Want to control your thoughts? Brain scans reveal Yoga Nidra may help you master your mind and emotions Brain scans have revealed possible neural activity that could help one feel relaxed while performing yoga nidra or ‘yogic sleep’ — a meditation technique that induces a sleep-like state while maintaining heightened awareness participants’ default mode network, which is the brain’s “background mode,” known to be at play when one is being introspective, or just letting their mind wander. default mode network is generally associated with thinking about the past or the future, autobiographical processes, thinking about others, scene construction, and even goal-directed cognition Meditation reduces the activity within the default mode network and allows one to weaken the strength of these samskaras or impressions, thereby resulting in the ability to have a better say over our thoughts, habits and actions yogic texts, yoga nidra helps bring the ‘samskaras’ buried in deep subconscious minds to the surface and eventually helps release them, thereby promoting health
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