For Episode 68 of MARS MESSINA PRESENTS, Mars takes the audience through a YOGA NIDRA session. Yoga Nidra is a  Sanskrit term meaning "yogic sleep". It is a deep relaxation technique and a form of meditation. It is an ancient technique where the practitioner enters the deep states of conscious relaxation.  It is a systematic practice of moving awareness from our external world to the inner world.

It brings us to a state of conscious sleep where our senses, intellect, and mind relax. We become free from the concepts of time, space and reason. When this happens, brain activity reduces and the body goes in the healing state. It has been claimed that one hour of Yoga Nidra can give the same benefit of a four-hour sleep. As the body enters a healing state, you can clear up metabolic wastes at a cellular level, refresh the mind and remove baggage from the subconscious.

BEDTIME STORIES FROM THE ACOUSTIC BOOKSHELF ends with a reading from a piece of prose that is attributed to many authors and has many titles. I won't list them all here, but the reading is a perfect nightcap to our Yoga Nidra session.

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