To those having difficulty with the posture......

Submitted by davemayamom on October 29, 2011 - 12:57pm
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Maybe this has been mentioned on here before, I've been away for awhile! Life has been very busy! Anyway, my tip on getting the posture is to walk leading with your belly button! When I remember this, everything else seems to fall into place. Most of us walk leading with our shoulders (if we are not in posture), so I find this helps to keep me in alignment! One of my friends who is a psychologist who does a lot of alternative healing with energy etc. says when we walk with leading with our belly buttons, we are grounded (1st Chakra) - this is the way we want to be!

Hope this helps someone!

jellybaby83

October 29, 2011 - 3:04pm

Hi davemayamom

I've been worrying about whether I'm doing the posture correctly and this helps me to understand it better! Thanks again!!

Jellybaby

kiko

October 29, 2011 - 4:55pm

Thanks for that...I'm going to be putting it into practice.

Christine

October 29, 2011 - 9:06pm

;) Right on.

Little Bit

October 30, 2011 - 1:04pm

Thank you davemayamom,
I tried walking that way this morning and yes, it does seem to work. I have also noticed something else that I have been meaning to comment on. When I walk or stand with my feet slightly farther apart than usual, that seems to help some too. My old normal way of walking was with my feet so close together that at times I have even hit my ankle with the other foot when making a step. I guess I have done this my whole life. For awhile now I have made an effort to walk with my feet about 6 inches or so apart and it does seem to help. When I am standing doing work for a long period of time, I also try to stand with my feet about a foot or so apart and this too seems to help. I know everyone doesn't walk like I did but maybe there is someone who does that this will help.
Little Bit

louiseds

October 30, 2011 - 7:32pm

I look at it this way, LittleBit

The centres of our hip joints are approximately a foot apart. Intuitively it makes sense for our feet to be the same distance apart.

Clasping the thighs together will just produce tension in our adductor muscles, and move the weight of our body towards the inner arches of our feet. Our feet will thank us for putting our body weight equally over the inner arch (heel to big toe), the outer arch (heel to little toe) and the transverse arch (bases of little toe to big toe).

Feet apart should also produce more even loading on our knee joints.

It also gives us a wider, more stable base, which means we can relax better while standing.

L

Little Bit

October 30, 2011 - 8:11pm

Louise,
The way you explain it makes a lot of sense.
Thank you,
Little Bit

kiko

October 31, 2011 - 4:49am

I was thinking more on this, and I'm probably getting a bit too hippy, but the belly is "technically" closer to the second and third chakras. First chakra is really perineum territory.

Having said that, it still kinda worked when I practised "belly walking" today. Definitely felt very grounding, which is said to be a first chakra thing. A nice way to be.

I always find that my prolapse feels worse when I'm tired, and I can't help thinking there's some energetic connection there. Like our energy dissipates when we're fatigued, or a certain chakra becomes deficient.

Okay, enough hippy talk.