Pause for a moment and ask yourself: Is stress really affect my health? If your answer is "No", then think again. Medical researchers estimate that up to 90% of illness and disease is stress. Something as small as a cold sore for more crippling heart disease and cancer may be complicit stress. Some say that whatever you do, if you work too much or not at all, you still have to accumulate tension on the physical, mental and emotional. While yoga can certainly help, stress and tensions run deep, and may require more attention.
Here you can use Yoga Nidra. More than thirty years ago, adapted Swami Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the famous Bihar School of Yoga in eastern India, the ancient Tantric techniques of meditation in a practice he called Yoga Nidra, which he translated as "Psychic Sleep" . This practice induces a complete relaxation while maintaining consciousness. The Swami has called for the suspension extended wakefulness and sleep, Yoga Nidra "hypnagogic state", confirms that this place has many advantages and major. Here are our deepest levels of creativity and healing energies to awaken.
In this mode, it is possible to change thought patterns - and even the personality for the better. Yogis have known this throughout history, using technology to clean samskaras, or a deep impression, and conditioned behaviors that are the driving forces we need a permanent adverse reactions. Although the depth of change is not your goal, you will be happy to know that Yoga Nidra shows feel refreshed and ready to engage in the world (20-30 minute session of Yoga Nidra is said to be responsible for about 3 hours of sleep deep!).
This is good news that Daniel N. Guerra, Psy.D, Director of Psychological Stress Management, supporters of New York. "In this hectic world we live in, we lost a much-needed connection to our bodies and minds," he explains, "Yoga Nidra helps restore the connection, and is beneficial on several levels. It provides muscle relaxation, improved understanding and control of our emotions and better mental health. "
One of the practices of Yoga Nidra, while he was in Savasana (corpse causes) and follow the voice instructions to a teacher or a recording. In the first phase of the session, you can gradually relax the muscles rapidly rotating awareness of different parts of the body. Swami said that the ancient tantric practice Nyasa (meaning "place" or "having the mind that the point"). Later, other tantric meditations: the awakening sensations polar opposites, the awareness of the whole body, brain and internal organs, and the emotional connections to the country, and the body. The next may be required to focus and rely on breathing in a certain way. The last step is a quick view of the natural images and abstract symbols.
Avid scientist, Swami pull the bottom of each phase. From the point of view of neurophysiology, explains that every body is responsible for monitoring the brain called the motor homunculus. The awareness of the movement in different parts of the body, especially if done regularly, not only relaxes them, but also to clear the neural pathways in parallel areas in this part of the brain. One result is the information less fragmented.
Then meditation on opposite poles stimulates the brain centers responsible for maintaining harmony between indoor and outdoor environments. This helps to balance our fundamental drives. Finally, when asked to quickly view these symbols, the conscious mind has no time to react. You remain detached and the ego becomes temporarily inactive. This phase is to resolve repressed conflicts, desires, memories and samskara.
At the beginning and end of each session, you will be asked to repeat the Sankalpa, or solve. This is a short opinion, to formulate a positive language and present tense. Choose something that you want to develop in his life will have a positive effect. For example, you might be solved: "I'm at home in everything I do." This solution can be inserted deep into your subconscious, where it will bear fruit later in motivating changes in behavior and lifestyle.
The next time you feel tired, roll your mat and quickly - ready for Savasana. Enjoy diving in the deep mystery of calm and Yoga Nidra.
