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you have trouble with, or know of someone who has, arthritis aches and pains,
hypertension, chest pain, sinus, asthma, over-weight, indigestion, heartburn,
constipation, anxiety, lack of energy, cancer and/or difficulties with sexual
relations?
Learn
to
follow the acupuncture meridians and release energy to symmetrically stretch and
tone strained neck, back, torso, pelvic and extremity muscles aggravated by
chronic fatigue and severely injured in traumatic accidents.
Realize how
by integrating these exercises for one minute twice daily, leads to symmetry and
previously unachieved flexibility. And understand why this mechanism
works and how it affects other activities of the body including digestion,
elimination, breathing, circulation and possibly the development and/or control
of infections, degenerative processes and cancer.
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ne often sees the Chinese Balls at flea markets, specialty shops, import stores and certainly as souvenirs in San Francisco and other Chinatowns throughout the world. Though many tools or devices including exercise machines, stretch straps, weights and assorted massagers are available to rub or stretch the body, the subtlety of the Chinese Balls with their innate circular symmetry and dynamic harmony (dynamic pertaining to the high vs low frequency of the chimes inside the individual balls) make them unique as a tool to facilitate the balance and health which derives from their use.
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we age our bodies accumulate the traumas of our day to day existence. Whether it be scratches, broken
bones, polyps, arteriosclerosis or susceptibility to infection, our bodies
encounter the environment and our systems react to what we breathe, what we eat,
what hits our skin in the form of ultraviolet light, heat or cold and to what we
take in through our minds. We must
somehow adapt and transform this energy into our bodies or else reflect the
impinging force in order to maintain a sense of equilibrium in concert with
transformation. Our bodies constrict the blood vessels when we are exposed
to cold, vasodilate (expand) to relieve heat and produce sweat when we are
exposed to heat, digest food, integrate information, battle bacteria and produce
new cells throughout our skin, muscle and vital organs.
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hroughout the development of our
western culture we have been exposed to various philosophies of health. Most
predominant has been allopathy,
scientific medicine in which scientific studies are requisite to precisely treat
the diagnosed ailment. Example: Reduction of hypertension through double blind
studies. Peripherally we have been exposed in the western culture to other
philosophies including homeopathy,
naturopathy, osteopathy and chiropractic medicine. Only within the last
10-20 years in concert with the globalization and technological changes of the
world has the western culture begun to transform and adopt what may be
considered a more eastern philosophical approach to health. The first example
has been the incorporation of acupuncture
with recent statutory licensing of acupuncture physicians within the United
States. Chiropractors, in having won
a legal case against the American Medical Association, have also now been
incorporated with the allopathic
physician especially in the treatment of acute and chronic back and neck
disorders even to the point where academies of orthopaedic physicians are
presenting chiropractic.
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utritional
insight and the consensual knowledge that vitamins A, B, E, and C as well as
other minerals are extremely important in helping to minimize the inflammatory
effect which is believed to be, especially when enhanced, is a significant
factor in the . This, coupled with
a better understanding of genetics, has been important in deciphering the
process of growth and healing.
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eligion,
a belief system, and a need for the sense of unity have developed behaviors and
traditions through specific cultures which appear to function by directing
individual social behavior towards the primordial efforts of ongoing survival of
the organism that is man and man in relation to his society and his world.
How
do the Chinese Balls contribute or facilitate the release of energy? What are
the energy pathways and how are they related to the customary interpretation of
neurological and sensitive singer, flexible, graceful, articulate and fluent
individual. What are the components of these people and what are some of the
complaints of others who feel as if their health is not optimal?
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he Chinese Balls, by transducing an infinite amount of points as the two balls roll over each other, act as a microscopic lever or opener of potentially annealed fibroarticular (scar tissue attached to bone) surfaces. By rolling the balls, not only in the hands but along the body, one will encounter asymmetry and in turn will outline naturally the acupuncture meridians. When the body is unable to comfortably continue along a path by rolling or shaking the ball one might be able to jiggle (discriminate between higher and lower frequency chime within the ball) and open a pathway or circumvent this pathway, follow another meridian and eventually facilitate movement of the spine and a realignment of the musculoskeletal posture so that appropriate tension and compensatory tensions will be created which cause specific rotation and movement of the blocked, in most cases, vertebra.
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24 movable vertebrae of the cervical, thoracic lumbosacral spine act as a pivot
in a coaxial conduit through which energy is rotated.
Each vertebra has six joints, two articulating facet joints at the top, one on
each side and two on the bottom as well as a larger parallel surface area on the
top and bottom. The movements of the balls precipitate different combinations of
movements within the various facet intervertebral joints.
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hen one has an injury to one of his joints, or suffers from a nutritional disintegration of the biomechanical structure, a torsion develops in the musculoskeletal relationship which manifests with pressure, usually at the points of dispersal or force, throughout the spine, that is, the curve. When the curve becomes less of a curve and more of a corner, the energy rather than going symmetrically through the joints is blocked with the development of lengthening on one side or shortening on the other side and resultant degenerative processes with concurrent inflammatory reaction and attraction of inflammatory cells. The biological response is to restore the necessary functional integrity to support the structure regardless of the optimal repair being consistent with the original structure. This development of a relatively inflexible localized structure (scar) inhibits the passage of energy, which in the pre-injured state, allowed a flux of energy to pass through without being potentially stored. This is also the case with the inflammatory process of arteriosclerosis. As the blood passes in it’s eddies across various arteries there’s a gradual wear and tear. The deposition of fatty materials linked with the inflammatory process in chronic or ongoing increased blood pressure and in conjunction with less than optimal amounts of essential vitamins or minerals for self repair causes an ongoing, degenerative and destructive cascade which eventually, when integrated over time, leads to narrowing and diminished flexibility of the vascular tree, thereby resulting in peripheral vascular disease as manifested by diminished circulation, coronary insufficiency (chest pain) , myocardial infarction (heart attack) or cerebral vascular accident, embolism or thrombosis.
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the passage of stool
through the intestines, depending on transit time, bulk, chemical content,
localized bacteria and facilitated movement as directed by muscle tension and
skeletal alignment can result in the
development of polypoid (protruding tissue) formation where bowel movement pulls
the lining of the intestine with it with the gradual precipitation of a polypoid
structure which in turn is unable to retract because of skeletal disharmony and
in conjunction with genetic predisposition or potential carcinogenic, mutagenic,
toxic and/or excretory metabolites (products of biological reactions) cause the
rapidly dividing inflammatory cells, at the site of the polypoid structure, to
revert to an uncontrolled pattern of growth which in turn results in a
carcinogenic response (cancer).
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he Chinese
Balls, used by following the system
of rolling the balls not only in the hands but over the body throughout the
surface area, in any manner of rotation which is circular in nature causes some
muscles to roll one way and opposite muscles to be pulled which consequently
will roll the opposite way. Eventually
symmetric toning transpires and areas of asymmetry and malalignment are
subsequently stretched and gradually released leading to individual movement of
facet and intervertebral joints with the consequent facilitation of rotation and
transduction of force to hip, knee, ankle, toe, shoulder, elbow, hand, wrist
joints, neck joints and temporomandibular joints.
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any different sounds have been associated with the
meditative process. Certain sounds appear universally harmonically perceived to
the human organism to represent various healing functions. The sound of OM
has often been mentioned in transcendental meditation.
The word Shalom in Hebrew
represents peace, hello and good-bye.
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he word QI
in Chinese represents life and vital pathways. Chi,
in Hebrew, also represents life. Various elements of sound influence separate
parts of the brain. The human body also has it’s own rhythmic patterns. Growing evidence demonstrates
the rhythms of the heart, the brain
and other organs enjoy a special
synchronicity. Illness may arise when these inner rhythms are disturbed.
Toning engages the limbic mid brain which covers emotion. The real power of
sound is in the way the tonal or harmonic aspects influence our emotions in mid
brain functions and for this reason the subtlety of the dynamic relationship of the high and
low frequencies of the Chinese balls has the power of not only moving the
muscles around the ear but of influencing our emotions and mid brain functions thereby having a regulatory effect on
the fundamental balance of the relationship of the body’s muscles and
structural integrity. Typically low sound resonates into other
lower parts of the body and high sound resonates in the higher parts of the
body. Sound is linked to the physical body by the 9th and 10th
cranial nerves. These carry sound impulses through the ear and skull to the
brain. Motor and sensory impulses are then sent along the vagus nerve (which
helps regulate breathing, speech and heart rate) to the throat, heart and
diaphragm. The vagus nerve and the emotional response to the limbic system are a
link between the ear, the brain and the autonomic nervous system.
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he Chinese describe qigong which combines gentle movement, self massage, relaxation,
exercises, breathing, meditation and visualization, and instead of following a
prescribed set of instructions each individual is guided to move about, or not
move at all, by an internal sense of the body’s needs. To move the QI
along the meridians, one rubs the hands together, rubs the face as if washing
the face, strokes the palm upwards across the cheek, eyes, forehead and over the
head, neck, back, shoulders, arms and down the sides of the rib cage, legs, up
the insides of the feet, the inner surfaces of the legs and the front side of
the torso onto the face, the acupuncture microsystems and reflex microsystems of
the hands, feet and ears. Pressures applied to these areas, stimulate QI throughout the body. When
pressure on one point causes pain to shoot somewhere else, this is significant
because as pain becomes more prominent at a point removed from the point just
pressed, then the new point of pain is the specific, that is, the true control
point and “magic button” in regards to acupuncture or acupressure.
Rolling the balls over these areas amplifies the balancing response.
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n a more universal level, one might
consider using any number of other tools - a baton, football, bat, ball, weights
- any device which has weight and can be used to change the relationship of the integrity
of the muscles attached to the musculoskeletal system. The uniqueness of the Chinese balls is in the isometric capacity of
transferring energy through the balls and through the body causing the body to
eventually pass through itself rather than continuing in an amplification and
projection in the same direction which, in turn, leads to prolonged and
increased stress. The Chinese
balls work to neutralize the stress by bringing the energy through itself in the
same way a pendulum passes through the center as it moves to the opposite side. The
Chinese balls, by rolling along the meridians and through the trigger points or
reflex points of the hands, feet and even the ears, in conjunction with dynamic
frequency changes, which are in relative harmony between the balls, leads to the
stimulation of the limbic system through the processing of sound waves and helps
to center and lead the body to recover it’s innate sense of balance by
releasing tension on the individual intervertebral joints.
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hen should one begin using this technique and what
progress should one expect? By using the
balls for a minimum of 1-2 minutes twice daily one develops a gradual
appreciation of the process which evolves. A person may, if he is optimally
using this technique, extend the time with a more rapid response
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o, if I do these exercises daily I will not get
cancer, have arthritis, arteriosclerosis, hiatal hernia, constipation, aches and
pains or other serious illnesses? No, but this technique used daily, in conjunction with proper nutrition and
coupled with a favorable genetic
predisposition, will lead to the release of blocked energy channels, greater
flexibility, improved health and longer life ...
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