Yoga Nidra: Reducing deep habits: Thus, Yoga Nidra is a tool for examining, attenuating, and eliminating habit patterns or samskaras, which are not useful. Habitual negative actions, normally arising from these deep impressions can thus bereduced and eliminated through the practice of Yoga Nidra.
Subtle thoughts with little charge: Imagine a photo on the screen of your computer. It might be a picture you find pleasing or offensive. However, imagine that you saw a print of the binary numbers, all of the zeros and ones, that mathematically formed those pictures in the memory of the hard disk. There would be no reaction whatsoever. There would just be a bunch of numbers, without any emotional charge to them. This is what happens when witnessing samskaras (deep impressions that drive karma, or actions) while you are in Yoga Nidra. There may be subtle traces of emotions, but they are very, very subtle, and do not seem to have the charge of active desires, wants, wishes, dislikes, or aversions.
Transformation of samskaras: By witnessing the samskaras in the state of Yoga Nidra, a certain transformation happens. They start to lose their coloring of attraction and aversion. They start to weaken, and are less and less able to later control our thoughts and actions. In this way, we use Yoga Nidra to reduce or soften the impact of our samskaras that play out as karma.
Who I am: Through Yoga Nidra, there is an ever increasing awareness that, "Who I am is different from my thoughts!"In Yoga Nidra, you experience consciousness underneath, or prior to all of the active mental process, both conscious and that which is normally unconscious. Being awake in this place, underneath or behind the thinking process can seem quite strange, bewildering at first. Gradually, it brings increasing peace of mind and insight about the nature of who we truly are.
Doorway beyond: In Yoga Nidra one touches the doorway to the awareness that still operates beyond all of the levels of mind, that leads to realization of the center of consciousness, or Self.
It comes in time: Once again, you may or may not reach the state of Yoga Nidra in the beginning. It does not matter. The deeper experience of Yoga Nidra may come soon, or it may come later, but it will definitely come with practice. In any case, you will surely find Yoga Nidra to be a very relaxing part of your life.