Using a tensor ring: where do you hang it?
Around the tap, beside a jug or loose in your hand: the practical ways the tensor ring is used in this tradition, and what it is not.
A ring with no instructions
The tensor ring is the simplest object in our range: a closed ring of copper wire, 4 centimetres across. Which is exactly why the most common question is not what it is, but what you do with it.
In short
- The best-known place is around the tap, with the water running through it.
- You can also set it loose beside a jug or a glass, or hold it in your hand.
- The size follows the Sacred Cubit; that is not an arbitrary number.
- It is not a filter and it replaces no water treatment.
- No power, no maintenance, no parts that wear out.
Around the tap
This is where the ring most often hangs in this tradition. Slide it over the spout so the water runs through it. At 4 centimetres across it fits around almost any standard kitchen tap. If your spout is thicker, measure before ordering, or use it loose.
Loose beside the water
Not every tap suits it, and it does not have to. Set the ring beside a jug, a bottle or a glass of water, or stand the glass inside it. The ring does not need to be attached to anything to do its work in this tradition.
Other places you meet in this corner: around a plant pot, in the hand during meditation, or loose on a desk. There is no prescribed place and no prescribed length of time.
Why 4 centimetres
The size is not a coincidence. It follows the Sacred Cubit, the measure this tradition takes as its base, and that measure sets the length of the wire before it is closed. What the Sacred Cubit is and where it comes from is in Sacred Cubit explained. The ring as we know it comes from Slim Spurling, who made the first one in 1991; who he was and what exactly he claimed is in the story of Slim Spurling.
What it is not
The tensor ring takes nothing out of your water. It is not a filter, not a descaler and not a replacement for a purification system. If you already have a water filter, the ring can simply be used alongside it. We make no health claims about the ring; what may officially be said in the EU about copper is in the eight official EU claims.
Care
Run a dry cloth over it now and then. If limescale builds up, polish it off with lemon and salt and dry it straight away. If the copper darkens by itself, that is normal and nothing needs doing.
The ring is delivered in a branded box with a velvet pouch and a scannable guide. Have a look at the copper tensor ring or browse the full range.
