Dr. Alok Kanojia
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That's a really hard one because it has no preparatory practice.
It has no physiology to it.
It's just catch the moment of sleep.
That's it.
So that's where, you know, that technique is normally if you've trained yourself, then you can do it.
But it's really hard to do just off the cuff.
Nidra is very helpful from the get-go, right?
So from an autonomic nervous system standpoint, very helpful.
We tend to be hypersympathetically activated.
So yoga nidra is very good for parasympathetic activation.
Yoga nidra is also very good for the rotation of your somatosensory cortex.
So we have this idea of the homunculus.
That's not really what it is.
And we can, if I'm wrong- The map of self.
Yeah.
Right?
So really what it is, your somatosensory cortex is plastic.
Mm-hmm.
And when you do rotations of awareness through your body, it's really good for you.
Really helps with things like chronic pain.