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<p>BEFORE going to sleep, put off the light, sit on your bed, close your eyes, and exhale deeply through the mouth with the sound &#39;oh&#39;. Your stomach goes in, the air moves out, you go on creating the sound &#39;oh&#39;. Remember I am not saying &#39;aum&#39;, I am simply saying &#39;oh&#39;. It will become aum automatically; you need not make it aum. Then it will be false. You simply create the sound &#39;oh&#39;. You will go on relaxing, and your sleep will have a different quality altogether different. And your sleep has to be changed. Only then can you become more alert and aware. So we will start by changing the sleep. When you have exhaled completely with your mouth creating the sound &#39;oh&#39; and you feel now no more exhalation is possible, when the breath has gone out, stop for a single moment. Do not inhale; do not exhale. Stop! In that stop you are the divine. In that stop you are not doing anything, not even breathing. In that stop you are in the ocean. Time is no more there because time moves with the breath. It is as if the whole existence has stopped with you. In that stopping you can become alert about the deepest source of your being and energy. So for a single moment, stop. Then inhale through the nose. But do not make any effort to inhale. Remember, make all the effort to exhale, but do not make any effort to inhale. Just let the body inhale. You simply relax your hold, and let the body take the inhalation. You do not do anything. Life breathes by itself; it moves by itself on its own course. It is a river; you unnecessarily go on pushing it. You will see that the body is taking the inhalation. Your effort is not needed, your ego is not needed, you are not needed. You simply become a watcher. You simply see the body taking the inhalation. A deep silence will be felt. When the body has taken a full inhalation, stop for a single moment again. Then again watch. These two moments are totally different. When you have exhaled completely and stopped, that stopping is just like death. When you have inhaled totally and then stopped, that stopping is the climax of life. Remember, inhalation is equivalent to life, exhalation is equivalent to death.</p>
