What is Yoga Nidra?

While the popular use of Yoga Nidra is for relaxation, recuperation from stress, and healing from illness, it can offer you much more than this.

Yoga Nidra is a precious and ancient meditation technique that enables you to relax deeply and to become more aware of your subconscious mind.

By tapping into your subconscious, which is the deeper part of you, you gain access to innate knowledge and wisdom that can positively transform your life. Within you lie strengths, abilities and energies that you can use for healing and improving your life in many ways.

Yoga Nidra is the?easiest and most effective form of meditation to create a bridge between conscious awareness and your subconscious mind. It is a tool for mining the strengths and talents that usually lie hidden within you, buried under old patterns.

The complete Yoga Nidra experience occurs in sequential stages:

Stage 1. Rest, recuperate and rejuvenateStage 2. Manage old patterns, undigested negative?memories, emotions and desiresStage 3. Awaken to the experience of your deeper self and your life purpose.

In stages one and two of Yoga Nidra you experience relaxation, restored vitality and psycho-emotional purification. Old, outmoded patterns of feeling and thinking are released from the body-mind through the process of cultivating deep relaxation and a sense of inner control.

Once negative feelings and old conditioning have been released, and effectively dealt with, the intuitive and creative aspects of yourself are progressively revealed as part of easy and enjoyable self-development. You begin to feel and intuit who you are and understand what your deeper self really wants. You are freed from feeling trapped in the superficial desires of your lower, sensory-based thinking mind and begin to access your higher, knowing mind.

Start using Yoga Nidra to experience profound relaxation, recuperation and healing benefits.

The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. ~ Napoleon Hill

Within the practice of Yoga Nidra is the Sankalpa.?Sankalpa is the Sanskrit word for ‘a resolve formed into a statement of intent’.

During the practice of Yoga Nidra the sankalpa is planted deep into the subconscious mind. It is used to empower your most important desires and purpose.?It is most effective when you reach Stage 3 of Yoga Nidra, when you can merge the conscious and unconscious parts of you. However, the sankalpa can also assist you to reach Stage 3.

Finding a sankalpa that works, that positively changes your life and the lives of others, requires self-knowledge. The ability to create a powerful sankalpa that works is an advanced yoga skill.

For many people the sankalpa is a concept that is not well understood. As such, many people, even advanced yoga practitioners, use the sankalpa for years without it ever coming to fruition. They remain unfulfilled despite having what they believe is a worthy sankalpa.?To be effective, the sankalpa has to be true to your nature, your dharma, and you need to understand how to enact it.

To learn how to find and create a powerful sankalpa that is linked to your life purpose enroll in the Find Life Purpose Online Course. This online course provides the knowledge and tools to explore the deepest stages of Yoga Nidra and to find an authentic sankalpa.

Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati and Jayne Stevenson

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