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Posture Perfect

11/13/2013

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Posture Perfect

Once while sitting on a plane, the person beside me asked if I was a dancer. “No why”? I asked incredulously (I have 2 left feet!) “Because you sit so tall”, they responded.

Like many of us, I had low self esteem as a teenager. One day, a friend commented that there was something different about me; he said when I walked I looked confident. Maybe I was having a good day, maybe just been asked on a date or gotten a job. Whatever it was, instead of my typical head down low, I held my head up. Those words changed me.

Some of the benefits of good posture include:
- Increases blood flow to heart and organs
- Increases oxygen to lungs improving our quality of breath and therefore our quality of life
- Increases circulation to arms and hands, helping to prevent CTS and other repetitive stress injuries
- improves digestion/elimination
- all central Chakras are open, helping to keep them clear
- opens chest and heart, head is held high, makes us look and feel more confident, even when we’re not
- can be contagious

Start your day sitting or standing. As you breath in, gently lift the shoulders, draw them back and exhale them down, do 3x – this can help to “set” your posture for the day.

When sitting and driving, tilt pelvis forward, arching lower back slightly to feel your sitting bones. Lengthen your spine, top of head reaching
upwards, and draw your shoulders back. This may feel uncomfortable at first especially if you are used to rounding forward. But be patient - in time it will become more uncomfortable not to do it!



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The Blogger

11/13/2013

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Not long ago, my husband became a blogger. (The word “blog”, still sounds silly to me, even as I write my very own blog).

We used to be avid movie-goers; that is, until we had kids. Without cable in our home, we feel lucky if we can squeeze in half a movie from Netflix uninterrupted. So to keep up with his love of film, my man created a blog about movies. Sort of. 

Since we can’t get to the theater as often as we’d like, he blogs about the trailer of a movie. In the spirit of Max Beerbohm, he views the trailer, decides if it’s worth seeing the movie, then writes about it. "....judging a movie by its trailer", as he puts it.

So, if you’re looking for witty reading material, check it out at
http://beerbohmtastic.blogspot.ca/ 
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