Postulate Better Posture

This practice is for everyone and anyone curious enough to want to improve their posture for better long-term health. As you listen and participate, you will find practices and techniques, coaching, and science-backed benefits for your body and mind intended to create new habits that will assist you on your journey to better posture.

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Transcript

Welcome.

Thank you for allowing me to participate with you in your journey to improve your posture.

Make yourself comfortable by sitting still or laying down.

Close your eyes.

Allow the muscles in your face and in your neck and your shoulders to drop.

Help relax your body and mind by just listening to your breathing.

Breathe very deeply and very slowly.

Quiet your mind of any questions,

Responsibilities,

Thoughts,

And desires by just breathing deeply,

By staying relaxed.

And still.

Take a moment and appreciate yourself for making the time to listen to this meditation.

Take a deep breath in and out.

Let's begin.

Your posture is the latent bridge between today and long-term health.

Optimizing and harmonizing your postural habits while sitting,

Standing,

Laying down,

Walking or running,

And transitioning between these postural states will improve your physical,

Mental,

And emotional long-term state of being.

These habits can be learned and earned to help minimize the natural wear on your joints in your neck,

Your mid and lower back,

As well as your hips,

Knees,

And ankles.

These habits can be practiced and prioritized into reflex to help direct physical effort onto the muscles surrounding these areas in order to maximize blood and lymph flow throughout your body so that nutrients and waste can circulate more efficiently.

These habits can be standardized and realized in order to help minimize the pressure on your digestive and respiratory organs so that they function better.

Over time,

The benefits from these habits will compound for you by helping to reduce headaches,

Making you appear taller,

And help improve your self-confidence.

Take a deep breath in and out.

Ask yourself,

Are there people I can study and model who have better posture than I do?

And ask yourself,

What inspiring human examples embody consistent,

Healthy posture?

If you haven't already,

Some examples to picture are a ballerina dancer's frame.

When performing,

A ballerina's frame exists to hold themselves up and even lift others up or be lifted by someone else.

How about a soldier standing at attention or marching for their commanding officers?

Their heads and necks sit directly over their spine.

Perhaps a martial artist's stance before and after bowing to their opponent.

A karate instructor in the horse stance tends to keep his or her hips and lower back protected by tightening the muscles around their stomach and lower back.

Even Olympic sprinters spread their postural balance efficiently with every foot strike.

During a 100 meter dash,

Runners maintain dynamic rhythm when they compete and when they train.

Yet their core posture does not change until they reach the finish line.

Take a deep breath in and out.

Let's get curious.

Why do these athletes and others like them employ a strict adherence to healthy posture?

They are taught to adopt these practices because there exists a strong belief within their areas of expertise simply that healthy,

Self-supporting posture is necessary to excel in their ambitions.

What if you took advantage of this practice by having it applied directly to you?

Take a deep breath in and out.

Imagine yourself as one of these strong,

Healthy posture athletes or another of your choosing.

Which one did you choose?

Let this image be the representation of your mental and postural self from which you cue and create your healthy posture.

Imagine your sport or event that you are training for is the peak performance of daily life with the goal to live well for as long as possible.

Take another deep breath in and out.

Let's shift our focus to developing simple,

Helpful postural habits.

When you're sitting,

Sit taller and breathe deeply.

When you're standing,

Stand taller and breathe deeply.

When you're transitioning between sitting and standing,

Stay tall,

Stay strong and breathe deeply like the athlete you chose to model.

There's no limit on how often you can cue your self-awareness of posture.

As you know,

The more you remind yourself to ameliorate your posture,

The more sense it makes.

Take a deep breath in and as you exhale,

Imagine your spine is getting longer.

And again,

Breathe in,

Exhale slowly and picture your spine is making you taller.

And again,

Breathe in,

Exhale slowly and conjure your posture matching the poise of your chosen athlete.

Allow yourself to smile as you welcome this new habit into your life.

You can practice this anywhere,

At any time.

No matter how busy or distracted you may be,

You can always find time to breathe deeply and let this feeling of healthy posture occur on its own.

No doubt as you know,

When you are still as minutes elapse,

Leading to an hour without a break,

Your posture can change.

Whether you are sitting at your desk for what feels like hours or in a meeting,

Feeling as though you can't get away,

Or outside physically working when you'd rather be relaxing.

You can always model the posture of an athlete and breathe deeply as you imagine your spine lengthening on the exhalation.

Take a deep breath in and exhale slow while you sit or stand as tall as you can comfortably.

There are basic postural principles to consider for when you are physically still and when you are physically in motion.

First,

For when you are relatively still,

Like waiting in line,

Or driving,

Or reading in bed,

Consider moderately tightening the muscles of your stomach and lower back for as long as you can while you breathe deeply.

Try it now and challenge yourself to keep these core muscles engaged for the rest of this meditation.

Second,

For when you are in motion,

Like walking,

Running,

Or transitioning from standing to sitting,

Or vice versa,

Focus on aiming your gaze level with the horizon,

Or an imaginary horizon,

With your chin up and shoulders back for as long as you can feel comfortable.

So if you are looking down at your phone,

Hold your phone higher up to raise your gaze.

If you are looking at another screen at home,

Or at work,

Or at a movie theater,

Adjust the screen or where you sit to align your gaze with an imaginary horizon,

With your chin up and shoulders back for as long as you feel comfortable.

Feel free to pause this meditation at any time and experiment with this simple technique.

Take a deep breath in and as you exhale,

Slowly.

Sit or stand as tall as you can comfortably.

Decide that from the moment you wake every morning,

That will be the moment you begin to prepare your body's healthy posture for the day by practicing the principles covered in this meditation.

I invite you to repeat after me.

I promise to take my posture seriously to help improve my health and well-being.

I decide to take subtle and daily actions towards caring for my posture to help sustain my health and well-being.

If you replicate these actions daily,

It will become an instinctive habit after six months.

Please take a moment to appreciate and thank yourself for the discipline you've shown throughout this meditation.

Take all the time you need to just breathe and remember,

You can return to this meditation whenever you please.

Remember that the more you practice this meditation,

The faster and easier it will work for you.

Thank you for taking the time to begin learning how to postulate better posture.

And when you're ready,

Slowly open your eyes and let me leave you with these words.

It's a great day to be alive.

Reviews

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Lovely, inspiring meditation. Just what I needed today. Thank you and Namaste 🙏🏽

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I really enjoyed the session. Will come back to it. Thank you. 🙏

Fantastic meditation. Loved every moment. Thank you.

Amazing, thank you so much! I will include this into my regular practice now! Namaste! 🌺🙏🌌🧜‍♀️

Thank you! What an insightful and effective approach! I loved it and will use it with deep gratitude.