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tia-222 · 9 months

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𓆩♡𓆪 Yoga Nidra To Enter The Void State Within Minutes 𓆩♡𓆪

What is Yoga Nidra ?

Yoga Nidra is a type of a systematic guided meditation that relaxes your entire body deeply and drops your Brainwaves into Alpha, theta and lastly delta ( which is deepest the Brainwave ). When practicing Yoga Nidra, your mind and body will enter a calm state, perfect for accessing deeper consciousness, which will ultimately make entering the void state instant for you. Yoga Nidra is used to filter out thought's from the conscious mind leaving our subconscious open for suggestion. During yogic sleep, your enter mind will reach a point , where there is no thought's and you will enter a sleep - like state.

"Yoga Nidra means Yogic Sleep. It is a state of conscious Deep Sleep. In Meditation, you remain in the Waking state of consciousness, and gently focus the mind, while allowing thought patterns, emotions, sensations, and images to arise and go on. However, in Yoga Nidra, you leave the Waking state, go past the Dreaming state, and go to Deep Sleep, yet remain awake. "

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Yoga Nidra mind chart :

Conscious (beta, alpha ), ➜ Half conscious sleep stage ( Theta state, hypnagogic state), ➜ Conscious deep Sleep ( Delta state, Subconscious , dreaming).

( This diagram shows how Yoga Nidra takes us into deep states of mind, Made by me hehe.)

Stage 1 : Conscious state →

In the early stages of meditation, we remain in the conscious state allowing our body and mind to go deeper in our Meditation practice and expand our consciousness. Beginning of our Yoga Nidra our mind goes from beta state to Alpha state.

Stage 2 : Half conscious sleep stage →

In this stage , our mind dips from Alpha to Theta state which is also know as the hypnogogic state. Theta state is a transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep. This what we experience before falling asleep. But in Yoga Nidra , we totally aware of it happening, while remaining awake. In theta state , you might see hypnagogic imagery like flashing images and dream scenes. You might get hypnic jerks , where your body starts to jerk and move by itself. It means you are going into deep consciousness. Try to remine still , when this happens. It only lasts a few seconds.

Stage 3 : Conscious Sleep stage →

This is stage is where Yoga Nidra brings you to the deepest level of minds and expands your consciousness in to the unconscious state of mind with you being aware. This state of mind is the doorway to Astral plane and can help you enter the void within minutes.

Fun fact : Yoga Nidra Guided Meditation usually are 20 minutes long - 1 hour ♡.

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How do we practice Yoga Nidra :

In yoga we are taught to put our Focus/attention on the 61 points on our body. Causing each part of the 61 point to fall asleep energetically. The 61-Points exercise is an excellent practice for entering Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep), which is a state where you are in deep sleep, yet are awake.

Instead of doing Yoga Nidra by yourself, you can use guided meditations that many anons have used on Tumblr to enter the void state. I'll link them for you <3.

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How to Enter the Void State using Yoga Nidra :

♡ You can do Yoga Nidra , before bed preferably or during the day if you tend to fall asleep faster.

♡ Take some deep breaths in and out. And sleep in a position that you feel is comfortable.

♡ Use a Guided Meditation that I linked below there have success stories from them. So Guaranteed , it will help you.

♡ After listening and travelling through the 61 Points , you'll be in the Conscious sleep stage.

♡ Start focusing on your Affirmations, You can say " I am void", " I am" , " I am in the void ". And try to ignore all the symptoms and persist through them , Symptoms are just indicators that you are entering the void state.

♡ And within minutes you will be there in the void state and ready to manifest your dream life.

My Pov, why Yoga Nidra works :

This is literally the only method that I found extremely helpful, if you entering the void awake. In my personal opinion, Yoga Nidra takes you into a deep level of Meditation that relaxes and clams your mind and body, which makes entering the void so much easier. And it's so easy and compatible for everyone <3.

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These are the Yoga Nidra Meditations that Anons have used to enter the void state :

♡ Lizzy hill - Yoga Nidra , 20 minutes l Guided Meditation

♡ Guided Astral projection/ Yoga Nidra ( Mind awake / body asleep )

♡ Yoga Nidra sleep Meditation ( Guided sleep Hypnosis )

♡ Yoga Nidra Guided Meditation - Drift off to sleep

Void Success From Anons Who Used Yoga Nidra to enter the void state :

Success Story 1 , Success Story 2 , Success 3 , Success 4, Success Story 5 , Success Story 6, Success Story 7.

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#void state #law of assumption #void state tips #the void state #manifestion #void thoughts #neville goddard #void state success story #Yoga Nidra #void #Void state method #Affirmations #void success stories #void success #affirming

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voidarchivefiles · 5 months

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Yoga Nidra for void

In my previous post, I covered information gathered from research on yoga nidra and its links to turiya (the void). I want to highlight some parts of that research.

By means of Yoga Nidra, skilled practitioners seek to access Turiya. Yoga Nidra is a powerful practice that guides us beyond mind and in fact turns mind upon itself where its obscuring nature is dissolved to reveal the inner Light that is perennially Bright, with eyes closed or open. When we experience the state of yoga nidra, we have entered the portal to turiya. Entering the state of turiya requires inner silence. It can be achieved when the mind is free of mental blocks and bondages with time and space. The goal of yoga and meditation is to achieve turiya, where oneness is felt with the universe.

So basically yoga nidra (if done correctly), can bring you to a state right before the void which explains why there are so many success stories that used yoga nidra. I did a quick analysis on these and these are the ones that were used (there were also some other yoga nidra successes where they didn't reference any particular meditation):

Jason Stephenson's 61 points yoga nidra: 10 successes

Lizzy Hill's yoga nidra: 6 successes

RosalieYoga's yoga nidra for astral projection: 2 successes

Ally Boothroyd's yoga nidra for sleep: 1 success

Don't let the length of the audio put you off, the meditation for most of these is about 15 minutes with the rest being gentle soft music to extend the yoga nidra state (although the Ally one I think has talking for the entire 2 hours so I don't really recommend using that one but it might be good to keep you from falling asleep)

#my posts #yoga nidra #recovering from illness so i'm more active here for now :')

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charmedreincarnation · 7 months

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Im also with this person did the guided meditation yesterday but I was slipping in and out of the void while also falling asleep but I affirmed after some few minuets I was in and out of the void also but I didn’t persist but I was extremely fucking happy, then I tried today but I’m sibling pissed me the fuck off (sorry T_T) and I had to stop but for me I have to do it in a extremely quiet environment since I have no headphones and just put the volume kind of loud by my head/ears and listen, and honestly the stuff moon did I did it last year and it helped but I was persistent apparently but I’m not giving up no matter how uncomfortable I feel.

Yoga nidra for the W then. Super happy for you and I hope to will get your success story soon 💕💕

#law of assumption #yoga nidra #void state #manifesation #manifesting

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lolilewenk · 2 months

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I'll try yoga nidra tonight

This afternoon I tried yoga nidra to get into the void. A truly wonderful method, I relaxed very well, but did not enter the void. The video lasted 20 minutes and that was not enough for me. I was still somewhat tense because I was afraid that my mother would come in. I'll try this tonight. I'll take a couple of analgin tablets and enter the void, because it's simple and fast

#void state #law of assumption #manifestation #yoga nidra

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ohmconsciousness · 8 months

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amazing healing sound bath for yoga, meditation or chill

#healing sounds #singing bowls #yoga nidra #yoga music #sound bath #Youtube

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rhube · 6 months

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Meditation and ME/CFS

I've written a lot about my experiences with meditation on Mastodon, but not so much here, where the long-form format would actually help me say more. So, here goes.

There's now a wealth of evidence that the gut and the vegas nerve have a lot to answer for with ME/CFS symptoms, and that improving them can significantly reduce symptoms.

If I'm feeling better at some point I will try to hunt down sources, but I'm still pretty ill and trying to be good, so for now what you get is the results of someone with a philosophy PhD reading science papers and watching videos and seminars from scientists. I have research skills and am trained in evaluating testimony, but I'm not a scientist. I am taking their word for it, but I have taken a wide range of educated people's words for it.

The Remission Biome project people share a lot of scholarly information in an accessible way on their feeds, and are a good place to start to find out more about what's going on, as they are researchers who have both ME/CFS and Long COVID. But the vast majority of what they say (and all the bits I'm going to talk about today) have been supported by the ME/CFS specialist Occupational Health Therapist I saw this year and many, many papers and videos I have consumed from other researchers.

Anyway, on to the stuff.

A problem making energy

People with ME/CFS have broken mitochondria. This has been suspected for a while, but a bombshell paper from a guy called Prusty basically proved it at the international ME/CFS conference in the UK in April this year (2023). This gives us a starting place for an actual goddamn biomarker and test, rather than the diagnosis of exclusion that has been used by many GPs to dismiss the condition for years. But what does it have to do with the gut and the vegas nerve?

Well, ME/CFS is a condition that affects the body's regulatory systems, so it isn't just any one thing that's fucked up, but each thing that is fucked up fucks all the other things up and makes them worse - JOY! That said, the mitochondria are the 'powerhouse of the cell' so knowing that a condition whose key marker is crushing fatigue and post-exertional malaise (basically, worsening of all systems as a delayed reaction after you do something that draws on too much energy) involves broken mitochondria is obviously a big piece of the puzzle.

According to Prusty - and others! - the mitochondria are not producing energy in the right way in response to exertion. But it's not just that! You know the muscle pain that comes from anaerobic exercise? That's lactic acid, caused by lactates, damaging your cells with oxidative action. These oxidatives further damage your mitochondria, so that when you need to draw on your energy again later, the problem is worse - post-exertional malaise!

Where are the lactates and oxidatives coming from? It's partly because your mitochondria aren't creating energy the way they should, so you start generating energy anaerobically way earlier than you should. Things like walking at a normal pace, having a conversation that lasts more than 20 minutes, or reading a book, can trigger your cells to behave like you're running a marathon and doing anaerobic exercise, causing the lactate acid.

But it's not just that.

The gut and the vegas nerve

You see, a lot of the regulation of how and when you produce energy is governed by the gut and the vegas nerve, which connects the gut to the brain. In fact, the vegas nerve is two nerves, one for the left and one for the right side of the body. They go down from the brain to connect to fucking EVERYTHING. Down your arms to your fingers. Down your torso to all your organs. Down your legs to your toes. And they both do the same thing, so people just talk about the vegas nerve as one thing (as I will mostly from now on).

The vegas nerve controls your parasympathetic and sympathetic nervus systems - basically whether you are ramping up to do some shit or winding down to relax and sleep. Part of the way it does that is by controlling what happens in your gut, which is sometimes referred to as your 'second brain' because it controls so fucking much of what goes on in the rest of your body.

When the vegas nerve gets disrupted, it sends disruptive signals to your gut, and the gut produces unhelpful chemicals. In particular: cytokenes.

Cytokenes are a trigger for cells to produce lactates which cause oxidative action. The oxidatives fuck up the mitochondria and cause inflammation. Inflammation disrupts the nevus system (including the vegas nerve), which can make you anxious and more likely to enter fight-or-flight over things that really shouldn't bother you. This BOTH disrupts the vegus nerve further AND drives the body to produce more energy, which makes you feel less tired than you actually are. This means that you push yourself harder and your poor, broken mitochondria are called on to produce more energy anaerobically, which makes more lactates, more oxidation, more inflammation, etc etc.

How do we fix this? Well, there's no cure, but you can do things to reduce the bad shit that's happening at different stages of the cycle.

Meditation

One of those things is meditation. There is a really large body of evidence that meditation does help regulate the vegas nerve, in ways that benefit basically everyone, although it's not entirely clear how. I'm the kind of person who gets deeply sceptical when someone says I can improve my debilitating illness by thinking nice thoughts (11 years of medical gaslighting will do that to you even if you are not a philosopher who has been asking annoying 'why' questions since you were 4), so I've looked into this to the extent I can as a non-scientist.

People talk a lot about 'improving vagal tone' without fucking unpacking that, and that annoys me. Wtf is 'tone'? It's not really defined, and I think there's an extent to which we don't really know the exact mechanism. But. I think it's meant to be analogous to the way that a toned muscle is better at doing what it's meant to do. I translate 'vagal tone' into 'vagal regulation'. Is it behaving in a regular manner, sending the right kind of signals in proportion to what the body needs? If it's sending signals to wake you up at all times of the night, then crash in the afternoon, if it's telling the gut to make cytokenes when you do not need bloody cytokenes, then it's not well-regulated and the 'tone' is bad.

There's no clear evidence for one kind of meditation over another at improving vagal 'tone' but what they all tend to have in common is breathing exercises and deep relaxation.

Meditation for anxious and traumatised people

Personally, I do not find the kind of 'mindfulness' meditation they push in the UK (often as a part of CBT, although the two do not need to go hand in hand) particularly helpful.

This is because I have high levels of depression and anxiety, tinnitus, and probably cptsd, and mindfulness meditation tends to aim at emptying the mind, accepting whatever thoughts come without judgement, and exercises that involve listening to different sounds (NOT GOOD IF YOU HAVE TINNITUS!). If you give me too much blank space without distractions I get intrusive thoughts that I do not fucking want to be accepting of, and as someone with a history of disassociation (common with cptsd) I am REALLY uncomfortable trying to separate my thoughts from all emotion - doing that is labelled in my brain 'here be dragons'.

But! There are other kinds of meditation! The people at Remission Biome recommended yoga nidra (yogic sleep) and for me it is SO MUCH BETTER.

It also makes a lot of sense in terms of regulating your vagus nerve.

Yoga nidra

It works like this:

You start with a few long slow breaths (like most meditation). This helps regulate the vagus nerve because the speed of your heart and lung movements are related - think about it, you breathe in oxygen to oxygenate blood that's then pumped around the body to your cells by your heart; it makes sense that they would be in step. Deep slow breaths both slow down your heart and increase oxygen levels in the blood which helps buffer against the anaerobic energy production that causes lactates. The central tracts of the vegas nerves run really closely to the nasal cavity and throat, so it's likely that deep slow breaths are active directly on the vegas nerve there (the is the same reason drinking cold water upside down can cure hiccups, but directly applying soolness to the vagus nerve through the throat and resetting it).

The you set something called a senkalpa, or intention, for the practice. This one doesn't do much for me as it's meant to be present tense as though it's already true, and the tendency for me to get taciturn and be like 'No it bloody isn't!' is very high. It's meant to be things like 'I am well-rested,' 'I am at peace,' 'I am happy and healthy,' which tend to annoy me, but I quite like 'I am enough', and either way, it's over quickly, and if that's all the affirmation bullshit I have to endure in a meditation, I am grateful. Mindfulness meditations tend to have waaay more stuff that annoys me than yoga nidra.

After the senkalpa you start thinking about parts of your body in turn. Depending on the length of the meditation, you'll think about more or less of your body parts, but essentially, you are drawing attention to all the various end-point of the vegas nerves in turn (usually the right first, and then the left). It's very common to start with the right thumb, then each of your fingers, your palm, the back of your hand, progressive parts if your arm, thr ight side of your chest, your waist, your hip, your thigh, your knee, your calf, your ankle, your heel, the sole of your right foot, your right big toe, each of your other toes in turn, then back up your leg to your hip, and then either down your left leg or starting at your left thumb to do the left side. Longer meditations might start with your head and go on to work though your back and front as well as the left and right. I think traditionally you're working through chakras (I am not an expert!) but you can see how this is basically stimulating the vegas nerve in an orderly fashion, and it makes sense that this would help regulate it in some fashion.

It also - and this is a big one if you have anxiety and intrusive thoughts - gives you something simple and straightforward to think about, guided by somebody else. This makes it MUCH EASIER for me to avoid getting het up in my own bullshit than any kind of meditation that wants me to empty my mind or just listen to stuff.

If I'm really anxious, it can take quite a long way into the meditation for me to get sufficiently distracted to relax, but I'd say 80-90% of the time I can do it in a half hour meditation.

Which is like:

Because I am SO BAD at that.

It REALLY DOES relax me. I know, because my heart rate monitor tells me I usually drop 10-30 heart beats per minute by meditating.

And that's really important for two reasons.

1. One of the best ways to avoid PEM is to note your resting heart rate when you wake up (any watch with a heart rate monitor and app will calculate this for you) and then try to keep your heart rate no more that 15bpm higher than that. No, that isn't a lot. Yes, you probably are triggering PEM if you stay with a heart rate above that for long. That's how going for a short walk or having a conversation can fuck you up.

2. Your body clears out all the crud it collects during the day (stuff like lactates!) when you're in deep rest. What you're trying to do with yoga nidra is enter deep rest without falling asleep. This means that if you enter PEM and your cells are full of nasty lactates, you can mitigate the damage by cleaning those out without napping and fucking up your sleep pattern (you rarely enter deep rest when you nap anyway).

You can probably enter waking deep rest with other types of meditation, but this one is SPECIFICALLY aimed at doing that, so you do it lying down, which is also a lot better for people with ME/CFS, as long as you get up and move around after (I find this is much easier after yoga nidra than when I just go lie in bed and scroll Tumblr, for instance).

What's more, when I do it at night, if has a 95% success rate at getting me back to sleep. Including if I wake up in the middle of the night. As a lifelong insomniac, I say again:

So, like, I was not at all convinced by the mindfulness meditation the chronic fatigue clinic prescribed when I first heard it recommended. But I kept hearing it recommended again and again, and when Remission Biome recommended doing yoga nidra at least an hour every day I was both incredulous (that sounded like a lot) and inclined to find out more.

They recommended the Insight Timer app, which is free and I have found really great. It has a lot of free yoga nidra tracks, as well as mindfulness meditations, soothing short stories, gong baths, and even an hour long track of a cat purring, so even if yoga nidra isn't for you, it's easy to find something that gives you that period of genuine rest from both physical and cognitive exertion that is essential to actually pace.

Pacing

Like many in the ME/CFS community, I am frustrated that pacing is the only fucking thing most doctors will prescribe. I do think the way it's used by a lot of doctors is a cop out to explain why patients never get better - the kind of rigid schedules and activity diaries they prescribe as having to be followed exactly seem like the kind of thing most actual humans will be doomed to fail at.

BUT, if you think in terms of the science of 'you're gonna got into the PEM trigger zone for any activity, but if you can immediately downtools and enter deep rest, you may be able to not only lower your heart rate, but also clear out some of the damaging chemicals you created' ... I dunno, man, that makes sense to me.

Insight Timer tells me I have now meditated at least once a day for 93 consecutive days, and 115 days total. I am still pretty damn sick - I got myself in a bad way over the last three years, and I've been told I need at least 4-6 months solid rest before I can even think about increasing activity - it's gonna take A While to clean out the garbage in my body, but when I am able to meditate I can see on my heart rate monitor an immediate effect. My resting heart rate is very slowly going down, on average. And I can see that when I don't meditate enough in the day, my sleep gets worse again and I feel worse, and my resting heart rate goes up again:

I know exactly what caused those bumps.

Meditation is also prescribed for IBS, which I've also been treating and is very common with ME/CFS (because our digestive system and vegas nerve are fucked up!). I was gonna talk more about that too, because meditation is by no means the only gut-related treatment I have been doing, but this post is already too long. But I've had bad IBS this year, and lately I've been doing some proper fucking poos - the meditation is a part of that.

So, I dunno if this is helpful, or if it will reach anyone from my largely fandom blog, but this feels like important information that doctors do not explain properly. Plus, I would love to share with other people who have mental health issues that yoga nidra *may* be more helpful and less distressing to them than the mindfulness meditation it is easier to come across in the English-speaking world.

If you do get the Insight Timer app, my favourite tracks are by:

Zoe Kanat

The StillPoint

Natalie Moon Yoga Nidra (the track with the picture of a kitten)

Melissa Burton

There are a lot of tracks that blend meditation styles and some mix yoga nidra with affirmations, acceptance, or gratitude, which for me is a big Do Not Want, but these have been reasonably safe for me.

Again, I am not a doctor or a scientist, but I am OK at reading scientific papers and researching stuff, and I think this stuff is helping me.

#meditation #mecfs #yoga nidra #the vagus nerve #this isn't even all i have learned on this topic but this is now a very long post #anxiety #depression #cptsd #ptsd #mental health #mental illness #mitochondria

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raffaellopalandri · 1 year

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Book of the Day - The Sleep Prescription

Book of the Day – The Sleep Prescription

Today’s Book of the Day is The Sleep Prescription, written by Aric Prather and published in 2022 by Penguin Life. Aric A. Prather is a psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where he co-directs the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center. He has helped hundreds of patients improve their sleep using cognitive behavioral therapy for…

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antharmukhi · 2 years

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𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘢; 𝘠𝘰𝘨𝘢 𝘯𝘪𝘥𝘳𝘢.

One of my constant endeavours in my Art practice revolves around interpreting 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘥𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢.

Vishnu's Cosmic Dream, 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘢, corresponds to the most widely accepted scientific theory of Creation, the Big Bang and the Big Contraction...creation and destruction. The idea is that Maha-Vishnu who experiences a creative sleep for the duration of one breath manifests and destroys tiny universes which emanate from the pores of his skin. His one breath is equal to total universal time.

Even when there was Nothing, there was Vishnu, present as a nameless, formless, dormant energy. In this un-manifested (𝘯𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘢) state, even Vishnu was not aware of his own being. He just was. But just because he was not perceived, does not mean he did not exist.

In the Nothingness, when the first ripple of awareness stirred, spontaneously and of its own will, the formless energy became Vishnu, the Supreme Being, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘮𝘢.

As 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘮𝘢, Vishnu lies in a dream-like state on the serpent 𝘈𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘢 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢 who is Time, without beginning or end. Ananta floats for all eternity on the waters of the 𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘢 (the ocean of Cosmic Consciousness).

The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of God, he is put into a long and difficult journey through the material universe, this material world or 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘢 is created by the dreaming of Mahā-Viṣṇu. The purpose of 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘢 is to keep any spiritual force or soul in illusion and away from God so that the soul prefers 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘢 instead of its actual reality.

After being in contact with the material modes of nature, the living entity develops the subtle and gross bodies. When the living entity is fortunate enough to associate with Śrī Nārada Mahāmuni or his servants, he is liberated from this dreamland of material creation and the bodily conception of life.

#sanatana dharma #hindu mythology #Ksheer sagar #Maya #maha vishnu #anathshayana #yoga nidra #charcoal art #art #charcoal sketch #cosmic dream #multiverse #parallel universe #hindutva

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voidarchivefiles · 9 months

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Ancient void practices

I went through some success stories and tagged the ones that entered the void through yoga nidra and lucid dreaming cos these two ancient practices have always fascinated me since they're deeply centred around our state of consciousness and are also known portals to out of body experiences/shifting/the void. Read them if you need some motivation! Also see my recent post on lucid dreaming if you're interested in entering the void through that.

Anyway, if you have doubts about the void, I think a great anchor is leaning into practices that have roots dating back to ancient times and researching them and of course, reading more widely than just Tumblr. When you do this, you'll know that this state isn't something that was invented by Tumblr and has existed since.. forever because well, it's pure consciousness lol. And the void/turiya/samadhi has been known way before Neville's time. From my research, it's the main goal of yoga practitioners as well but they pursue it for the purpose of enlightenment and peace as opposed to manifesting desires.

The rest of this post is a dump of interesting excerpts from my research on yoga, samadhi and turiya and its links to manifesting, reality shifting and the void state. You can also do your own research although there's no need to overdo it :)

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This extract seems to be talking about reality shifting/manifesting/instant creation. I am curious on where we could learn more about yogis doing this!

Trapped in Your Own World Many yogis have created their own worlds and been trapped in realities like this. I am going into an area which is a twilight zone, but there are many yogis who have created their own world around themselves. A yogi goes into a cave and actually creates his own universe and lives there. This is not a joke. He creates everything that he wants – his own kind of planets, his own kind of earth, his own kind of everything – and lives there very happily. A universe is contained inside the cave. You can create a whole universe in an atom’s space because “here and there” and “this much and that much” are a creation of the mind. There are many yogis like this, but they are no closer to realization than you. He lives in a different world, that is all. He is probably more caught up than you, because he is also the creator. He has learned the art of creation. This does not become an ultimate release. This just becomes a different kind of action, a different way of doing things. An artist draws a new world on a canvas. A yogi actually creates it. The artist’s creation is two-dimensional, whereas the yogi’s is three-dimensional. This is more deceptive. An artist can get so involved in the world he is creating that he starts believing it is true, and it is true for him. A poet believes that whatever he writes is the truth. Similarly, a painter deeply involved in what he is doing believes what he is painting is the truth. When two-dimensional things are like this, if you create three-dimensional things around yourself, you are definitely going to be more caught up with them. Source

To be honest, I have no idea what the difference is between samadhi and turiya in yoga terms. I tried looking into it but it's still not clear to me. If you research into both terms, they come up with very similar definitions.

Yoga nidra and the void (turiya)

By means of Yoga Nidra, skilled practitioners seek to access Turiya, not just when in meditation or absorbed samadhi states, but in all variations of consciousness- encompassing waking, dreaming and deep sleep. They seek lucidity in all states. Yoga Nidra is a powerful practice that guides us beyond mind and in fact turns mind upon itself where its obscuring nature is dissolved to reveal the inner Light that is perennially Bright, with eyes closed or open. Source

What is turiya?

Source: Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity by Tracee Stanley

Turiya is not a state apart from the grosser states but pervades all levels of reality as superconsciousness. Ramana Maharshi interprets turiya as the natural state that permeates the other states, the only whole reality. The Mandukya Upanishad discusses turiya as pure consciousness, which is indescribable, incomprehensible, and unthinkable by the mind, but ultimately realized as the one true self. Source

The four states of consciousness are jagrat, svapna, shushupti and turiya. Jagrat is waking consciousness, svapna is the dream consciousness, shushupti is the deep sleep consciousness and turiya is higher consciousness which is beyond all previous states. Entering the state of turiya requires inner silence. It can be achieved when the mind is free of mental blocks and bondages with time and space. The goal of yoga and meditation is to achieve turiya, where oneness is felt with the universe. Source

There are three states only, the waking, dream and sleep. Turiya is not a fourth one; it is what underlies these three. But people do not readily understand it. Therefore it is said that this is the fourth state and the only Reality. In fact it is not apart from anything, for it forms the substratum of all happenings; it is the only Truth; it is your very Being. The three states appear as fleeting phenomena on it and then sink into it alone. Therefore they are unreal. Source

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Expanding Consciousness through Yoga & Meditation Practices Yoga and meditation present an array of practices that facilitate the exploration of diverse states of consciousness, enhancing individuals’ mindfulness and self-awareness. This blog is dedicated to examining multiple practices associated with gross, subtle, causal, turiya, and turiyatita states of consciousness, illustrating the…

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Yoga Nidra: Combining Old Wisdom with New Health Benefits

Yoga Nidra, often termed as "yogic sleep", is an ancient practice amalgamating meditation, relaxation, and mindfulness. It's crafted to usher you into a state betwixt wakefulness and slumber, inducing profound physical, mental, and emotional relaxation. Unlike conventional meditation focusing on awareness and concentration, Yoga Nidra gently leads practitioners to a state of conscious awareness while being fully relaxed.

It is essentially a delicate balance between wakefulness and sleep, where the body sinks into profound rest while the mind remains vigilant. Originating from ancient yogic traditions, Yoga Nidra has evolved into a structured and accessible practice over time.

Key Elements of Yoga Nidra Practice:

1. Body Awareness, Breath, and Visualization: The practice commences with heightened awareness of the physical body, directing attention to each part. Utilizing conscious breathing and visualization techniques, practitioners are guided towards deep relaxation.

2. The Role of Intention (Sankalpa): Sankalpa, the intentional seed sown during Yoga Nidra, plays a pivotal role. Crafting and affirming specific positive intentions influence the subconscious, fostering personal and professional growth.

Key Benefits of Yoga Nidra Practice:

Physiological: Yoga Nidra is linked with reduced cortisol levels, improved immune function, and a balanced autonomic nervous system.

Psychological: Studies suggest positive impacts on stress reduction, anxiety management, and enhanced cognitive function.

In a study assessing the effects of Yoga Nidra on life stress and self-esteem in university students, participants underwent bi-weekly, 1-hour sessions of Yoga Nidra for 8 weeks. Results showcased significantly decreased life stress intensity levels and increased self-esteem scores in the Yoga Nidra group compared to the control group.

During a Yoga Nidra session, you recline in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and follow verbal instructions in a soothing guide's voice. The practice encompasses systematic body scanning, breath awareness, and guided imagery, culminating in profound relaxation.

Contrary to its name, the objective isn't to drift into sleep but to maintain a state of relaxed consciousness.

The Health Benefits of Yoga Nidra: Scientifically proven benefits include stress and anxiety reduction, enhanced focus and cognitive function, and improved sleep quality and overall well-being.

In the tranquil realm between wakefulness and sleep, Yoga Nidra serves as a potent tool for well-being. By blending ancient wisdom with modern practices, this intentional journey through breath and visualization offers a profound means to reduce stress, enhance cognitive function, and reconnect with our inner selves.

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