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For many years I would hear and read people say things like āitās very important to have a strong coreā but I never ~really~ appreciated what anybody meant by that Iām starting to get it. Itās tied up with everything. Fun to experiment with the frame āyou are your psoasā https://t.co/uAlCHpoKGq
Iāve been paying more attention to posture lately- both my own and everybody elseās. I live in an estate with lots of old people, and itās kind of sad to see how many people are chronically hunched over https://t.co/IA0H65TJnp
For contrast, consider: https://t.co/dwxw4Ioaq9
The interesting thing is that you can find people who seem very fit and muscular who somehow still have tells of (what my uninformed ass believes) is bad posture. Look at the neck and shoulders https://t.co/Gg14AXTWnq https://t.co/IBvGGsEnoL
Once you start looking for this you start seeing it everywhere For contrast: (draw a line visually from the center of the pelvis, through the psoas, through the neck and shoulders, through the top of the head) Who do you think is likelier to have back, neck and shoulder pains https://t.co/BzOJeaueMU
Iāve also been thinking about the social causes of bad posture. Standing up fully erect (yeah, yeah) feels a bit āscaryā for me. Iām a very tall guy and I grew up hunching almost as a compensation for that. It *feels* āarrogantā to stand too tall, like Iād be imposing on people
To stand at your full power is to reveal yourself as Superman. Which takes strength. It takes vulnerability. You have to relax your shoulders and guts etc which are chronically contracted to protect you from the world https://t.co/ZcazHFohaT https://t.co/LYHlshFGpU
This clip of Christopher Reeve transforming from Clark Kent into Superman is an amazing example of Alexander Technique and non-doing. Seriously, watch it. He doesn't haul himself up, he floats up to his full height effortlessly. How? https://t.co/zyWcITJnzg 1/
I've talked elsewhere about "raising your voltage" and "becoming a high-voltage person". I think posture is one of the ways that you can enable it. And you probably have to be careful to do it in a nourishing, "non-doing" way. Hard to write about https://t.co/iHHNmKnrHo
Turning up the voltage might be a dangerous thing to do. Itās unsettling. Itās chaotic. Getting āunblockedā in some ways can overwhelm you with feelings - anger, sadness, despair. Lots of literature alludes to this sort of thing. āUnblocking your chakrasā, āharnessing your chiā https://t.co/QbpOqDYqnz
everything is connected https://t.co/ReQThQ0psR
To stand at your full power is to reveal yourself as Superman. Which takes strength. It takes vulnerability. You have to relax your shoulders and guts etc which are chronically contracted to protect you from the world https://t.co/ZcazHFohaT https://t.co/LYHlshFGpU
This clip of Christopher Reeve transforming from Clark Kent into Superman is an amazing example of Alexander Technique and non-doing. Seriously, watch it. He doesn't haul himself up, he floats up to his full height effortlessly. How? https://t.co/zyWcITJnzg 1/
I've talked elsewhere about "raising your voltage" and "becoming a high-voltage person". I think posture is one of the ways that you can enable it. And you probably have to be careful to do it in a nourishing, "non-doing" way. Hard to write about https://t.co/iHHNmKnrHo
Turning up the voltage might be a dangerous thing to do. Itās unsettling. Itās chaotic. Getting āunblockedā in some ways can overwhelm you with feelings - anger, sadness, despair. Lots of literature alludes to this sort of thing. āUnblocking your chakrasā, āharnessing your chiā https://t.co/QbpOqDYqnz
everything is connected https://t.co/ReQThQ0psR
The interesting thing is that you can find people who seem very fit and muscular who somehow still have tells of (what my uninformed ass believes) is bad posture. Look at the neck and shoulders https://t.co/Gg14AXTWnq https://t.co/IBvGGsEnoL
Once you start looking for this you start seeing it everywhere For contrast: (draw a line visually from the center of the pelvis, through the psoas, through the neck and shoulders, through the top of the head) Who do you think is likelier to have back, neck and shoulder pains https://t.co/BzOJeaueMU
Iāve also been thinking about the social causes of bad posture. Standing up fully erect (yeah, yeah) feels a bit āscaryā for me. Iām a very tall guy and I grew up hunching almost as a compensation for that. It *feels* āarrogantā to stand too tall, like Iād be imposing on people
To stand at your full power is to reveal yourself as Superman. Which takes strength. It takes vulnerability. You have to relax your shoulders and guts etc which are chronically contracted to protect you from the world https://t.co/ZcazHFohaT https://t.co/LYHlshFGpU
This clip of Christopher Reeve transforming from Clark Kent into Superman is an amazing example of Alexander Technique and non-doing. Seriously, watch it. He doesn't haul himself up, he floats up to his full height effortlessly. How? https://t.co/zyWcITJnzg 1/
I've talked elsewhere about "raising your voltage" and "becoming a high-voltage person". I think posture is one of the ways that you can enable it. And you probably have to be careful to do it in a nourishing, "non-doing" way. Hard to write about https://t.co/iHHNmKnrHo
Turning up the voltage might be a dangerous thing to do. Itās unsettling. Itās chaotic. Getting āunblockedā in some ways can overwhelm you with feelings - anger, sadness, despair. Lots of literature alludes to this sort of thing. āUnblocking your chakrasā, āharnessing your chiā https://t.co/QbpOqDYqnz
everything is connected https://t.co/ReQThQ0psR
To stand at your full power is to reveal yourself as Superman. Which takes strength. It takes vulnerability. You have to relax your shoulders and guts etc which are chronically contracted to protect you from the world https://t.co/ZcazHFohaT https://t.co/LYHlshFGpU
This clip of Christopher Reeve transforming from Clark Kent into Superman is an amazing example of Alexander Technique and non-doing. Seriously, watch it. He doesn't haul himself up, he floats up to his full height effortlessly. How? https://t.co/zyWcITJnzg 1/
I've talked elsewhere about "raising your voltage" and "becoming a high-voltage person". I think posture is one of the ways that you can enable it. And you probably have to be careful to do it in a nourishing, "non-doing" way. Hard to write about https://t.co/iHHNmKnrHo
Turning up the voltage might be a dangerous thing to do. Itās unsettling. Itās chaotic. Getting āunblockedā in some ways can overwhelm you with feelings - anger, sadness, despair. Lots of literature alludes to this sort of thing. āUnblocking your chakrasā, āharnessing your chiā https://t.co/QbpOqDYqnz
everything is connected https://t.co/ReQThQ0psR