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Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, February 21, 2023 2:05 PM Federal environmental regulators on Tuesday took charge of the cleanup from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical burn and ordered Norfolk Southern to foot the... |
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WebMD Health Tuesday, February 21, 2023 2:35 PM New research suggests that depression risk among LGBTQ+ students is considerably lower in those schools where such Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) are present and relatively active. |
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Mark's Daily Apple Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:50 PM What mental image does the word "yoga" conjure for you? Probably a spandex-clad individual in downward dog or balancing on one leg in tree pose. Or maybe they're in a complicated full-body knot that requires five times more flexibility than you've ever had? Does it look like hard work? That's certainly one version of yoga, the kind that dominates the modern notion of yoga in the West, but it's not at all what we're talking about today. What if I told you that there is another kind of yoga, one in which you don't move at all? You don't even sit or stand; you lie down the whole time. That's yoga nidra. "Yoga nidra" literally means "yogic sleep," sometimes translated as "conscious sleep." The goal of yoga nidra is to achieve an altered state of awareness where you are neither awake nor asleep but in a liminal space in between—or maybe surpassing both. (Technically, the term refers to the state of consciousness beyond wakefulness or sleeping. That is, "yoga nidra" is the destination, not the journey it takes to get there. But in common parlance, people use it to mean the entire practice.) Yoga nidra offers the opportunity to step outside your body, thoughts, and emotions. It is a state of deep relaxation and, say proponents, of deep healing where your subconscious becomes more open to learning and establishing new thought and behavior patterns, stress dissipates, and you move towards physical health and homeostasis. "Equivalent to fours hours of deep sleep!" is a common selling point. The latter may or may not be true, but it's clear that yoga nidra has a lot to offer by way of promoting relaxation, better sleep, and even recovery from major stress and trauma. There isn't a person operating in the modern world who couldn't benefit from slowing down and intentionally tapping into relaxing, restorative practices. Is yoga nidra right for you? A Brief History of Yoga Nidra Modern yoga nidra practices have roots tracing back into many ancient yoga and meditation traditions. In ancient texts, yoga nidra or yoganidra sometimes referred to that non-sleep, non-waking level of consciousness or to the goddess Yoga Nidra Shakti. Yoga nidra was often described as a higher state of being, one in which normal mental and bodily activities ceased, and the yogi achieved a state of bliss. The type of yoga nidra practice you're likely to encounter today was probably inspired by 19th and 20th century "relaxationists" and hypnotists who were interested in harnessing the healing power of rest, according to scholars, but it really got its kickstart thanks to the teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, Satyananda devised a method of using breathing techniques and body scans to achieve progressive relaxation and tap into yoga nidra. If you take a yoga nidra class today, there's a good chance you'll be following his method, or something quite like it. Yoga nidra has since enjoyed a surge in popularity, as well as academic … Continue reading "What Is Yoga Nidra" The post What Is Yoga Nidra appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple. |
