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A word on posture. Saying “sit with good posture” is really only half the story. It’s a chicken and egg problem. Good posture requires little effort. The skeletal frame hold you up. The body’s muscles simply work to maintain balance, and are really quite relaxed.
I think it’s hard to have true good posture until you know what relaxed muscles feel like. It’s an alien concept to most of us because we are never taught to relax. This is another reason why I like PMR. It teaches you how to relax muscles, and what relaxed muscles feel like. With practice, you begin to notice very quickly if there are tensions in your body throughout the day. When we sit or stand with poor posture, there are always muscles working hard somewhere in your body.
Being aware of, and having control over the muscular tensions in your body not only helps with posture. More importantly, the mind body connection means that stress in the mind causes stress in the body, and vice versa. In a stressful situation, it may be hard to clear the racing thoughts in your mind, but you can more easily relax the tensions in you body. The mind then tends to follow the body’s lead and becomes calmer.
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