What Chinese Stress Balls Are and How to Use Them
There are many effective tools and techniques that are available to help relieve stress, but Chinese stress balls are some of the most popular of all. Chinese stress balls are used to help improve circulation and blood flow in the body and reduce stress levels. They are also good for improving balance and coordination, and activate your inner energy.
Benefits
The benefits of Chinese stress balls are plenty, and they can be extremely effective for helping you to achieve mental and physical wholeness. The popularity of these balls has now become widespread and there are a few practice tips that will help you to get started using these balls.
You should always practice in a safe place, one that will be quiet and keep you free from distraction. You should also make sure that there is carpeting or a thick rug on the floor where you are sitting in order to avoid damaging the balls if they are dropped.
To use the Chinese stress balls you simple start by having a hand and foot warm up, for which you should rub both of your hands vigorously together until they feel warm and then interlace your fingertips. After this you want to bend your wrists away from your body pointing outwards, making fists with your hands and making sure to keep your thumbs against your palms.
Stretch your hands out fully and then make fists again, and repeat several times. Then you rotate your ankles inward and outward, around in circular motions several times until they feel warm as well.
Now that you are warmed up, you can begin to do some hand exercises. One of the easiest exercises to do with the Chinese stress balls involves you placing a ball in one hand, cupping it lightly, and then rotating it with your fingers. You want to start rotating in a clockwise direction and then switch it up and rotate the other way. Once you have gotten the hang of this you can add in the other ball, and you want to put both balls in one hand to start, rotating them around each other with your fingers.
There are also many effective foot exercises that you can perform using these balls, one involving you placing two balls under the arch of your foot and then rolling the balls backwards and forwards. This will work out your entire ankle and calf, and leave you feeling relief from your stress.
