Did you ever wonder how to deeply relax body and mind and find harmony and balance in your life?
Do you know that psychosomatic illness arise from tension in the body and in the mind?
Doctors have been trying to track these problems in different ways but they do not succeed because many of the times the real problem is not in the body but is originated in our way of thinking and in our feelings.
In fact, where there is an unbalance in the energy of the body how can we expect to feel harmony in our body and in our mind?
Nowadays people’s life is overwhelming and stressful and our real problem is how to control all the tension and the anxiety that we accumulate during a working day.
If we can control our tension we can control our emotions. and if we can control our emotions we can relax our mind.
When our mind is really and totally relaxed, our body feels better, stronger, healthier and all our life is in balance.
In yoga we deal with the problem of tension and anxiety too. Many inner tensions contribute to psychological tensions that can manistest in unhappy life, disorders, aggression and many other situations.
This is what Yoga Nidra is for.
Yoga Nidra is a deep relaxation state of mind that brings benefits to your brain and your body.
It releases muscular tensions that often are due to imbalance in the nervous system. It removes many emotional tensions that may arise from excessive activities, daily challenging situations, the difficulty to understand our conscious and unconscious behaviors. When we feel irritated or angry for something that happened, we often think that the cause of that state of mind is due to external factors, not from us.
Instead, many times those state of minds depends on the way we perceive events and the meaning that we give to those events. All these situations contribute to accumulate tensions in our mind.
Yoga Nidra allows us to deeply dive down into our subconscious mind, release the tensions and establish harmony in our being.
Resting more efficiently is another benefit arising from practicing Yoga Nidra.
Many times we think we can relax simply closing our eyes or sleeping. The truth is that even during sleep our mind continues working ad thinking and worrying about things, and when we wake up we may still feel overwhelmed and exhausted.
Practicing Yoga Nidra we can instead relax completely and deeply, removing all the inner tensions in the body and all emotions from the mind.
Receptivity increases because when the mind is melting you can impress good and creativity on it. This is what Yoga Nidra does, awakening the emotional structure of the mind.
In Yoga Nidra you don’t have to necessarily concentrate, in fact you should not at all. You should only keep the mind moving from one point to another, following your teacher’s instructions, and stay aware of any experience you may have during the journey.
When you don’t try to concentrate at all, the conscious mind is inactive and the natural flow of awareness takes the mind deeper into the Self.
Whether you hear your teachers instructions or not, does not matter. You should never sleep during Yoga Nidra…… You should just keep telling yourself “I won’t sleep… I won’t sleep”,
but even if you fall asleep for a while, the suggestions made by your teacher will continue working on your subconscious mind and your subconscious will continue be aware of what’s happening outside.
So, during the Yoga Nidra practice don’t worry about anything, don’t overthink…. just relax, listen and stay awake and aware.
Most people who practice Yoga Nidra in their daily life experience deep changes in their sleeping habits, they experience a better and profound and really relaxing way of sleeping.
You have to know that one hour of yoga Nidra corresponds to four hours of conventional sleep. That’s why Yoga Nidra can be practiced also in the office even during a short break, for 15-20 minutes.
The mind becomes such relaxed and rejuvenated that this translates into more efficiency at work, more clear mind, more positive energy more strength and more positive thoughts.
All these positive things happening in your mind will translate in feeling your body good and healthy.
The brain is just a physical mediator of consciousness, linking together the mind, the body and the emotions in just one thing.
Stimulating the brain the body is affected. Yoga Nidra works from the opposite side of this pathway, it intensifies the awareness of the body in order to stimulate the brain. The awareness flowing through the different parts of the body induces physical relaxation, clears all the nerves pathways to the brain.
This is the way Yoga Nidra relaxes the mind by relaxing the body.
During the practise of Yoga Nidra it hapens that people starts remembering things and situations that their conscious mind had forgotten. This means that the uncoscious mind is starting manifesting.
We are not normally allowed to access information from our unconscious mind because our awareness is active only at the conscious level. But through the total relaxation that is possible with Yoga Nidra, we can recall and re-experience those information, re-elaborate them, change their meaning in a positive way, and so change our perception about those information that were stored in our deepest mind.
Deep relaxation and awareness of the body and the Self, allows to change in a positive way the inner world. Changing our inner world will also change our outer world and everything that surrounds us.
To feel the real benefits of Yoga Nidra, go to the “Yoga classes” button and book your session of Yoga Nidra.
Yoga will save the World.
Namaste,
Sabina Liberatore