Stress, anxiety, and tiredness are now an integral part of our lives. The non-stop, fast-paced living has pushed every individual to lead an unwelcoming stressful existence, which is unlikely to go away any soon. While some people face nervousness only under extreme work pressure or personal life, others go through such episodes daily. But every bad weather has a silver lining. If you’re confident enough, you can completely change
Yoga Nidra is just like meditation, only while being half-asleep! Also called yoga sleep, Yoga Nidra is a state of half-consciousness where you stay between being awake or asleep. It simply is a ‘going to sleep’ stage induced by guided meditation or a skilled instructor. As one of the easiest yoga asanas, Yoga Nidra makes practitioners rest comfortably in savasana (corpse pose). The yoga sleep then takes the person through the Pancha Maha kosha (five layers of self) in a simple and gradual manner, helping them feel light with a sense of wholeness. Yoga Nidra has been proven to help you eliminate body sores, aches, tiredness, and stress and feel more relaxed and rejuvenated. With regular practice, Yoga Nidra helps a person become active and full of life, leaving their dull, tired self behind.
There are several benefits of practicing Yoga Nidra, including improved sleep and relaxation. Here, we list five benefits of Yoga Nidra to help you monitor and experience the changes in your stressful life after indulging in yogic sleep
All along the day, 24/7, we spend our time thinking about the ‘next’ thing; work, food, friends, or family. We often forget to enjoy the present because we’re worried about the future. Yoga Nidra helps you detach from your continuous train of thoughts and enter a thought-free mind for nearly a few minutes every day. Such a practice, when done regularly, is healthy as it helps the mind to relax.
For how many hours do you roll on your bed before sleep finally comes to you? If the answer is anything between 1 to 5 hours, you need to practice Yoga Nidra for sleep. As lack of sleep contributes highly to the stress and tiredness in life, Yoga Nidra comes as a respite to help you overcome your insomnia problem and go to sleep on time. Yoga Nidra helps you sleep by slowing your mind’s wavelengths as you enter a subconscious sleep-like state. The process usually begins with you focusing your attention on different body parts and mindfully taking slow, deep breaths to trigger a relaxation response throughout the body. Such a response balances both your left and right brain parts and the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
Like how sleeping helps you get ready for another day of work and adventure, yogic sleep helps you release build-up muscle tension in your body and mind. In just a few minutes (roughly 15 to 20 minutes) of Yoga Nidra practice, you’ll feel as good as new. Your body would not feel sore, and your mind will have new, fresh thoughts without the tension of the past or the future. However, any of these benefits would not come in only a couple of practice sessions. Only by regular exercising Yoga Nidra for sleep would you be able to feel your body and mind free of stress and tension elements.
The chaos of work life and personal life is all around us, and we seldom get to spend time with ourselves. Even when we’re alone, we tend to sit in front of the big screen or scroll on our smartphones. But Yoga Nidra helps you to detach from these materialistic attachments and spend some time with yourself. If you follow the above instructions by the step, you’re sure to experience oneness with yourself, where you connect with your inner self without any worry in the world
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