How to Reprogram Your Mind

Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that accesses your subconscious mind, altering deep-seated samskaras or behavioral habits.

You know the place just before you fall asleep?

As you feel your body putting up the closed-for-business sign, locking the door, and counting the profit in the register, it begins to go into a state of hibernation.

Your mind shifts from logic to mysticism. You’re aware of your bed yet your awareness is floating away from physical reality.

At this point, you might feel like you are falling and you are still aware enough to catch yourself right before you drift into complete sleep.

This place between asleep and awake is where the unconscious mind connects with consciousness. We can enter this state through a guided meditation called Yoga Nidra or yogic sleep. This is a powerful practice to promote self-healing by reprogramming your mind.

Changing Our Minds By Changing Our Brains

You have heard the phrase: “A child’s mind is like a sponge.” Their brains aren’t fully developed, so neurons continuously try to make new connections and grow. For example, in early childhood, we make about 1 million new connections every second.

By the time we are adults, we have about 100 trillion of these connections in place. At this point making new connections isn’t quite so easy because many, if not all, of our neurons have already made a connection.

Once a connection is made it is difficult to alter it without effort.

Our minds try to protect our perception of reality by maintaining these connections.

Luckily, by understanding that change is necessary no matter how old or experienced we are, we can use new information to break old connections and form new ones using Yoga Nidra.

Breaking Behavioral Patterns With Positivity

What controls the neurological connections or patterns made in our brains?

Our experiences and reactions to those experiences.

Emotions are one of the biggest contributors to how we react. One of the most common emotions is fear or anxiety, which…