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Yoga nidra can help reduce stress and improve your sleep
from: Peter BarnesJust relax!' So easy to say, so hard to do...without a little
help. And that's exactly what Yoga Nidra can do. It can help you
to relax, help you to sleep and help you to reduce stress. It
can help you be calm in a frantic world. It can help you find
more energy for all the things you need to do...and want to do.
So what is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra is a special kind of yoga that focuses solely on
relaxation - specifically 'guided relaxation'. If you have
attended yoga classes, you may have experienced something a
little like it if your teacher has asked you to lie down and to
listen to their voice while they talk you through visualisations
for example. Although this doesn't take you as 'deep' as yoga
nidra, for many, it is still the highlight of their yoga session
- guided relaxation is a wonderful, calming experience. Whether
you are highly stressed or not, yoga nidra can make a huge
difference to your life, helping you make the most of every day.
However, there are some people for whom yoga nidra can be
particularly powerful: that is people who suffer from high
stress or who have problems sleeping.
Sleep and stress are inextricably linked. The more we are
stressed, the harder it is to sleep. The less well we sleep, the
harder we find it to manage stress. It's a vicious cycle that
many find hard to break.
If you take less than five minutes to go to sleep at night, then
you are almost certainly not getting enough sleep. A 'normal'
sleep pattern would see you taking between ten and fifteen
minutes and being over tired as a result of poor sleep has been
associated with anything from increased road accidents to the
Challenger space shuttle disaster. All sorts of factors can lead
to poor sleep from what you eat in the last hour or two before
bed to the noise and temperature levels around you. Even if you
don't actually wake up, research has shown that noise,
particularly just after you've fallen asleep and in the hour or
two before you wake can affect you. And research has also found
that the temperature range within which we can sleep comfortably
gets narrower as we get older. When we're younger it can be
anywhere between 18 and 30 degrees, but as we age it can reduce
to as little as 23-25 degrees.
And the symptoms of not getting enough sleep are all too
familiar to many people - you feel low on energy, less alert,
sometimes moody and your physical and mental abilities are
reduced. Indeed, some studies have made direct comparisons
between the loss of ability caused by sleep deprivation, and the
loss caused by drinking alcohol.
But Yoga Nidra can help. Yoga Nidra is used by many of the
founder of Yoga for the Mind's students as a means to not only
relax, but quite literally to 'send them to sleep'.
One of them said recently; "You have changed my life. For the
first time since my second child was born I have found a way to
sleep when I want to. And having slept, I am dealing so much
better with the childrens' asthma, schools ...everything! Thank
you so much. You're a life saver!"
Making the Yoga for the Mind yoga nidra available on cd or as an
mp3 download (see www.yoga-nidra.net) has made it possible for
more students to enjoy the benefits at home as well as when they
are in class. The fact that the Yoga for the Mind cds are
available as a personalized gift with your name in the audio, on
the disc and cover, has made it even more precious still. It's a
personalized gift just for you.
Thank you for reading!
About the author:
yoga nidra | www.yoga-nidra.net | yoga teacher, Sheena O'Beirne
and associate of the London College of Music, Peter Barnes
combine to create personalized yoga nidra cds for maximum
relaxation
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