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!
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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