Relaxing in China

Written By Daniel Allen on January 23, 2007 at 6:46 am | In uncategorized

Traditional relaxing methods find their way in modern society
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China is known for its rich history; the knowledge of traditional chinese medicine goes back in time for thousands of years and is still gaining popularity in the western world.
With Kung fu, taichi and qigong, Chinese found a way to create balance between body and mind.
Nowadays, China is known for its rapid development; especially in the big cities, people are keeping up to earn money and status. The consequences are: more stress and less time to exercise and maintain the spiritual balance.
Cases

Spa with garra rufa fish treatment

Hainan is a popular beach-holiday destination in the south of China. Chinese people go there for holidays or government/corporate meetings.
The Spa resorts in Hainan offer a ‘Doctor Fish’ treatment, or garra rufa fish.
The fish live and breed in outdoor pools of some spas, where they feed on the skin of patients with psoriasis. Theyt only consume the affected and dead areas of the skin, leaving the healthy skin to grow, with the outdoor location of the treatment beneficial effects. The spas are not meant as a treatment option, only as a temporary cure for symptoms.

Breeze Eye Massager

Based on the theory of channel acupuncture in Chinese medicine, the Breeze Eye Massager generates multiple frequency micro-currents, which stimulate important acupuncture points in the eye and brain. It stimulates capillary vessels, as well as cells in both the eye and brain. This in turn accelerates the microcirculation of the blood and increases the oxygen supply. Some of the benefits of this treatment include reduction in wrinkles around the eyes and removal of eye bags and black eyes. As well as eliminating eyestrain, it can both prevent and cure mild myopia by preventing the axis oculi from stretching and distorting. Many people also report that it has helped to cure insomnia when used for 15 minutes at bedtime.

Transportation

Nowadays, big cities like Beijing and Shanghai are overwhelmed with screens.
Most of the taxi’s and busses are equipped with tv screens.
Aigo sponsored Chinamation corp, produces mp4’s format with relaxing animations, which can be played on the screen for the passengers on the backseat. The animations are mainly traditional stories with can help to relax from a busy day at work, or to make the traffic congestion more bearable.

Foot Massage

Tianheliangzi is a fitness company specialized in foot fitness massage and combining general and partly massage. The company continues a heritage of Chinese traditional over two thousand years of foot massage theories and practice. Based on the theories of Chinese traditional channel collateral therapy and according to the needs of modern life; they have developed some new massage techniques which upgrade massage from relaxation to a green health building techniques combining health care, medical diagnosis and treatment as well as a perfect annotation of the ancient Chinese medicine philosophy.
Foot massage salons like tianheliangzi, are popular locations for business purposes. You can book a private room with flatscreens and get a nice massage, while having an informal meeting.

Trend impact

Sixty percent of China’s white-collar workers are suffering from stress in the work and home lives, a survey commissioned by the Beijing committee of the Communist Youth League shows.
The three most frequently cited causes of stress were “overwork”, “lack of time” and “family problems”.
The constantly intensifying pressure of an increasing competitive society has gradually become a widely-discussed concern in China as the country’s economic growth continues apace.
The younger generation is especially obsessed with the pressures of study, job-hunting, work, livelihood and emotional problems.”
A growing proportion of the population were suffering mental health problems
Links

http://www.thlz.com.cn/gsgk/gsjs.html
http://www.a798.com/
http://www.breezeeye.com/