1.
Stamping a positive thought - A positive thought,
well for the body and the mind can be stamped on the subconscious
or the unconscious. It stays there, influences the physical
life, the mental life and the spiritual life. Any desirable
trait can be acquired by the practice of yoga-nidra. Any good
habit that is longed for can be adopted by the practice of
this technique.
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2. The negative of a negative thought - Sometimes
an individual is inflicted with negative thoughts. Sometimes
he develops bad habits and becomes a victim to his habits.
Through yoga-nidra, he can get rid of his negative thoughts
and bad habits. He develops distaste for the negative. He
starts liking the positive. In this total process, the negative
idea or the bad habit is to be erased or imprinted in the
subconscious or the unconscious mind as a substitute for the
formerly printed thought.
3. Annihilating the pernicious
undercurrent - A number of diseases are psychosomatic
or psycho visceral. Their root is in the psyche and branches,
with leaves, flowers and fruits, in the physique. The root
may be in the subconscious, or it may still be deeper, lying
in the unconscious. The Freudian psychoanalysis tries to render
the unconscious idea conscious. The person who suffers from
the psychosomatic disorder or disease is made conscious of
the affects some body organs without the knowledge of the
person who suffers. The yoga-nidra technique erases the imprinted
idea from the subconscious and the unconscious.
4. Normalizing the body functions - Sometimes
the physiological functions of the body organs and tissues
are altered. The body organ or tissue may be hypo-active or
hyperactive. There may be hormonal imbalance. For all such
physiological disorders, yoga-nidra may be a potent tool to
correct the defect.
5. Normalizing the biochemical activities of the body
- The body is a huge biochemical workshop. A large number
of biochemical's are synthesized in the body. Sometimes, some
biochemical is not synthesized at all, or, if synthesized,
is excessively produced or produced at a rate below the normal
level. Some other times, the utilization and the degradation
of a biochemical are not normal.
6. Correcting and potentiating the immune system
- The immune system of the body is its defense department.
On the failure of the immune system, no doctor can help and
no medicine can work. It is impossible to live in a situation
of the total failure of the immune system. Sometimes, the
immune system works; but its working is inefficient. In the
former situation, yoga-nidra brings the immune system back
to a functional state. In the latter situation, yoga-nidra
strengthens the activity of the immune system.
7. Spiritual attainment - Yoga-nidra can
be a means to spiritual attainment and to the final end of
liberation. All the recordings in the karmasaya of the unconscious
located in the causal body can be erased. With the total erasure,
the karmasaya vanishes, and the remainder is the 'individual
self'. As a matter of fact, the self is no longer individual
since it is not bound at this state. The self, without the
karmasaya, is the same as the Universal (Great) Self or the
Paramatma. Nevertheless, the 'self' has been qualified here
as 'individual' since it is still in a body, although not
bound by the latter. This is the jivanmukta state - free although
still living.
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