Yoga
Nidra Prints an idea in subconscious Mind |
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are yogic techniques by practicing which an adept and perfected
yogi can get a direct vision of the samskaras imprinted in
the mind of the yogi himself and also in that of any other
person. Yoga-Nidra can be practiced by persons who may not
be adept in yoga and there is no indispensability to know
the Unconscious and bring its conflicts to awareness in other
that benefits from yoga-nidra may be obtained.
Yoga-Nidra tries to print an idea in the Subconscious or the
Unconscious. In special situations, it also tries to erase
an idea out of the Subconscious or the Unconscious. The former
action is positive; the latter action is negative. A sankalpa
(resolve) is printed. By repeated practice, the printing is
reinforced so that the sankalpa is recorded in the Subconscious
or the Unconscious or both. In the process of erasure, an
undesirable mental print, already nested in the Subconscious
or the Unconscious, is removed through the fresh printing
of a desirable sankalpa as a substitute of the already printed
undesirable idea. In this process, the already nested idea
is erased first and the new idea is printed next. Of course,
both these functions take place synchronously. |
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The
waking state is not very conducive to the receptivity of the
Subconscious or the Unconscious. In the state of deep sleep
(susupti), it is not practicable to repeat the sankalpa and
stamp it on the Subconscious or the Unconscious. One's awareness
is not operative in the sleeping state. Hence, an ideal state
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created by a special technique of yoga-Nidra. This ideal yoga-Nidra
state is neither wakeful nor sleeping. It is a state intermediate
between the waking and the sleeping ones. It is a twilight
area, similar to the junction between night and day in the
early morning or between the sunset and the evening, when
the sun is below the western horizon.
The ordinary person’s behavior is very much influenced
by pleasure and pain. He has passion (raga) for pleasure.
He has aversion (dvesa) to pain. To get rid of some bad habits,
such as smoking, alcoholism, drug-addiction, etc., yoga-Nidra
makes use of aversion therapy, which is designed to make a
subject averse to an existing habit.
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The
Sanskrit word preya means ‘pleasurable’. A person
is instinctually attracted towards that which is preya. But,
what is preya may not necessarily be sreya (good, useful and
beneficial). It is ideal to do what is both preya and sreya.
But, in the absence of this ideal condition, what is sreya
is to be preferred to what is preya. Yoga-Nidra, by its repeated
sankalpa-therapy, can inject the idea of sublimation by which
the subject overcomes the gravitating influence of pravrtti
(strong propensity for attachment and indulgence). |
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