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Only genuine good posture is easy

Most “good posture” is fake
woman sitting with stiffly ‘good’ posture

Many people think this kind of starchy position is good posture.

It isn’t. Can you see how this woman is sitting like she’s got a rod up her back? If she stays in that stiff posture, she’s soon going to find she can’t move, can’t see, can’t think. Her back will become really stiff and painful. In fact, it probably already is.

Good posture is easy

Good posture is so much easier than this. You just have to learn the difference between being upright and being stiff.

Once you learn how to sit with easy, comfortable good posture, you can do it all day and be full of energy in the evening too. It becomes so much easier than slumping or slouching.

Best of all, you can thumb your nose at stiff “good posture”. These articles will show you how.

If you don’t know where to start, email me. Tell me what’s happening for you at the moment and I’ll point you in the right direction.

Posture articles

How your hips are like a bracelet
How to flatten your belly by letting it spread
How opening your back out like a fan lets you breathe
Now do you see why you should never pull your shoulders back?
Why opening out like a fan gives you broad shoulders
Should your bottom wiggle when you walk?
Why not finding your sitting bones makes you slump
Choosing an office chair for working at your computer
Running the Exercise Gauntlet 1: The Scapular Wall Slide
Why you should avoid memory foam mattresses
How letting your arms be heavy makes them light
How to cook without crumpling
Head forwards, the antidote to mind wandering
Want to be tall? Then stop lifting your head
Why your belly will never be right until it breathes
Break the log-jam that stunts your Alexander Technique progress
Strengthen your pelvic floor without exercises
Get a flat tummy by letting it all hang out
How to beat the taboo and stand tall
Why you can’t stand straight until you come up out of your legs
How to avoid RSI from your mouse and keyboard
How to survive a long car drive
Are you afraid to enjoy sitting in your easy chair?
How to fix your car seat so you don't get a painful stiff back
Three basic things you need to know about posture
How the Alexander Technique Makes Sense of Idiopathic Scoliosis
Leaning backwards as an example of debauched kinaesthesia
How to ease the pain in your shoulder (and the pain in your neck too)
Why you should never try to keep your back straight
The keys to running well and enjoying it
Do gait-correcting MBT shoes work?
Why Gait Analysis Requires the Alexander Technique
Why your good posture is bed-ridden — and how to help it get it’s strength back
Bad Back Chairs: Why ergonomic chairs only give you a bad back
The easy way to turn your head
Good neck posture made easy: move your head instead of your neck
How to free your neck and lose your slump

Seven articles to help you straighten out anything from a tiny stoop to a full-blown hunchback

  1. How to straighten a hunchback, part 1: introduction
  2. Getting rid of a hunchback, part 2: the other five steps
  3. Getting rid of a hunchback, part 3: swing your legs from your hip joints
  4. Getting rid of a hunchback, part 4: stop leaning backwards from your waist or hips
  5. Getting rid of a hunchback, part 5: stop holding your chest up: rest your chest on your belly
  6. Getting rid of a hunchback, part 6: why you should always breathe with your back
  7. Why pulling your shoulders back doesn’t work

Four Older Posture articles

  1. Good posture is less effort than slumping
  2. Bad Posture Correction: The truth about posture
  3. Posture Problems: Four reasons for NOT sitting up
  4. Alexander Technique Posture: Posture that works

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