posture and more posture

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The Posture Theory by MA Banfield is an interesting read.
His website is users.chariot.net.au/~posture/.
The author is an Aussie. His book is huge and contains a plethora of information of posture. He presents posture as the possible "physical basis for hypochondria". It certainly presents a wealth of information and food for thought. He does not cover prolapse per se so I emailed him to let him know about WW.

His website is massive tho awkward. His forte is not webpage design. I borrowed his book from the library and found it contained so much historical information on the role that posture has played in the health of people over many generations. He delves into the reasons why some of our most famous people had health issues based on posture.

Some of his ideas are controversial, maverick. However, WW is no stranger to controversy and criticism.

Since I developed a prolapse, I have come to understand in a much bigger light the role that posture plays in relation to many health issues. I am grateful for my prolapse.

I feel concern for our society that is so focused on technologies which often involve sitting in front of little screens inside out of the sunlight. I see our medical system avoiding or neglecting looking at posture as a source of health problems. Drugs, referrals to specialist and surgery are commonplace.

Prolapse, when it happens, shocks us, forces us to take notice. But it is a starting point. Posture has a profound influence on so many aspects of health/pain/tiredness even depression.

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So true, Gardengirl. Moreover, as I put together this book on the hip joints, once again I come face to face with the fact that there is a medical conspiracy against posture. I have read the most outlandish things recently from men whose work I have highly respected. Actually, posture is on the hot seat in the medical community right now, because it can no longer be ignored. The response, however, is vehement denial that there can be any one "good" posture. The most highly educated and esteemed orthopedists talk about a full lumbar curvature as if it could cause disability and death!!! It is beyond laughable, although I don't know quite what to make of it all. It's almost as if the engineering mindset (rational, linear, male) cannot accept that a curved column can be stronger than a vertically stacked one. It is some kind of mental block that is emotional and psychological rather than logical. To be witness to it takes my breath away!

Posture is a pulling-into my Being. It is so very deep, so very healing. I feel my Life energy, or Chi, can only fully flow when I'm in this One tension-compression, human shape. Tell me what other way feels like this and I will try it!! How else do I hold my body so that my voice box is completely relaxed, my lungs fully expanded, my spine calm and alert, and my internal organs unconstricted?

Yes, I live at the edge of the Village and am quite comfortable with controversy.

Nice to hear from you!

Christine