What Are Stress Balls and Their Benefits
Stress is inevitable, and in the current workaholic environment, corporate employees undergo a lot of pressure. Ranging from sales target to meeting up to the expectation of a critical client, stress walk hand in hand with each of us.
Coping with stress is very vital, else it may lead to many health-related issues such as disturbance in sleeping patterns, high blood pressure and if continues for a prolonged period stress could lead to depression and other medical conditions.
Many working professionals even resort to bad habits like smoking to cope up with daily stress. But such habits could further aggravate other critical health issues like lungs cancer and fatigue.
While many stress-busting remedies are available on the internet such as yoga, etc., one popular time efficient stress relieving remedy is the stress balls.
What are stress balls?
Stress balls are small egg-shaped or round shaped objects filled with impressionable gel, which fits perfectly at the palm of our hand.
Benefits of stress balls:
· Squeezing of the stress balls helps you release tension and end up giving you stress relief. Apart from releasing mental stress, the ball helps in boosting the blood circulation in our human body and is helpful for arthritis as well.
· Stress balls also make ideal meditation tools. One can hold the stress balls in the palm and gently squeeze and release the balls while on the stage of meditation, keeping eyes closed and focusing on a particular object.
· Stress balls come very portable, being of a size that fits in hand one can carry it in a small purpose and pocket. Suppose if you are commuting by a chauffeured vehicle towards an urgent client meeting or by metro and you are panicking unnecessarily. What you can do is place the stress ball in your palm and squeezes it gently or the way you like, believe it or not, your mind will calm down, and stress level will reduce.
The way a stress ball works:
The Stress ball by lowering levels of stress helps increase the quality of life and contributes a lot by enhancing proper sleep. Stress is the major factor relating to bad health conditions so when the stress itself is released many health issues are also resolved. Squeezing of the stress balls helps to turn on the muscles of our hand and wrist similarly releasing the grip allows the muscles to relax. Continues process of tightening the ball and relieving the ball helps to reduce stress.
The ideal remedy for hand injury:
Stress balls are an ideal remedy if you have a problem such as a fracture or a sprain in your hand or wrist due to minor accidental happenings in our day to day life. All one has to do is grip the stress ball as long as you can in your palms and keep it for 5 seconds and finally release it. Continue the procedure for some more time rehabilitate and strengthen your hand.
Conclusion:
The stress balls are an ideal object in not only managing the stress in our day to day life but also are very portable and easy to carry unlike other bulky equipment of exercising. Further apart from health benefits it provides it is a fun object for everyone. Stress balls are even used in blood donation camps where pressing and relaxing the balls ejects blood out of our body into the pipes connected to our wrist and supports the noble cause painlessly and easily.
