From Bad Back to Healthy Back
One of the best ways to rest a bad back and develop a strong, comfortable, healthy back is to lie down often.
While the floor is widely recognised as an ideal place to lie down and rest your back, I believe a hammock is even better. In fact, the only problem with lying in a hammock instead of on the floor is that you won’t want to get up again.
A hammock is good because it encourages you to stop hollowing your lower back.
Many people fear a hammock will give them a bad back. On the contrary, its tendency to curl you up is very healthy. An even slightly hollowed back is bad because it disconnects your chest from it’s natural strong resting place on top of a firm belly.
This disconnection both weakens you and stiffens you. If you re-connect, allowing your chest to rest on your belly, your back is relieved of the need to work to hold you up. Your healthy back, relieved of that unnecessary burden, can now move freely, reserving its strength for when you really need it.
When your back is left free to move like this, your ribs can begin to breathe effortlessly. You can begin to access the enormous, normally unused breathing capacity of your back. Good vocal technique depends on this.
Leaving vocal technique aside for the moment, it’s time to map out the road from your present bad back to the healthy back you could be enjoying.
Map your way to a healthy back: “How Do I Get a Healthy, Smiling Back?”
