“Yoga Nidra Yoga Meditation
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works extremely well…
- can you tell me why and how it works so much better than things like hypnosis and popular approaches like ‘The Secret’ ? “~ Helen Porter
Yoga Nidra reply from James Traverse, “This Yoga practice works because the natural guided meditation process allows you to relax you thinking, or conscious mind, and thereby access and activate the profound intelligence of what some folks call your subconscious or superconscious mind. And the resolution and resolve that you prepare prior to the practice work like planting a seed, watering it and providing a healthy environment where it can unfold and grow.
The Yoga Nidra process differs from hypnosis and approaches like ‘The Secret’ because it is not based on wishful thinking or some kind of genie that will grant you wishes. This particular yoga relaxation meditation is an ancient process that has stood the test of time, and, unlike hypnotism where your resolutions and resolve are presented by the hypnotist, this meditation practice guides you to set your own prior to a session – this means that during the session there is nothing for your conscious mind to do other than relax and allow your natural Awareness to act on the resolve and resolution that you set.
Lastly, Nidra Yoga Meditation is akin to deep sleep and its process has been documented and irrefutably proven by modern science as follows:
In the process of ‘going’ to sleep your mind relaxes from the waking beta level of activity, then as the first of your sleep cycles unfold [each cycle usually lasts about 90 minutes] your mind ‘falls’ through the deeper levels of alpha and theta and ‘rests’ at the deepest or delta level where repair and restoration occur.
In Yoga Nidra practice the same mental relaxation happens with the distinction that you remain aware and ‘awake’ at the deepest level of intelligence where the resolve and reslolution that you set earlier are activated and nurtured.
In other words just as modern science has proven that at the deepest levels of the native intelligence of your bodymind complex, Awareness acts to restore and repair your body and rest your mind as deep sleep unfolds, in the same manner it is Awareness during your relaxation practice that activates and processes the resolve and resolution that you set prior to your session.
- the results seem magical yet they are truly simple and scientific when you understand the process.”
YOGA NIDRA
Relax Your Mind Restore Your Body Release Your Spirit
What is Yoga Nidra?
It is a guided relaxation that is a natural experiential meditation process akin to Deep Sleep wherein you as a doer is absent and you as being is present. It is a means to access the highest power and deepest intelligence of your true nature knowingly.
Nidra Yoga is also experiential as it is the practice of Yoga Nidra. The distinction is that Nidra Yoga is a way of being that is global in nature, like the ocean, and Nidra is a specific meditation technique within this way of being, like a wave.
The closest translation of the word Nidra is sleep, and, the word Yoga means union or connection. In this approach the union of yoga is realized experientially as the continuity of being that unfolds when the mind is silent and there is no doer. The truth of this is glimpsed in the practice of Yoga Nidra and it is lived knowingly in daily life as the practice of Nidra Yoga.
This yoga approach is paradoxical as it uses the process of deep sleep to wake up to your true nature and cultivates a way of being that flowers in and as everyday life. It is beyond the measure of the thinking mind as it is knowing as being that embraces functioning according to the laws of natural order – for example: thoughts and memories associated with name and form are used functionally yet knowing as being means that the suffering, limitation and separation of identification via the thinking mind is absent.
In this light Yoga Nidra Meditation and Nidra Yoga are the direct, experiential approach to your true nature.
“Just before waking up from sleep, there is a very brief state, free from thought.
…That should be made permanent. “ ~ Bhagvan Sri Ramana Maharshi
