Originally used in medical therapy, exercise ball is used to support body while exercising. These balls provide support to body when you do a specific exercise in a specific position and need to maintain balance. Most exercise balls are made of burst proof latex or other materials and are safe to use.

Many yoga postures and muscle toning exercise can be done only with help of support. Exercise balls are quite useful for these postures. Exercise balls introduce an element of stability to exercise that you would not normally get in floor exercise. Your body responds automatically to perceived instability to keep balanced on exercise ball. This helps in strengthening muscles that are not actively participating in exercise.

Exercise Balls- Effective For Physiotherapy

An exercise ball is also useful for physiotherapy treatment. These balls helps to get rid of backache and spinal disorders. The small range movement and adjustment of balance of spine induced by exercising with exercise ball help in reducing back pain.

The Swiss ball exercise for people with back pain provide them a simple way to restore movements after a back pain episode. It also results in improved muscle strength, greater flexibility and wide range of motion of spine during treatment.

What we see in physical world is mass of nucleus and electrons, but what we don’t ordinarily see is that huge amount of empty space in between. 99% of physical world, our bodies, plants, buildings etc., is in fact ‘empty’ space. However, when this ‘empty space’ is tampered with in such instances as atomic bomb and nuclear power, we can see that each atom contains and amazing amount of unseen energy.

We know that atoms are always moving and vibrating. It is my idea (and I’m not necessarily only person to think this) that it is universal energy, Chi or Prana that passes through spaces of these atoms and creates their movement. This is how frequencies we call Reiki/Reiki-Seichem, and other words for healing frequencies, can be transmitted through physical body of practitioner to physical body of recipient. This energy can then be concentrated and organised by body to bring about physical healing. Likewise, this energy can also be used by surrounding emotional and mental layers of body to bring about healing. Without this energy flowing through atoms they become out of balance and ‘die’.

Explained in this way, Reiki/Reiki-Seichem does not seem so ‘far out’ or ‘spooky’. It helps everyday person to understand ideas of healing when we can put it in scientific terms, and it also helps with respect and acceptance of healing modalities within society. Often practitioners describe essence of channelling energy as channelling love, spiritual force, God energy and other esoteric terms. This often creates idea that we cannot understand what is happening and therefore could be a creation of faith/belief. By explaining it in scientific terms we can reach far more people and gain credibility for what we do in an age of technology and rationalism.

Samantha Thurlby-Brooks is one of the UK’s top Crystal Therapists, and an inspirational practitioner and teacher of Reiki-Seichem.

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