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What is the relationship between tension and relaxation?

Tension arises from unawareness and the burdens of the past and future; relaxation is your natural state when you embrace the present with acceptance and awareness.

— Osho
According to Osho, tension is never required by life; it is born inside you from unawareness, impatience, comparison and competition, and from living in past or future. Relaxation is your natural state when you are simply aware and present, accepting yourself as you are. Bring relaxed awareness to every ordinary act, and tension dissolves into clarity and celebration.

Tension comes from your own hurried, comparing mind; relax by paying attention to what you’re doing right now and being okay with yourself.