You can't understand juggling, you have to do it!

Juggling is not only fun but also effective brain training

Juggling is a movement art, also known as MUSIC FOR THE EYE. This means: juggling engages almost all senses. When juggling, the brain has to process thinking, acting, and feeling simultaneously, which is why it has such a tremendous effect on the brain. In recent decades, there has been a systematic exploration of the health-promoting and healing effects of juggling. Kinesiologists confirm that juggling, among other things, enlivens and activates the collaboration of both brain hemispheres. Brain researchers from various universities have even found that juggling expands brain cells – in children, adults, and seniors alike. Only through the practice of throwing and catching can one understand juggling – otherwise not Even if one knows all the principles (such as gravity and centrifugal force, rhythm, sensing hands, peripheral vision, relaxed posture, and more), one still cannot do it. To understand what juggling is, one must do it. The instructions from a booklet, a YouTube video, or a juggler must be personalized. This includes experimenting, allowing and making mistakes, learning from failures, persisting, overcoming laziness, bending down repeatedly, and more. Gradually, new connections, vibrations, and linkages form between numerous brain structures. Movements become less frantic, more effortless, and the more effectively balls are thrown and caught, the more muscles, joints, and tendons can relax. Eventually, the balls will fly on their own. And the self no longer controls anything, but observes and marvels at what the hands (the BODY-SELF) achieve fascinatingly. Only then does the feeling of finally understanding what juggling is arise. Juggling engages very different brain and body regions: Both cerebral hemispheres Here, newly learned movement programs are stored, which rush automatically and unconsciously, via the so-called pyramidal tract, to the motor cells. Juggling particularly strengthens the weaker motor hemisphere and ensures a balance between the right and left motor programs. The midbrain Here, immediate perception, observational consciousness, feeling, and rhythm are trained. The reptilian or brainstem Here, fast movement reflexes are controlled, and heart, breathing, and immune reactions are calmed. Juggling promotes the interaction of stress reduction and playful activation (harmonization of vagus nerve and sympathetic reactions). The cerebellum Here, movement coordination occurs in an optimal movement rhythm. Cerebellar functions are synchronized with all movements and shape them "round" and graceful in flow. The cervical spine It is crucial for the alignment of the shoulder girdle and the rest of the spine. Methods that improve alignment (especially the Alexander Technique) are therefore ideal for learning to juggle. Especially the hands, arms, and shoulder girdle move more easily, freely, and effortlessly. The hip joints When the feet bear the entire body weight, the spine aligns tension-free, and the knees are aligned with the toes over the midpoints of the feet, the hip joints can rotate freely. Then, the body's center becomes the center of the body's mobility. Juggling leads to an unconscious sliding into an upright movement structure. Seeing without seeing Juggling trains spatial perception. Knowing where something is without seeing or hearing it. The focus of central vision only follows behind the balls for beginners. Later, the gaze rests more and more frequently and eventually automatically on a point in the distance that is not particularly interesting to the attention. Instead, the brain gives more importance to the peripheral zones of the field of vision. This creates an entirely new quality of perception: blurry peripheral vision that, combined with body and hand touch information, creates clear dynamic images. Learning to throw and catch 3 balls is faster than many believe Juggling or learning to juggle with balls is not only good for the brain and health-promoting but can also be learned faster and easier than many believe. With the help of the freely available online and app-based juggling learning system REHORULI®, especially beginners can learn to juggle with 3 balls in surprisingly short time. The inventor of this juggling learning system is the Munich-based motivator & juggler Stephan Ehlers. His best-selling book "Learn to Juggle with Guaranteed Success" has been published in several languages. With over 45 juggling media (in ten languages), REHORULI® is Europe's largest provider of juggling learning materials.