Did you Know? You know that great energetic feeling you get after a nice long run? Runner’s High: your brain feels fresh, awake and very clear allowing your cerebral thought proceses to work the way they were intended – fluidly and unmuddled. Win Wenger states in his book ‘How to Increase Your Intelligence’ that “only those brain cells which are open to an ample capillary blood supply are thoroughly developed. Away from such source of supply, brain cells remained undeveloped and useless. In short you can much improve the physical state of your entire brain [by increasing its active blood flow].” Plain and simple, a better nourished brain functions better.
You can work on improving brain function in many ways including exercise and meditation, but one technique over-looked by many is inversion. Peter Russell notes in ‘The Brain Book’ that “the brain operates 7% faster and 14% more accurate while inverted.”
Not only is inversion a great practice to clear your head, it is also a great “flush” for the rest of the body. Inversion Therapy helps accelerate the cleansing of blood and lymph fluids, improves skin tone (a natural botox), improves circulation to scalp improving hair growth, decongests abdominal organs, releives varicose veins and improves vision.
Inversion is really a great practice for all ages. Take for example, in the last developmental stages in the womb, a baby is inverted and this gravitational pull in turn forces oxygen and nourishment laden blood into the brain to accelerate development by the time of birth. Cool isn’t it? Moral of the story? Inversion is pro-health and anti-aging. Keep inverting!