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Healing of body and mind through yoga is gaining immense significance at present as a world-wide science of therapy. In this context, yoga-nidra, a self-therapy technique of yoga and tantra, is important as an effective means of regulating the mind. In this volume, Dr. Panda, a noted philosopher and psychologist, yogi and tantrist, delves into the principles and practices of yoga-nidra based on materials from the tantras and Patanjali Yoga in an attempt to explain its benefits with special reference to modern medicine.

The book presents yoga-nidra as a scientific discipline that is a potent means to strengthen the body's immune system and thus to prevent and cure diseases and to regulate one's life patterns. It examines in detail the theory of yoga-nidra, going into the Indian concept of mid and personality. It establishes the psychological basis of yoga-nidra by comparing hypnotic trace and yogic trance and Freudian and Yoga-Vedanta psychologies. It presents the techniques of yoga-nidra and deals with the applications of yoga-nidra with relation to curing of psychosomatic and other diseases of common occurrence and to solving current problem such as drug addiction and stress-induced maladies.

This well-conceived and through research work will useful to scholars of ancient Indian medical science and psychology, particularly those concerned with study of yoga vis-à-vis modern medical problem and systems. It will be of equal importance for the general readers owing to its interesting subject matter.