Yoga Nidra For Confidence and Self-Love

Build confidence and self-love with this Yoga Nidra practice. Get yourself warm and comfortable so you can lie down and enjoy this yoga Nidra practice to help you feel more confident and connected to yourself.

Transcript

Welcome to your yoga nidra practice.

Please take your time to set yourself up laying down on the floor or your bed whatever feels comfortable.

Remembering that your body temperature can drop during yoga nidra.

So perhaps choosing to place a blanket over your body or an eye pillow if there is lots of light in the room.

Laying down on your back in shavasana.

The palms turned upwards and the body relaxed.

Take a moment to adjust everything.

Your body position,

Your clothes until you're completely comfortable.

Perhaps even placing a pillow under your knees to relieve any tension in your lower back.

Ideally in the practice of yoga nidra there is no physical movement.

If you haven't already please close down your eyes and try to keep them closed until the end.

Now take a deep breath in from your belly to the top of your lungs and as you exhale out of your mouth feel any stress or tension that you're holding leave your body.

One more time a deep breath in and releasing any stress or tension as you breathe out of the mouth.

We start our practice by dissolving physical tension in the body and creating relaxation.

It's not necessary for you to make movements or to deliberately try to relax your muscles.

Just invite in the feeling of relaxation and softness.

During yoga nidra you're functioning on the levels of hearing and awareness.

All you have to do is follow the sound of my voice.

Try not to intellectualize or analyze the instructions as this will disturb your mental relaxation.

Just simply follow my voice with total attention and feeling and if thoughts come to disturb you from time to time don't worry this is totally normal just come back to the practice.

Now allowing yourself to become calm and steady.

Softening every part of your body.

Bringing about an inner feeling of relaxation to your whole body.

Finding complete stillness and ease.

Developing your awareness of the body from the top of the head to the tips of the toes and repeating to yourself I am relaxed.

Complete stillness,

Complete awareness of your entire body.

I am relaxed.

Now say to yourself I am aware.

I'm going to practice yoga nidra.

I will not sleep.

Now we take time to set a resolve.

Let it be simple and allow it to be something that springs forth naturally.

Let it be a short positive statement in very simple and clear language.

State it three times with awareness,

Feeling and emphasis.

It is said the resolve that you make during yoga nidra will come true in your life.

Now bring your awareness to your right hand thumb,

Second finger,

Third finger,

Fourth finger,

Fifth finger,

Palm of the hand.

Become aware of your palm,

Back of the hand,

The wrist,

The lower arm,

The elbow,

The upper arm,

The shoulder,

The armpit,

The right waist,

The right hip,

The right thigh,

The kneecap,

The calf muscle,

The ankle,

The heel,

The sole of the right foot,

The top of the foot,

The big toe,

The second toe,

The third toe,

The fourth toe,

The fifth toe.

Now become aware of the left hand thumb,

Second finger,

Third finger,

Fourth finger,

Fifth finger,

Palm of the hand,

Back of the hand,

The wrist,

The lower arm,

The elbow,

The upper arm,

The shoulder,

The armpit,

The left waist,

The left hip,

The left thigh,

The kneecap,

The calf muscle,

The ankle,

The heel,

The sole of the left foot,

The top of the foot,

The big toe,

The second toe,

Third toe,

Fourth toe,

And fifth toe.

Now become aware of your whole right leg,

The whole left leg,

Both legs together,

The whole of the right arm,

The whole of the left arm,

Both arms together,

The whole of the back,

Buttocks,

Spine,

Shoulder blades,

The whole of the front,

Abdomen,

Chest,

The whole of the back and front together,

The whole of the head,

The whole body together,

The whole body together,

The whole body together,

Laying in stillness.

Now bring awareness to your breath.

Feel the flow of your breath in and out of your lungs.

Do not try to change the rhythm.

Allow the breathing to be natural as though you are not doing it.

There is no effort.

Maintain awareness of your breath and continue complete awareness of your breath,

Observing your breath as it moves in and out of your body in a soft and effortless way.

The awareness of your breath takes you deep into an awareness of your being.

You see a great,

Wide,

Tall sunflower in front of you.

Behind it is a golden,

Glowing field of wheat.

The sunflower rises up gloriously full of light and energy.

In the middle of the sunflower is a baby,

Young,

Pure and innocent,

Just days old,

Wrapped tightly.

You feel a strong,

Intense,

Giving love towards the baby.

It represents all that is good about humanity.

You feel how much the baby is worth.

You feel deeply in your heart how much the baby deserves love.

The baby is you.

You feel your feet connected to the earth,

Wholesome energy flowing through you.

You raise up your arms to the sky.

The energy and life force of the baby joins with you and flows up through you and into the sky.

Feeling this sense of self-love,

Respect and self-confidence blooming within you like a sunflower reaching up towards the sun.

Now begin to repeat your resolve.

Repeat the same resolve that you made at the beginning of our practice.

Try not to change it.

Repeat your resolve three times with full awareness and feeling.

Now relax all efforts.

Draw your mind outside and become aware of your breathing.

Become aware of the natural,

Spontaneous rhythm of your breath.

Awareness of your whole body and awareness of breathing.

Your body is laying totally relaxed on your chosen surface.

You are breathing quietly and slowly.

Develop awareness of your body from the top of the head to the tips of the toes and say mentally to yourself,

I am relaxed.

Repeat it to yourself twice more.

I am relaxed.

I am relaxed.

Now become aware of the surface that you're laying on and the position of your body laying on that surface.

Visualize the room around you becoming aware of your surroundings.

Lie quietly for some time and keep your eyes closed.

Now begin to move your body and stretch yourself,

Perhaps pointing the toes forward and reaching the arms up overhead.

Take your time.

There is no hurry.

When you are sure that you are completely awake,

Slowly begin to sit up and open your eyes.

Our practice of yoga nidra is now complete for today.

Namaste.