International Journal of Health Sciences and Research DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20210422 Vol.11; Issue: 4; April 2021 Website: www.ijhsr.org Review Article ISSN: 2249-9571

Impact of Nidra as Natural Tranquilizer in Emotional Pain

Bhavika Joshi

PhD Scholar, Mphil in Ashtanga Yoga, Net Qualified (Yoga), Lakulish Yoga University, Ahmedabad.

ABSTRACT

As a science of wellbeing, Yoga needs not more introduction. In this modern time Yoga practices utilize as preventive as well as curative aspects. In this article, affect of an ancient yogic Practice called Yoga Nidra can discharge emotional blockages and tie of pain. Emotional suffering is suffering or harmed that originates from non physical sources. In modern time individual may endure from this sort of suffering habitually due to parts of reasons. When an individual cannot express his/her sentiments and suppress that, it may create emotional blockages in mind. Yoga Nidra practice work as tool to help this sort of suffering and work as tranquilizer.

Key Words:- Emotional pain, Yoga Practice, Yoga Nidra.

INTRODUCTION mental and emotional relaxation. Yoga nidra The term Yoga Nidra is originated may be an effective pressure soothing from two words. Yoga meaning technique in which you'll learn to relax union or mindfulness, and Nidra which knowingly. Yoga Nidra can be utilized for implies rest. Swami more prominent mindfulness, productivity (2002) clarifies Yoga Nidra as a state of and accomplishment in life, it empowers an intellect between attentiveness and dream. adjust of psychic and imperative energies. According to ancient Indian sacred texts, When we practice Yoga Nidra we enter a sages are known to rest utilizing Yoga state of very deep relaxation in which we Nidra. Yoga Nidra is inferred from travel through the layers of our conscious, Pratyahar of and tantric practice subconscious and unconscious minds.1 of . Practice of Yoga Nidra, one In Pradipika, great shows up to be sleeping, but the awareness Swatmarama, classifies Yoga nidra as the is working at a more profound level of state of turiya, means the all expansive and mindfulness. For this reason, Yoga Nidra is encompassing ‘fourth dimension’. In this regularly inrodued to as “Psychic sleep” or Shakti neither contracts nor expands, but is “Deep relaxation with inner awareness.”1 in union with Shiv or supreme Yoga Nidra is well known practice counsiousness.2 for physical, mental and emotional health Emotional pain could be a state of through unwinding. Yoga Nidra, which is feeling broken that involved the encounter originated from the . Yoga Nidra of being injured, misfortune of self, could be a capable strategy in which learn to detachment and basic awareness of one’s relax deliberately. In Yoga Nidra, rest isn't more negative attributes.3 The universal respected as unwinding. This is as sensory affiliation for the think about of pain diversion. Genuine relaxation is really a far characterized pain as an unsavoury tactile beyond all this. Yoga Nidra is state of and passionate encounter related with real or energetic rest. 1 Yoga nidra may be a orderly potential tissue damage. Emotional pain or strategy of actuating complete physical, mental pain is an unpleasant feeling of

International Journal of Health Sciences and Research (www.ijhsr.org) 165 Vol.11; Issue: 4; April 2021 Bhavika Joshi. Impact of yoga nidra as natural tranquilizer in emotional pain. mental or non physical origin. Technical Sometimes it might be the result of regret, terms include algopsychalia and psychalgia grief or loss. This type of emotional pain is but it may too be called mental pain, very common in our life, so management of emotional pain, psychic pain, social pain, this type of pain is require for healthy otherworldly pain, or sufferings.3 living. Emotional pain can frequently feel as solid as physical pain. It can indeed cause Process of Yoga Nidra:- side effects of pain all through the body. It The 8 stages of the Yoga Nidra can too have an inconvenient affect on both practice include: short-term and long-term mental well-  Internalization / Relaxation – being.4 Typically exceptionally vital to treat Preliminary preparation of the body. the enthusiastic pain. There are numerous  Affirmation (Sankalpa) – A personal ways to oversee these sort of emotional pain goal previously decided upon is declared like talking to a few one (social support), silently. Physical movement, Relaxation and  Rotation of – The mindfulness Relaxation strategies, such as consciousness is taken on a tour of the reflection, tuning in to music, tuning in to whole body in a structured fashion. guided symbolism tracks, yoga, and Tai Chi  Respiration awareness – A period of are valuable ways to bring your feelings into awareness of the breath at special balance. Yoga is appropriate way to oversee positions in the body. the emotional balance.  Manifestations of Opposites – Pairs of Tranquilizer, drug that's utilized to feelings and emotions are experienced. diminish uneasiness, fear, pressure, tumult, 5  Creative Visualization – Various and related states of mental disturbance. In Archetypal images are visualized this article, I am discussing the impact of mentally. yoga nidra as a natural tranquilizer, through  Affirmation- Sankalpa is repeated and, the healing mechanism of yoga nidra during now in a highly suggestible state of emotional pain. consciousness, is programmed into the subconscious mind. Relationship between emotional pain and  Return to Full Awareness – A careful physical pain:- and gradual return to a normal state.1 Studies over the years have shown chronic pain may be caused by both Benefits:- physical injury or trauma and emotional issues. The team at south west spine and  Everybody can practice, Indeed apprentices who have no involvement pain centre discusses how physical pain and with . emotional pain are connected to each other. The physical discomfort is often a signal to  Physical stresses and pressures are the brain that emotional traumas needs to be removed. resolved to reduce tension and other issues  Mental stresses and undesirable affected the nervous system. impressions are removed. According to doctor Susan Babel  Emotions adjust is restored. certain body pain may indicate different  The resources of creative energy and emotional problems. Although not all pain visualization are polished and enhanced. is caused by emotional stresses or traumas,  The subliminal is focussed on and able it can definitely play a huge role in our to manifest any individual objective be it 1 overall health and wellbeing. 6 physical. In modern time person may suffer from this type of emotional pain mostly due to results of the actions of others.

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Effect of Yoga Nidra on emotional and released by the profound physical Mental Health:- unwinding achieved within the state of It can help within the Yoga Nidra. 2. Emotional Pressure- It accomplishment of a state of so called self- controls the emotional state of the intellect, realization (total self-awareness) Yoga anesthetize the entire emotional structure of Nidra makes a difference in re-establishing the intellect. 3. Mental tension:- Everyone mental, emotional and physical wellbeing included in a few kind of mental activity in by way of unwinding, and makes the day to day life. The intellect is whirlpool of intellect more conducive to - fantasies, disarrays and oscillations. The withdrawing faculties from their objects, tensions related to family, working Dharana - concentration, and reflection. The environment, and interpersonal relationships practice helps harmonize the two halves of are collected within the consciousness state the globe of the brain and the two angles of of the mental body. This may bring the independent apprehensive system psychological and behavioural changes in (sympathetic and parasympathetic).7 the body responsible for abnormal behaviour of an individual. Yoga Nidra is Typical Effects the science of relaxation which enables to The most easily observable effect of enter into the realms of the subconscious the Yoga Nidra practice is the extremely mind, thereby releasing and relaxing mental deep relaxation of the nervous system and tensions and establishing harmony in all healing of the body by allowing it the rest facts of life.7 and recharge it usually lacks in our all too The Yogic practice leads to busy lifestyles. Yoga Nidra has been heightened cortical arousability and reduced clinically shown to be one of the most limbic arousability at the same time, which powerful methods available to achieve this heightened perceptual awareness and state of deep relaxation and sedation without simultaneously reduced emotional reaction. the use of chemical agents. In Yoga Nidra Thus the regulatory mechanism in the exactly opposite process is used to make the hypothalamus is set at normal state which brain centres active by focussing awareness results in decreases sympathetic system and on the parts of the body in a definite stimulates parasympathetic system. There is sequence. Thus, the person tries to stimulate a powerful technique to cope with the various parts of the brain by focusing the problem of stress without medication in awareness on the corresponding parts of the which a person can use their mind to change body. By awareness is implied 'attitude of physiology for the better and improve their witnessing' towards physical or mental health by using the natural restorative actions of the body. 7 process called the Relaxation Response. Yoga Nidra is one of the best Yogic Healing mechanism of yoga nidra:- interventional mechanisms to cope with Yogic logic as well as advanced problem of stress which stimulates the psychology, enumerates three fundamental parasympathetic system and decreases the sorts of pressure which are responsible for sympathetic system which bring the body all the desolations of cutting edge life. into homeostatic state.8 These three sorts of pressure are classified as Physical, Mental and emotional. Through REVIEW OF LITERATURE the consistent practice of Yoga Nidra, these Rani (2011) investigated the impact threefold tensions can be dynamically of Yoga Nidra on psychological well being discharged. 1. Physical Tension- Usually in patients with menstrual. The authors named as solid tensions related to the body studied the association of menstrual itself, the apprehensive framework and symptoms with anxiety and depression in endocrinal lopsidedness. These are easily female students. The practice of Yoga Nidra

International Journal of Health Sciences and Research (www.ijhsr.org) 167 Vol.11; Issue: 4; April 2021 Bhavika Joshi. Impact of yoga nidra as natural tranquilizer in emotional pain. has been reported to relieve pain associated (ART) on steadiness with dysmenorrhoea and excessive level of and performance of archers was premenstrual tension. The participants in the investigated. ART group showed maximum Yoga Nidra program had found to be improvement on steadiness task. No decreased level of anxiety, depression and statistically significant results were obtained increased positive wellbeing, general health for performance of archers. The findings are and vitality compared with the control discussed in light of the mechanisms and group.9 principles underlying these treatments along Meenakashi Pathak (2014) studied with their application for sports persons. 12 ,Old age is a stage of life where people may K Kumar (2010) finds out the effect confront a variety of difficulties, including of Yoga nidra on regression and guilt on loss of confidence, lowered self-esteem, college going students. The result shows a depression, unmet dependency needs, significant change as practice of Yoga nidra loneliness, boredom and fear of future. The positively decreases the regression and guilt elderly people habitually transfer their levels of both the male and female psychological difficulties into physical subjects.13 symptoms and complaints associated with Various studies have been done in their advancing age. This may lead to rapid different part of world for observing the physical and mental deterioration in them. effect of yoga nidra. I have reviewed many This can be easily and effortlessly studies on yoga nidra, there are many experienced through amazing energy of studies on impact of yoga nidra on stress Yoga Nidra. Yoga Nidra is a state of mind and its related disease. I have found fewer between wakefulness and dream, in which studies, particular on impact of yoga nidra person sleeps with a trace of awareness. The for reducing emotional pain and emotional eight steps of Yoga Nidra (i.e. preparation, transformation. relaxation, resolve, rotation of consciousness, breathing, image DISSCUSSION visualization, resolve, finish) may be Yoga-Nidra is the state of conscious applied as an adjuvant to relieve sleeping. Different steps involved in yoga- accumulated tensions, stress resistance and nidra have their own effect on mental as psychosomatic diseases, and increases the well as physical health of the practitioners. overall efficiency of geriatric population.10 The practice of yoga-nidra has shown S C Davis (2018) investigated the changes in the functioning of hypothalamus affect of yoga nidra for reducing emotional that leads to reduced sympathetic activation pain. Emotional pain can be described as and increased parasympathetic activities heartache that results from a painful which are responsible for the body’s experience, such as being hurt by loved one, relaxation. The authors also reported as a result of their words or actions. It can significant reduction in emotional occur from depression, anxiety, processing and executive control persistent disappointment, fear or guilt, and tends to with hypothalamus activity. Reduction in worsen when you replay and relive painful, parasympathetic system reduces the release traumatic events that occurred in the past. of stress hormone, making an individual feel Emotional pain can become debilitating more composed and stable. These soothing when it affects your mood, relationships, effects as the result of practice of yoga-nidra personal and professional life, and it help in controlling and managing our occupies your mind constantly.11 emotions and thereby reducing emotional Deskur, M Poonawala, N Bhatewara pain and work as natural tranquilizer. (2006) found the significance changes in the archers due to the practice of yoga nidra. The effect of Yoga Nidra and Applied

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