A Yoga Nidra to assist with managing stress levels and forming a more relaxed relationship with life. The affirmation used is: "I am at peace with myself as I am and the world as it is." So often stress arises because we refuse to accept reality. We want circumstances to be different or we want to be showing up differently. All of our energy goes into rejecting the situation as it is rather than accepting what we cannot change and focusing our efforts on what we can change. When we push things away, we give them more power over us. When we can embrace and accept everything exactly as it is, we are empowered to change it. This affirmation could also be stated as “I accept myself as I am and the world as it is.”