What Is Posture And How Does It Affect You?

What"s Posture Got To Do With Anything?

The word ‘posture’ is gathering a following and is becoming more widely used nowadays. People are more aware that they should ‘sit up straight’ and ‘pull those shoulders back’

…But has anyone ever told you how to do it? (With over 600 muscles in your body, it simply isn’t possible to control them consciously and it would be futile to attempt to do so, would it not?)

Now, while posture isn't the be-all and end-all, it is very much foundational to good health.

Like the house that was built on the sand, a body with a compromised posture is paying the price beneath the surface.

As Plato said:

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it."

Learn about the wisdom of the body that built it's house on the rock on Upward Spiral's blog: 'Posture: Pain and it's Prevention' .

Wednesday

Baby Builds Good Posture!

OK, so it's been far longer than I had hoped it would be since my last post...this will change!

If you've been following the goings on from my previous blog, then you'll no doubt remember that I became an uncle for the first time back in February of this year. Here's a page I put up on my website when my nephew was born.

I'm very please to say that the little feller is doing extremely well and is developing as a baby should develop. Interestingly, he's picked up quite a cool little habit that would have many an adult screaming!

You see, an exercise that we often use in The Egoscue Method for posture correction is called Foot Circles and Point/Flexes. It's a bit of a killer and usually causes a grimace at the very least and often nothing short of screams of torture (which I get no pleasure from observing, honest ;>) ).

Here's a video of Foot Circles from the Egoscue website, so you get an idea of what they're about.

Does that look like your kind of fun? Cool, I thought it might...

Now, here's a wee video of nephew number one performing his latest habit. Notice that he's doing (naturally) what many of us scream and moan about?!

This is what we are designed to do from early development right through until old age. We're not designed to stop at, say, our teenage years and then slowly decline...we are designed to do this stuff until the end!


Let me know what you think of the video!

Talk to you soon.

Matt

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