Posturegenics

What’s So Special and Important About Posture?

In our society, “Posture” is not perceived as a topic that has great importance or merit. Your mother always told you to ‘sit up straight’ and not to ‘slouch’. But that was the end of the topic. There wasn’t any ‘how to’ or ‘why’ other then ‘you look bad’.

Of course you can hear it being mentioned in discussions of yoga practices or the way ballroom dancers hold themselves erect, or sometimes in golf lessons. Now those pursuits are important to the people pursuing them, but as a common thought in the community at large it doesn’t even get on the radar of awareness. It is off the radar screen for most people to think that posture is anything more than standing rigidly or artificially or affectedly. And it is certainly not a matter of importance when there is a whole list of daily things to do. Most people couldn’t be bothered with adding another thing to do, to think about standing or moving better is of such a low priority.

Combine that with the fact that our society is based on bio-chemical solutions to health and pain and depression. Frankly, for most of our problems we reach for a pill bottle. Physical and/or emotional pain; dysfunctions in our bodies; performance enhancers on the athletic field or in the bedroom we as a society look to chemical solutions.

Of course, we have help in making those decisions. There is a multi-billion dollar industry that has positioned itself as the go-to source for all our problems, the pharmaceutical industry. It spends 12 billion dollars a year in advertising that chemical solutions to health problems are good for you.

There is no nation-wide opinion source or large market consciousness aware of the fact that the position of your body to gravity can have profound effect in changing so many disrelationships we experience as pain or loss of function. And yet it is absolutely true. Now, I’m not saying that sitting as your mother wanted you is going to cure cancer or the common cold but your orientation to gravity has profound consequences to your health and wellbeing.

So the purpose of this blog is to promote interest and awareness in our relationship to gravity commonly referred to as your “Posture”. It can be as simple as sitting up straight (You are right again, Mother). It can be as profound as solving chronic pain conditions of decades-long duration. When it is called “Bio-mechanics” it can solved efficiency problems and injuries for the athlete. It is also a doorway to connectedness with spiritual paths. (All of these are topics for subsequent blogs).

I am looking to find an audience who is searching for answers to questions on chronic pain, athletic improvement, and general seekers who want more in and out of their life experience.

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