Bad Posture:
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Bad posture is seen as a curse. Has your partner or close friend ever commented on your posture? I guess you weren’t too happy to hear this because it feels like a judgement on your total character. What first impression do you form of a stranger with poor posture? Do you feel you can trust this person? Are they strong, dependable or honest? If someone close to you thinks you have bad posture; what assumptions are other people you come in contact with making?
However, you should not feel in a minority. If you randomly ask one hundred adults about how they feel about their posture, I would bet my house that over seventy-five would say theirs was bad. And almost everyone of one them would make an effort to stand a little straighter when asked.
So What Can You Do
About Bad Posture?
Now here is an interesting observation. We assume that to correct bad posture all we have to do is to stand or sit straighter, or in other words, do something with a bit more effort and all is well. Once we have made this effort we are confident our posture is again right – whilst we remember to do it. Now, surely if we knew what good posture was we would already have it!From this experience can we not deduce that if we have poor posture we are doing something that is causing it? And therefore to correct bad posture we have to stop doing whatever it is that isn’t helping. As a teacher of The Alexander Technique I find that most adults are ‘pulling down’, that is they are tightening muscles they don’t need to be using with the affect that it pulls part of their body towards the ground. Other muscles then need to resist this pull down to keep us upright. When we try to correct our poor posture by ‘doing something’, such as trying to stand straight, we do it by tightening the muscles already struggling against the other muscles pulling down. This leads to even more tension in the body.
Popular exercises to correct poor posture will actually make your problem worse as they re-enforce the poor habit of using too much effort. Your muscles work in a totally integrated way and should not be developed individually in an attempt to correct a problem with the whole body.
Check your body now. Are you pulling yourself down into your chair? Can you get a sense of the chair underneath you and let it push you up. If you think you have poor posture check what you are already doing that is pulling you out of shape. When you can stop doing this your body will be allowed to assume it’s natural, effortless upright posture.
Better still, find an Alexander Technique teacher and let them show you how life can be so much easier. If you cannot find a teacher in your area you might like to try my program - see below.
Correct Bad Posture Without Exercise
Most will assume that to correct bad posture you will need to use exercise. However, would you believe that not one study has ever shown exercise to be an effective way to improve posture!My step-by-step guide will help you to achieve your birthright of an effortless, upright posture by eradicating the poor habits that cause poor posture. There are no exercises involved and my procedures can be used on the train, in your car, at the office or even whilst participating in your sport.
For more information please click here. It is a PDF file so you can download it now and begin right away.
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