Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Posture affects your emotions
Having specialists who deal with physical problems and other specialists who are focused on mental and emotional issues invites us to believe that our brain and body can function separately. Physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths on the one hand and psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and relationship counsellors on the other divide the indivisible; our integrated and inseparable body and mind gets split. Ouch.
Try putting yourself into an awful slouch for a moment...really collapse your posture and then say " I am Happy!" Does it ring with truth? Almost certainly not. Now bring yourself up tall, relax your shoulders and look out at the world and say "I'm sad!" That doesn't work either, does it?
We all know that our emotions can affect our facial expression, it has also been proved by two famous specialists in California , that facial expressions can actually drive emotions. So if a person frowns, they will feel the associated emotion, and a reinforcing cycle can begin.
One of the best ways of improving how you feel about yourself and the world around you is to enhance your posture. It will make you feel better. Look up and out at the world rather than down. Free your neck by thinking it loose on the top of your spine at a point between your ears. Let your nose drop a few millimetres to help release tensions. Smile. Smiling has a physiological effect by creating endorphins so lifts your mood. They are great things to give away as the more you give, the more you'll get back from others. We never run out of smiles.
Look up, think up and have a good day.
