Learn Origami, Learn Art of Life

Origami boats (Image:Sharon Apted)

Origami is not just the art of paper folding that originated from China (note made ​​in AD by Ts'ai Lun, but many people say that origami originated from Japan). Origami also has many benefits for human life. These benefit that better we look than arguing over who was start the origami.

There are ten benefits of origami, including the establishment of a more perfect motor skills in both hands, an increase of intellectual ability, creative power upgrades, and stimulate balance performance between the left and right brain. Origami can also increase the power of imagination, enhance the skills of focused attention (concentration), increases the ability of memory, develop patience, giving emotional and aesthetic experience, and of course make someone could appreciate the pleasure, satisfaction, and pride his work.

Origami can also improve math skills. In the folding process it must use calculation, for example, when divide the paper into two or more / into several equal parts. After that, when an origami result that finished reopened, it will look symmetrical patterns of fold marks. This helps a person, especially children, in recognizing patterns and concepts of geometric shapes

The benefits of origami are also associated with the development of an individual's understanding of art. Origami allows us to form a paper, which is a two-dimensional objects because it is so thin, becomes three-dimensional form. This is very useful in developing a person's spatial thinking abilities. This could fosters thinking, how something that previously could not be transformed into something, now could, that does not exist into exist. That is the benefits of origami in the formation of the appreciation and artistry.

Origami can also train one's intuition. By folding a paper and through a long process before it can finally create a form, someone become accustomed to seeing a process, understand how something happen. If this continues to be trained, one can very easily understand that something is happening comperhensively, which sometimes can not be seen with the standard understanding.

Shape formed from the origami was not just an inanimate object, but can be assembled into "live" objects. With a little touch, the origami objects can move even float. This is what makes pleasure and happiness which is not just an art of origami paper folding, but in the end we can entertain ourselves with the movement that produced from the final product.

The origami has spread into various parts of the world so this art of folding have a lot of system and names. Not only that, the origami has been widely used to decorate the wedding party so guests can smile and even laugh by the beautiful of the origami.