I just taught the first session of a six-week class the other evening.
I started the class by asking each of the students to write down their answer to the question: What is good posture?
You could do this, too.
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I just taught the first session of a six-week class the other evening.
I started the class by asking each of the students to write down their answer to the question: What is good posture?
You could do this, too.
“Good posture is spready instead of squished,” is the sage advice of my colleague Lindsay Newitter’s 9-year-old daughter.
The 9-year-old’s quote was part of an article on stress, posture and the Alexander Technique that appeared in the New York Times last August.
How do you think of good posture? Often we think of an optimal shape or position we need to get into instead of a quality, such as a quality of being more “spready”, to quote my colleague’s daughter again.
But how do you achieve a more “spready” quality to your posture? Continue reading “The Space Between”
Attitude is such an interesting word. Continue reading “Attitude”
You know the old adage: you are what you eat.
Well, add to that: you are what you repeatedly do.
When you look at someone’s posture, you are in part seeing what they have repeatedly done over and over and over again. Continue reading “You Are What You Do”
In her 2007 TED talk author Isabel Allende recounts a TV interview with Sofia Loren. When the interviewer had asked Sofia: “How could you look so good?” Sofia had replied: “Posture! My back is always straight. And I don’t make old people noises.”
You know that eating a healthy diet and getting adequate exercise are the two primary areas where you can make a positive impact on your health and well-being.
But what’s missing here? Continue reading “The Secret to Aging Gracefully”