at all to detect. It remains there recorded in you exactly as it was given to you for the first time – the advice, the order, the discipline, or the commandment.
You may find many people: priests, teachers, friends, neighbors, and relatives.
There is no need to fight with these people. Just knowing that it is not your voice but borrowed is enough.
Once you identify that it’s not your own inner voice, you are not going to follow it.
Now, onto Step 2: “Thank you… and goodbye!”
Now, you’ve identified whose voice it is. Instead of battling it, thank the person. And then, gently bid it adieu.
Remember, the person who had given that voice to you was not your enemy. Their intentions were not bad.
It’s a question of freeing yourself from ideas imposed on you.
Osho says once you have told a certain voice clearly, ‘Leave me alone,’ your connection with it, your identity with it, is broken.
It was capable of controlling you because you were thinking it was your voice.
The whole strategy was the identity. Now you know it is not your thoughts, not your voice; it is something foreign to your nature. Recognizing it is enough.
And, what happens next is simply magical.
Once you get rid of the voices that are imposed on you, you will be surprised to hear a still, small voice, which you have never heard before…then a sudden recognition that it is your voice.
That voice, though faint, has always been there. It’s the essence of your authenticity, the core of your being.
And as you nurture this voice, you’ll find a blossoming — a blossoming of understanding, of insight, of knowing.
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