Yes, What i believe Listening Spiritual content, Early Sleep with positive thoughts, Removing work , communications early at around 20:00 Hr, Caution and awareness of Media and content seeing during night helps in sleep hygiene and freshness in the morning.

Yes, ancient practices like Yoga Nidra can positively reshape modern therapeutic paradigms by offering holistic, non-invasive approaches to mental health and expanding our understanding of consciousness.

Yes, ancient yogic practices like Yoga Nidra can reshape modern mental health therapy and consciousness studies. Yoga Nidra or yogic sleep, helps deeply relax the body and mind, reducing stress, anxiety, and insomnia. It guides people into a calm, conscious state between waking and sleeping, which improves emotional balance and self-awareness. This supports healing from trauma and mental fatigue. Modern science is now exploring these effects, showing how Yoga Nidra blends traditional wisdom with therapeutic value, offering a holistic, non-invasive method for mental and emotional well-being.

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I’m not a yogi, but I do think any practice that fosters self-reflection has value—Yoga Nidra included. That said, I believe that’s only half the equation. The deeper question isn’t just does it help, but why it helps.

The act of understanding—of becoming aware not just of the effect, but of the mechanism—is itself an expansion of consciousness. Meditation may calm us, yes, but if we don’t know how or why, we miss the recursive insight that gives that calm a more durable, integrated meaning.

Put differently: the process matters, but so does knowing you're in the process. That second layer of awareness isn’t a luxury—it’s part of the transformation. If ancient practices like Yoga Nidra are to reshape modern therapeutic paradigms, they’ll do so not just through subjective relief, but by opening a space where reflection deepens into structural understanding.

Ancient yogic practices like Yoga Nidra offer valuable insights and practical tools that can enrich, deepen, and diversify modern therapeutic approaches to mental health. They also provide a experiential framework for studying consciousness, potentially fostering a more integrated understanding of mind and awareness.

Modern neuroscience has begun to explore the brain states associated with Yoga Nidra, revealing alterations in neural activity that correlate with relaxation and altered consciousness. This can inform neuroplasticity research and expand notions of consciousness beyond purely cognitive frameworks.

Yoga Nidra, often called "yogic sleep," promotes deep relaxation, stress reduction, and emotional regulation. Incorporating it into therapy offers a non-pharmacological method to address anxiety, depression, and trauma, aligning with holistic health models.

Yoga Nidra's systematic journey through different states of consciousness—waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and transcendental states—provides a structured experiential model that complements scientific investigations into consciousness, potentially bridging subjective experience with objective measurement.

As evidence accumulates on the benefits of yogic practices, mental health disciplines are increasingly incorporating them into treatment protocols—such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Yoga Therapy—leading to more personalized, culturally sensitive approaches.

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Conclusion:

Integrating Yoga Nidra Priyanka Kumari with contemporary therapies offers a holistic approach to mental health. Its non-invasive, accessible, and cost-effective nature makes it a promising adjunct or alternative to pharmacological treatments. Furthermore, its capacity to induce altered states of consciousness aligns with ongoing research into consciousness studies, potentially offering insights into the nature of awareness and self-perception.

Ancient yogic practices like Yoga Nidra hold significant potential to reshape modern therapeutic paradigms by providing effective, holistic approaches to treating mental health issues and exploring consciousness. Continued interdisciplinary research combining neuroscience, psychology, and traditional yoga practices will further elucidate and harness these benefits.

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