Suggestions for Boosting the Potency of Your Inversion Therapy Plan
Accept Yourself and Learn Not to Focus on the Pain While Being Inverted
As you begin meditating while hanging upside-down on an inversion table, keep in mind that before you can become who you truly want to be, you have to learn to accept who you are right now. Come into a comfortable position. You can begin at a modest inversion angle which is around twenty to thirty degrees beyond horizontal, or go full inversion.
Close your eyes and focus on your breath until you find a rhythm and become calm and centered. Visualize a cluster of stars in a clear and bright night sky. As you continue to gaze into the infinite darkness, focus on one tiny dot of light in the distance.
Continue to gaze at the light, letting it expand and become more intense. Watch the light as it opens up into particles of light and energy, and let this brilliant energy form a pair of hands. In the hands, you notice a happy, smiling baby. The baby is you. It’s not the current you who has been burdened by back pains, worldly concerns or whatever problems you find yourself dealing with over and over again.
This is the real you, the universal child who cannot feel pain nor die. Pain, loneliness, disappointment, fear, anger and all other negative emotions have no meaning to this child. This is a child created from eternal light, whose purpose is to love and be loved. Discover an understanding that, if, for some reason, this love has not been returned, it is no fault of the child’s. Understand that the highest purpose and only obligation of the child is to show love in this present moment.
Combine Inversion Therapy with Transcendental Meditation (TM)
In this type of practice, the patient can seek a solution to not only his back problem, but also convert negative emotions into positive energy. Transcendental meditation differs from any traditional forms of meditation in one way: It emphasizes the importance of a mantra, which is personal and kept to oneself.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (the Beatles’ personal guru) brought TM to the West way back in 1958. It has attained widespread acceptance in the medical community for its ability to help relieve stress, psychosomatic disorders and even addictions.
Sound vibrations and mantras are thought to have a healing effect on the body because they induce a relaxed state that promotes healing. Studies have shown that the repetition of a single word not only slows the heart rate and lowers blood pressure, but also calms the brain by increasing alpha-wave activity, which is associated with drowsiness and relaxed attention.
According to neuroscientists at Moscow’s Brain Research Institute in Russia, this form of meditation produces an activity in the brain’s frontal cortex, creating a state of '"restful alertness” and improved mental performance.
How to Begin
Try to practice twice daily for at least ten minutes at a time, preferably at the same time each day. It’s nice to begin your day with a combination of inversion therapy and transcendental meditation. It helps to clear away the psychic debris left over from the previous day and prepares you to face whatever challenges are in store for you in the coming day.
Creating this reflective and safe space provides us with the beautiful gift of quiet time for ourselves, giving us the chance to discover who we truly are and what we truly want out of life. It’s a unique opportunity to nurture ourselves, tap into our inner resources, and find a lasting sense of peace.
Anyone can meditate, but it will take practice and discipline to meditate while performing inversion therapy. We are constantly bombarded and stimulated with modern life, and we are conditioned to look for a quick fix in food, entertainment, drink or drugs, especially to get rid of physical pain.
I know that setting aside time to do "nothing” may seem totally self-indulgent, but it’s actually just as necessary as physical exercise for overall well-being.
Anyone can meditate, but it will take practice and discipline to meditate while performing inversion therapy. We are constantly bombarded and stimulated with modern life, and we are conditioned to look for a quick fix in food, entertainment, drink or drugs, especially to get rid of physical pain.
I know that setting aside time to do "nothing” may seem totally self-indulgent, but it’s actually just as necessary as physical exercise for overall well-being.