Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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New Year Resolutions
It's that time of year when we may decide to start, stop, renew, change, do more, do less of something or other in our lives with the view to improvement. I've certainly got a few things I want to change. But we needn't wait until the 1st January to do this although the date acts as a useful stimulus.
Whatever we are intending to do though, involves us making choices. To not make these choices would probably result in us carrying on in the same old habitual manner as we have done all last year. Habits come easy, but changing them takes thought and the commitment to follow through on our choice.
One of the most profound choices we could make would be to improve our posture as this can have a dramatic effect on virtually every part of our lives. Our posture can affect how people relate to us, how we feel about ourselves, our external appearance, body language, our co-ordination and how well we perform in sport and how well we can speak in public. It affects how we carry our children, how we sit at the desk and how stressed we feel.
When it comes down to it from a posture point of view, we are probably better placed to help ourselves than any expert we may pay to fix us. Physiologically we have all the necessary functions in place. Our brain is wired to every muscle by the amazing communications network of our nervous system. So if we make a choice to release our neck tension or relax our shoulders, we will have an effect. It may take a few moments and some repeated thought, but we can communicate throughout our body in this way to make positive changes. So too, if we think of our head to go upwards and our back to lengthen, then we're tapping into our inbuilt instinct for natural poise, and we'll regain some of what we had as a young child. It's as simple as that, or not as the case may be, because we may be dealing with long established habits. But how great it feels to be free of them!
When it comes down to it, it's all about choices and we're in the best place to make those choices for ourselves. Happy New Year.
