Chinese Therapy Balls – Hollow Silver with Chimes
Uses: Flexibility, Limberness, Stress Relief
Chinese Therapy Balls, also commonly known as Baoding Balls, Chinese Exercise Balls, Chinese Therapy Balls, Chinese Stress Balls, and Chinese Health Balls originated in Baoding, China. a small town in the Heibei province, during the Ming Dynasty. They are great for musicians, computer users, athletes, magicians, gamers, surgeons and anybody else who uses their hands extensively. The Chinese Thearapy Balls are designed to help relieve stress while building finger dexterity and wrist and forearm strength.
Baoding balls are usually hollow and made from chrome-plated steel, with most containing a chime. People sometimes call these chime balls or harmony balls. You will find that Baoding Balls can come with many designs crafted onto them. The cloisonne balls usually have hand made designs which depict symbols or characters related to harmony, health, and other positive forces.
Baoding balls are usually used for exercise and meditation, but are also good when employed for medical reasons. To use them for exercise, place two Baoding balls within your palm then rotate them clockwise and counterclockwise. Gravity will help you keep on controlling the balls. There are many exercises possible. One is trying to not to let the balls touch one another during manipulation, as advanced users do. Such users of Baoding balls can frequently use more than two balls at one time. Manipulating the balls in your hand not only exercises hand muscles, but forearm and shoulder muscles as well.
Alternative Medicine advocates believe that the balls are beneficial for medical reasons when they touch pressure points or acupuncture points found all over the hand. A practitioner of western medicine would find it hard to believe that such balls have health benefits, but it helps to realize that practitioners of Chinese medicine believe that all bodily systems are linked to one another. Chinese medicine advocates believe one should not just treat symptoms but rather should examine the root cause of the symptoms. In connection, Baoding balls could be prescribed by a Chinese doctor with a patient whose internal energy or Qi has stagnated and thus, caused the problems for the patient.
The balls follow certain principles involving touching the meridians (just like in acupuncture or shiatsu massage). The meridians (known as Jingluo in Chinese traditional medical theory) act as channels or pathways via which Qi (vital energy within each person) moves throughout the body. These Jingluo meridians also feature the acupuncture points. Hence, touching each meridian will produce health benefits. Your ten fingers are interconnected with the human cranial nerve, as well as important human organs such as the intestines, stomach, gallbladder, kidneys, lungs, spleen, liver and heart. Thus, when the meridians are stimulated, there is improved circulation of vital energy and blood in our bodies.
Chinese practitioners claim that muscles remain nimble, bones are strengthened and the mind kept sober through prolonged usage of the health balls. Other benefits are blood circulates more freely, and different chronic diseases such as hypertension are kept from developing. In time (in terms of many years of practicing Baoding balls use) the brain becomes healthier and you will notice that your intelligence and memory improves. Furthermore, fatigue goes away, your worries disappear, stress is reduced, and in the end your life is extended.
Choosing a size: start with the size that’s most comfortable for you.
Aumenta le dimensioni per aumentare la flessibilità e la libertà di movimento delle mani. Diminuire le dimensioni per aumentare la coordinazione.Nota del terapeuta: se si utilizza per migliorare la gamma di movimento dopo un infortunio, utilizzare varie dimensioni per ottenere il miglioramento. Per migliorare lestensione, usa palline più grandi. Per migliorare la flessione, usa palline più piccole. Le palle solide possono facilitare un modello di movimento più naturale per chi ha una flessione limitata. Aggiungono anche peso, che può aumentare la forza.
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Storia: le sfere di ferro cinesi sono state a lungo famose come uno dei “tre tesori” di Baoding, in Cina. prodotte durante la dinastia Ming (1368-1644), le sfere di ferro sono state spesso migliorate nel corso dei secoli da esperti artigiani cinesi. In origine, queste sfere erano semplici oggetti cilindrici solidi. Successivamente, gli artigiani iniziarono a progettare sfere cave e ad inserire piastre sonore che producono e toni bassi quando vengono utilizzati. Queste palline più leggere sono più facili da maneggiare e i toni musicali contribuiscono al processo di rilassamento che risulta dallesercizio con loro.
Istruzioni: le palline vengono posizionate in una mano e ruotate in in senso orario o antiorario. Questo esercizio manterrà tutti i punti delle mani in movimento costante. Con i muscoli delle dita e degli avambracci che si contraggono e si rilassano armoniosamente. I principianti dovrebbero selezionare palline di dimensioni più piccole e poi, nel tempo, aumentare Se la dimensione della palla migliora man mano che la tua competenza migliora. In definitiva, si possono esercitare entrambe le mani alternativamente o contemporaneamente e si può anche scegliere di utilizzare tre o quattro palline in una mano.
Manutenzione: le palline sono di metallo e, quindi, devono essere mantenute asciutte e pulite. Sebbene le palline siano forti e durevoli, i proprietari dovrebbero evitare di sbatterle violentemente luna contro laltra e contro altri oggetti e superfici solide. Se si prevede di non utilizzarli per un lungo periodo di tempo, è consigliabile rivestire le palline con cera o grasso per la manutenzione e la conservazione.