Posturegenics

People weaponize their own postures and create ‘center of mass’ destruction.

Poor alignment is fixable; if left uncorrected to gravity posture is weaponized.  People misuse body position. Their own posture becomes a self-pointed weapon that they use against themselves, leading to wear and tear, degeneration and pain. The centers of mass of the head, rib cage and pelvis should line up over the feet. When they don’t line up efficiently you’ve created ‘centers of mass’ destruction. They turn their position, their posture, into a gun pointed directly at themselves.

Gravity is immutable; it is always vertical. We are malleable; we respond to stress and strain. If we give in to gravity and try to find a slumped position that is comfortable, expedient, we have taken the bait in the trap that will shorten our functional active life. The sprung trap of slumping and slouching rapidly ages our frame, causing inflammation and degeneration. We look like shuffling great-grandparents in posture if not in actual years.

You are actively resolving the vertical equation or you are not. Solving the vertical equation is a life-long study and goal. Living in harmony with gravity is not eliminating gravity (unless you can levitate). It is finding balance and support, narrowing your exposure to gravity as much as possible so that you go into stealth mode to gravity. You effectively disappear vertically. Think of the ground under your feet as a dart board. You want to be the dart that is stuck in the middle of the bull’s eye. (Tip, shaft and flight straight out of the board)

I am not saying that good posture is a rigid, military, affected posture. You are not a tree or a flagpole. The ability to sit, stand, bend, push, pull, move has great versatility and adaptability built into it. The problem is not one of moving away from vertical. Problems arise when we don’t return to vertical balanced posture. If we stay fixed in postures that define our occupations, thought processes, emotional states or history of injury we point the gun and pull the trigger of our own early and far too rapid deterioration.

People age far too rapidly. Stress, toxicity and inflammation are in epidemic proportions. They all rapidly age us, far more rapidly than the calendar time we have behind us. One of the easiest and most powerful things over which we have immediate and total control is posture.

Reducing our gravitational footprint (the surface area of our body that is exposed to gravity) will immediately and effectively decrease physical stress, lower toxic pressure on joints and muscles and reduce the inflammatory process brought on by poor body mechanics.

1. There are simple and easy steps to take to make living in your body an effortless and elegant and pain-free experience.
   1. Be aware of how you sit stand and move. Feel where weight is pressured on your muscles and joints. You don’t have to wait for the signals to get painful. You body is talking to you right now.
   2. Endurance posture always tightens low backs, turns off abdominal muscles, leans the rib cage backward, rounds the shoulders, and juts the head forward. (I can almost guarantee that you are sitting in that posture as you read this. I struggle against the same tendencies as I write this. It is a common postural problem.)
   3. Get up and move around a lot (a lot more than you normally do) at least once every half hour. It is so beneficial for your concentration and focus to say nothing about how good it is for your body. Slowly, twist side to side, bend side to side, lean back slightly, lean forward slowly. If it’s tight, slowly stretch it out – no forcing. If it’s painful, go see a health professional, massage therapist, doctor of chiropractic, physical therapist, or medical doctor who understands muscles and won’t toss pain pills at you (a chemical solution for a mechanical problem).
   4. Learn your five major anti-gravity muscle groups. (They are here in another page) and keep them active.
   5. Know your six major endurance muscle groups and stretch them out.
   6. Keep coming back to this site to learn about the incredible window into human performance and activity that posture is. Tell your friends to come and read too!