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Guided Meditations by Aaira Kaur

by Aaira Kaur

What is YOGA NIDRA?Yoga Nidra is an ancient method that can open up the human mind's latent potential. It literally means yogic sleep, which is conscious sleep or dynamic sleep. Usually, when people sleep, they don't unburden themselves; they carry their frustrations, conflict, pain, and turmoil with them, so sleep never goes deep. It is a kind of deep sleep in which you don't lose consciousness; it is sleeping with a trace of awareness. In this state, the mind is tremendously relaxed and open to suggestions. The practice of Yoga Nidra not only relaxes and releases all muscular, emotional, and mental tensions but restructures and reforms our whole personality from within. It burns away habitual negative tendencies, and in a way, each Yoga Nidra session is like a new birth.The script is taken from the book of Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyanand Saraswati.This Yoga N