So in yoga nidra what we are doing is attaining a state of consciousness that is what's called in the yogic yogic scientific literature a hypno yogic state. So it's not hypnosis but it's not pure active consciousness. It is a very dormant awakeness if that kind of makes sense right you're in this trance and so in that trance you you're in the edit mode for your unconscious mind so this is where a sulpa comes in so a sulpa is a resolve that you put in there