Inversion Table Therapy Visualization Techniques
Clearing away negative conditioning can go a long way to help heal your back and revitalize your life. And visualizations are an effective way to deprogram these negative thoughts and help attract whatever it is that you want. They can also help to bring about personal growth by helping you to better communicate with your higher self. In this technique, imagery and symbols help unlock the unconscious mind, and you can either control the scene or let the events unfold.
The Best Visualization Technique during Inversion Therapy
Here’s a useful visualization to help you relax while being inverted on an inversion table:
Close your eyes and focus on your breath for a few moments. Don’t try to change it, simply find the rhythm of it and get into the flow. Now begin to review the events of your day, starting with the present moment and going backward until the moment you awoke. Don’t linger on any one event or person or conversation, just rerun them and try to recall as much detail as possible.
Include as many physical sensations as you can, such as textures, smells and temperature. Remain detached, with no judgments. Don’t allow yourself to take anything personally. When you get to the moment of awakening, let go and visualize a stream of images fast-forwarding on the screen of your mind.
Acknowledge that the day is over and is now a part of your history. You can’t relive it. Let your intention for tomorrow be that you will live every moment for the present.
Inverting Therapy Visualization Technique That Promotes Loving Kindness
This technique helps cultivate a positive outlook and mood as well as compassion, forgiveness and love for all people.
Love Really Is All You Need
Come into a comfortable inverted position on your inversion therapy table and close your eyes. Begin to watch your breath for a few moments, letting yourself find a rhythm, an ebb and flow, and then feel yourself centering. Begin thinking about a person that you love or have loved and imagine you’re with this person. Visualize him or her beside you and pay attention to the details. What is he or she wearing? Where are you?
Begin to open up to the feeling of love for this person. Allow your entire mind and body to fill with this joyful love, and then let go of the person. Now begin to focus entirely on the feeling of love, and be present in the feeling of love’s energy moving and flowing within your heart and soul.
Complement Inversion Therapy with Other Activities
If you practice inversion therapy, you’re doing a form of spinal decompression with the aid of an inversion table. Spine decompression in an upside-down position heightens your awareness of physical sensations, and doing something as simple as a walk through a beautiful garden on a spring morning or taking a tai chi class can help soothe and calm your mind and your back.
A Walk in the Park after an Inversion Therapy Routine
Taking a brisk stroll in the park after completing your inversion therapy routine is a good idea. It’s best to find a long, straight path in the country or perhaps on a beach. It should be a favorite place if possible, but even if you live in the city, you can practice walking with proper posture.
When you begin your walk, acknowledge the wind on your face, the way the earth feels under your feet, the light, the colors, the smells and the sounds. Try not to attach thought or judgment to the experience; instead, just enjoy the present moment.
The objective is to improve your back condition and help you be mindful of your surroundings as well as your body. If you become distracted by thoughts, bring yourself back into the moment, back into the state of detached awareness.