Bouncing/rebounding on a quality mini trampoline/rebounder can be very beneficial if done correctly on a quality trampoline unit.
Bouncing on a quality rebound device provides a myriad of significant health benefits (as expounded in a NASA Study).
It's a way of compressing tissues (which pumps fluid and blood plasma proteins out of the interstitial spaces with each compression) without adding negative stress on the joints.
It conditions and tones all the cells of your body by generating a positive form of stress which each cell adapts to by becoming stronger, and it also massages the millions of one-way check-valves that line the lymphatic vessels (these prevent lymph fluid from flowing backward thus maintaining one-way circulation) to increase lymph circulation.
This happens as a result of the pressure generated below the valves at the top of every bounce, causing the valves to open and propelling lymph fluid forward.
In short: lymph is pumped out of the tissue spaces at the bottom of the bounce and is propelled forward at the top of the bounce.
This activity is amongst the very best ways to systemically improve lymph flow, second only to deep diaphragmatic breathing, the latter being the primary lymphatic “pump,” if you will, and also the single most effective way of activating the lymphatic system throughout the entire body with every deep breath taken. The benefits are even greater when proper rebounding is combined with deep breathing.
The secret to rebounding is that it can be done as a method of exercise or for healing purposes, the latter having a very distinctive process and is what will be focused on below.
Rebounding for Healing
When rebounding for healing purposes, the key is to generate and build energy in the body. If this is carried out correctly, you'll be able to bounce for hours and hours at varying intervals of low and high exertion without getting tired and without experiencing physical fatigue. Also, at the end of the session, you should have more energy in the body than when you first started the session.
Every session is initiated with a foundational 30-minute (or longer if desired) bouncing that's done by gently bouncing up and down WITHOUT the feet leaving the mat. If you’re very toxic or sensitive, you may have to gradually build up to 30 minutes and beyond.
When exercising on a rebounder, you only get the benefits produced from compressing and relaxing the tissues and increasing lymph flow – which are great benefits of course – but you create fatigue in the body at the same time, which is lost energy that could’ve been used for healing. Added stress on the adrenal glands is also produced which lowers dopamine and acetylcholine neurotransmitters (necessary for elimination and also filtration through the kidneys) and increases your adrenalins.
When using it for healing, however, which is a process Dr. C. Samuel West, D.N, N.D. (1932-2004) called “aerobic lymphasizing,” a process that always begins with the 30-minute foundational bioelectric gentle bounce for health – jumping on the trampoline without the feet leaving the mat as outlined earlier – the goal is to generate and build energy in the body.
The energy created can then be mentally directed into the endocrine glands, organs, and other specific parts of the body for pain relief and to cause regeneration to take place through various sequences and techniques executed during the foundational 30-minute or longer sessions.
Once the foundation is in place, you then optionally proceed to follow a complete routine of alternating higher and lower-intensity bouncing methods to strengthen and tighten various parts of the body. Deep breathing and powerful affirmations are a part of the entire program.
If done right, you notice that despite having an increased heart rate, perspiring, and moving your body vigorously for one or several hours straight, you’ll have more energy at the end of the session than you did at the beginning.
As Dr. West put it in his book, ‘The Golden Seven Plus One‘, “If you cause stress or fatigue [in your body], you’re exercising, not lymphasizing.” It's the exercising aspect of rebounding that Dr. Morse doesn’t recommend if you aren’t filtering sediment via the kidneys first, due to the decreased neurotransmitter output necessary for facilitating proper elimination.
If we look at Dr. West’s work, he was likely the first person to discover the real healing power of rebounding, while everyone else were only focusing on what rebounding did for the lymphatic system. The first time he saw a person bouncing on a mini trampoline, a theory shot through his mind and it was as follows:
There are magnetic fields going around the earth from north to south. In electrical engineering, it's understood that if you constantly rotate an armature in a magnetic field, it converts mechanical energy into electrical energy (the energy produced by turning the armature in the magnetic field).
So, Dr. West’s idea was that the body would act like the armature when bouncing up and down through the magnetic fields of the earth, which would convert the mechanical energy into bioelectric energy, and this energy could then be used as one of several ways to magnify the thought wave to mentally direct the energy into the endocrine glands, organs and specific parts of the body to relieve pain and cause healing, with certain techniques taught in his book and through the Applied Lymphology Course taught through the International Academy of Lymphology he founded.
An important thing to consider is using a quality rebounder, as they'll provide a more effortless bounce, meaning that it takes less exertion for the body to make the jump.
Poor quality trampolines, most mattresses, or worse yet, jumping on the floor/hard surface, will make for what is called a “dead bounce,” where your body is doing most or all of the work when jumping.
This takes tremendous energy away from the body and also causes a level of stress on your joints that most of us aren’t conditioned to handle long-term.
Now, if energy is generated through the bioelectric gentle bounce for health, but is spent to compensate for the added exertion efforts of jumping on a hard or “dead bounce” surface (poor quality trampolines included), then you don’t get much benefit from it.
“To know how to use a Lymphasizer [rebounder] properly, you must know what to look for when you do it. It took me over five years to recognize it. The secret of lymphasizing is endurance. Endurance is hard to recognize because it happens so gradually that you take it for granted. Therefore, let endurance, without causing negative stress such as pain or fatigue at any step in this lymphasizing program, be the key to your progress. The secret to endurance is: ‘How long can you do it, and keep your body feeling like you’re sitting in a chair.’ This is contrary to almost every other physical fitness program you have ever heard about. Most of them force you to go to the point of stress. Therefore, people have been conditioned to think, ‘If I don’t feel any bad effects, it isn’t doing me any good.'” ~ Dr. C. Samuel West, D.N., N.D., from ‘The Golden Seven Plus One’ (p. 155)
To properly learn the aerobic lymphasizing program and much more, we recommend reading Dr. West’s book, The Golden Seven Plus One.
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