My right side is the hypertonic side, where the muscle stiffness, rigidity and pain is much more noticeable. I have found it very surprising that with Yoga Nidra, I can remain in this position, without moving, for over an hour even though I am not asleep, when otherwise I would usually be unable to stay with my body flat for long at all, and I would have to constantly move limbs around, due to muscle the stiffness, rigidity and pain. However, my previous experiments with meditation don`t appear to have lasted long, and it seems I didn`t take my own advice from that article, perhaps due to the apathy and lack of motivation which is naturally part of dopamine deficiency conditions, or perhaps as I didn`t feel safe enough to relax in the environment I was in at that time, or I had simply not reached the point in my own journey back then where I was ready to face some of the things the meditation sessions would throw at me. Yoga Nidra has also been shown to help increase "Heart Rate Variability" , which is a quantitative measure of how well we respond to, and how resilient we are to, stress, how big our "window of tolerance" is to stressors before we are triggered to into a threat response, and also how quickly we bounce back to a relaxed state after a stressor has come and gone.



















Hatha yoga which is very popular in the west, for example, conditions the muscle joints making them flexible, tones the muscles, strengthens the spine, eases back pain, correct body postures, creates balance, improves overall fitness and health, increases circulation, strengthens the heart, reduces blood sugar levels and cholesterol and assists in weight loss. It is common to see that we are making mistakes when we are ready "to take the leap"-we`re ready to become teachers instead of just remaining students. The brain has forgotten about muscles on that side, which become overly flaccid, making the muscles of the right side overcompensate by becoming overly tense. According to the Farias Technique for Dystonia, this means that my left side is actually the real problem, because it is the hypotonic side, where the pathways between the brain and muscles have become dormant. Practising this "touring" of awareness of our body therefore helps clear these nerve pathways and activates all sorts of different parts of the brain.



















According to the guides, the point of doing this fast full body tour is that different parts of the body are connected to different parts of the brain, via different nerve pathways. The most important point here for myself of being able to lie still during Yoga Nidra is that it allows me to be in the "off" state for a period of over an hour, yet without feeling the pain and rigidity of my Parkinson`s Disease at all. The first example of this form of meditation I found on Insight Timer was "Yoga Nidra for Stress and Anxiety" by Shannon Ryan, although the visualization part of this one doesn`t work for me. So the second part of meditation is to practice being aware of the thoughts arising rather than identified with thinking. I have certainly found my anxiety levels to have markedly decreased, and my ability to break out of looping, anxious thoughts improved, since taking up Yoga Nidra. An improved ability to cope with stress may be particularly pertinent to people with PD, for whom any stress tends to greatly amplify symptoms. I believe the guided tour of the body is particularly beneficial for PD, because underdeveloped, atrophied or inhibited proprioception (sense of movement and position of the body) and interoception (sense of the physiological state of the body) are part and parcel of the condition.



















Also, since I have rigidity dominant form of PD, I’m not sure how Yoga Nidra will interact with tremors, but I’d be interested from people with PD who practice it whether their tremors stop while doing so. At first you might see it as "there is a thought about doing laundry tomorrow" but after a while you do not even need to comprehend the content of the thought, you can just see that there is a thought and then you can let it go. If acupuncture can assist couples get pregnant, while spending much less money, less time, and risking less side effects, then of course acupuncture should be moved out from the "alternative" medicine and into the mainstream medicine. If you have trouble sleeping but enjoy story topics that might be slightly more obscure than those you’ll find in Nothing Much Happens, then Sleep With Me could be the right podcast for you. I did find examples of mindfulness meditations, re-assuring meditations, loving kindness and self-compassion meditations, which could all help, but I soon hit upon a couple of examples of "Yoga Nidra" guided meditations, which really seemed to provide the largest benefits.



































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