Relaxation techniques for improving concentration health and physical education
Every individual is trying to adjust in this fast changing world but all in vain. Human being are facing various mental or psychological problem. Yoga nidra is usually referred to as Yogic sleep. It is a systematic method of guided relaxation that has a profound effect on body and mind. Yoga nidra also means Psychic sleep , with complete awareness. In the practice of yoga nidra, the body sleep but the mind remains awake. In the state of yoga nidra is called a state between sleep and wakefulness. with eyes closed . In fact yoga nidra is a very powerful physical and mental relaxation technique.
The complete practice of yoga Nidra of the following stages.
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1. Preparation: Lie down on your back on the floor and adopt the pose of Shavasana. In this position , the body should be straight from head to toe. Legs should be slightly apart and arms should be a little away from the body. Palms should be upwards. Feel comfortable in this position. Close your eyes and take a deep breath.
2. Intention : Take a resolve or Sankalp according to your own wish. It should be short clear and positive. For example, Sankalp may be I will enjoy complete health or I will ever be cheerful.
3. Breath Awareness: you simply become aware of the natural breath without doing any effort to change the flow of the breath. It gives a deeper relaxation and awakens higher energies that can be directed to all the parts of the body.
4. Opposites or Feeling and Sensation: At this stage, allow yourself to experience feeling and sensation Usually it is practised with pairs of opposite feeling like heat and cold, pain and pleasure love and hate.
5. Visualisation: This stage induces mental relaxation. It develop self awareness and relaxes the mind through removal of disturbing material, controls the mind and strengthens concentration ability. it is done by visualisation of variety of different images, objects or situation.
6. Sankalp: Once again Sankalp mentioned in the second point is repeated thrice with complete dedication.
7. Return or Finishing the Practice: This stage is important because if you move fast out of yoga nidra you can feel discontented and uncomfortable. At this stage awareness is externalised slowly so that you can be aware of the external location, sound , object and persons.
The main advantages of practice yoga nidra are stated below.
1. Reduce tension : most people remain under stress and tension which usually create a number of physical and psychological problem. Modern psychology as well as yogic philosophy believes that there are three kinds of tensions muscular emotional and mental tension which can be progressively reduced through regular practice of yoga nidra.
2. Relaxes the mind: The brain is the linking mediator between mind. body and emotion. during the process of yogankdra the awareness of the body stimulates the brain. when the awareness is rotated on the different parts of the body, It induces both physical and mental relaxation. when awareness is rotated repeatedly there is a good flow of pranic energy in the brain which ultimately relaxes the mind.
3. Awakens: Regular practice of yoganidra helps in making a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind. Slowly the individual becomes tuned with the unconscious workings and the power of creativity automatically awakens.
4. Increases memory and learning capacity: The technique of yoganidra is helpful in increasing both learning and memory capacities. When yoganidra is used in education, both hemispheres of the student brain are involved in learning the subject whereas in classroom teaching the left hemisphere functions more.
5. Counteracts Stress: the practice of yoganidra helps in building up the coping ability to counteract stress.
6. Manages psychosomatic diseases: When tension conflicts and frustrations of the mind manifest in the from of physical symptoms those diseases are termed as, psychosomatic diseases. Yoganidra aims at releasing the suppressed and repressed conflicts from the unconscious thereby relaxing the mind.
7. Cures cancer: As a technique of meditation yoganidra can be adopted as a therapeutic model in the treatment of cancer.
8. Helps healing: In the practice of yoganidra the subtle bioplasmic energy prana is awakened and mobilized throughout the body. this conscious imagination activates the self healing capacity and thereby actual healing takes place in the patient. This kind of healing is termed as pranic healing. In yoganidra healing can also be initiated on the mental plane. When the body is visualized to be in perfect health over and over again the inherent potency of the mind actually starts healing.
9. Promotes willpower: Yoganidra helps in building up willpower and optimism in an individual because it is sowed in the subconscious and unconscious mind repeatedly.
The complete practice of yoga Nidra of the following stages.
1. Preparation: Lie down on your back on the floor and adopt the pose of Shavasana. In this position , the body should be straight from head to toe. Legs should be slightly apart and arms should be a little away from the body. Palms should be upwards. Feel comfortable in this position. Close your eyes and take a deep breath.
2. Intention : Take a resolve or Sankalp according to your own wish. It should be short clear and positive. For example, Sankalp may be I will enjoy complete health or I will ever be cheerful.
3. Breath Awareness: you simply become aware of the natural breath without doing any effort to change the flow of the breath. It gives a deeper relaxation and awakens higher energies that can be directed to all the parts of the body.
4. Opposites or Feeling and Sensation: At this stage, allow yourself to experience feeling and sensation Usually it is practised with pairs of opposite feeling like heat and cold, pain and pleasure love and hate.
5. Visualisation: This stage induces mental relaxation. It develop self awareness and relaxes the mind through removal of disturbing material, controls the mind and strengthens concentration ability. it is done by visualisation of variety of different images, objects or situation.
6. Sankalp: Once again Sankalp mentioned in the second point is repeated thrice with complete dedication.
7. Return or Finishing the Practice: This stage is important because if you move fast out of yoga nidra you can feel discontented and uncomfortable. At this stage awareness is externalised slowly so that you can be aware of the external location, sound , object and persons.
The main advantages of practice yoga nidra are stated below.
1. Reduce tension : most people remain under stress and tension which usually create a number of physical and psychological problem. Modern psychology as well as yogic philosophy believes that there are three kinds of tensions muscular emotional and mental tension which can be progressively reduced through regular practice of yoga nidra.
2. Relaxes the mind: The brain is the linking mediator between mind. body and emotion. during the process of yogankdra the awareness of the body stimulates the brain. when the awareness is rotated on the different parts of the body, It induces both physical and mental relaxation. when awareness is rotated repeatedly there is a good flow of pranic energy in the brain which ultimately relaxes the mind.
3. Awakens: Regular practice of yoganidra helps in making a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind. Slowly the individual becomes tuned with the unconscious workings and the power of creativity automatically awakens.
4. Increases memory and learning capacity: The technique of yoganidra is helpful in increasing both learning and memory capacities. When yoganidra is used in education, both hemispheres of the student brain are involved in learning the subject whereas in classroom teaching the left hemisphere functions more.
5. Counteracts Stress: the practice of yoganidra helps in building up the coping ability to counteract stress.
6. Manages psychosomatic diseases: When tension conflicts and frustrations of the mind manifest in the from of physical symptoms those diseases are termed as, psychosomatic diseases. Yoganidra aims at releasing the suppressed and repressed conflicts from the unconscious thereby relaxing the mind.
7. Cures cancer: As a technique of meditation yoganidra can be adopted as a therapeutic model in the treatment of cancer.
8. Helps healing: In the practice of yoganidra the subtle bioplasmic energy prana is awakened and mobilized throughout the body. this conscious imagination activates the self healing capacity and thereby actual healing takes place in the patient. This kind of healing is termed as pranic healing. In yoganidra healing can also be initiated on the mental plane. When the body is visualized to be in perfect health over and over again the inherent potency of the mind actually starts healing.
9. Promotes willpower: Yoganidra helps in building up willpower and optimism in an individual because it is sowed in the subconscious and unconscious mind repeatedly.
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