The practice of yoga nidra brings a deep state of relaxation ( nidra, also translated as "the sleep of the yogi") that causes the mind to the concentration: the exclusion of external stimuli and directing attention inward, it reaches a state between wakefulness and sleep, associated with a presence or attention accommodation, which makes contact with the unconscious, the emotions and images that live in us.
The mind, guided by the voice of the teacher, is separated from the senses and driven into a state of profound stillness, and the consciousness operates at a deeper level of consciousness, brain waves are alpha, features state of relaxation and dream consciousness, allowing a reduction in the levels of circulating hormones, metabolic and endocrine stress (lactate, testosterone, adrenaline, dopamine beta-hydroxylase. Source: New Inglese Journal of Medicine).
Yoga nidra can be useful as a practice prior to sleep to promote a deep relaxation, eliminating bedtime tensions in the body and the thoughts that stir the mind. can also be used as time to recover physical and mental strength to balance the energy loss created by the tension and stress.
Above all, yoga nidra is a meditative technique that induces internalization (pratyahara), removing the sensory attention from the outside and from the physical body and promoting inner listening. This is accomplished using a precise technique which consists of a rotation of consciousness, awareness, on the various parts of the body, the shift of attention to the breath and then finally to the thoughts and feelings, until the mind breaks away from all this, we can receive what emerges from the unconscious in terms of images and emotions. Yoga nidra is therefore a way to "go inside", through the consciousness of the outside world to that of the inner world. This is the necessary step to occur later in a spontaneous meditation.
0 comments:
Post a Comment