Week one, pull up top of spine exercises, day one awareness, we will have certain bodily habits which affect posture. Leaning one heads forward, for example, creates strain in the neck and causes pain and discomfort. Thankfully, half of the solution to correct posture related habits is simply to increase one's self awareness. For instance, when you find yourself in an uncomfortable position, you may tell yourself to sit up straight, but your brain or body may lack sufficient knowledge to what that command means. If you don't know what's causing your discomfort, or fully understand how your body should feel when you correct your posture, the only signal you are sending when telling yourself to sit up straight, is that you need to tense the muscles in the neck and back. This will solve the problem rather, it will exacerbate it.

Sit up straight will only begin to prove fruitful once you've learned the key components of that question. At this point, you'll be able to shift your posture automatically and correctly. To get there, you first have to become aware of two essential actions. A, realize when you're leaning your head forward, be learned to correct it. Figure one A. the cervical vertebrae is located at the top of the spine, where the skull sits on top. Notice how the top would connect in between the two years.

This information becomes more important later in this program. Figure one be excessive curvature of the cervical spine. Notice the compression of the vertebral discs in comparison to figure one a. The next time you see a work colleague with their neck collapse forwards towards the computer screen. Picture this the awareness exercise teaches the brain that movement originates from the top of the spine in between the two ears and not at the bottom of the cervical spine. Otherwise known as C seven c finger one C. When the brain thinks you move from C seven, the head and neck lean forward as one unit.

This is significant because the human head weighs between 10 and 15 pounds. Leaning the head forward for long periods of time puts a tremendous amount of strain on the neck because he's trying to hold the head weight out in front of the body. Instead of in line with the spine, which is designed to cushion the full weight of the head down into the body. See figure one a. a comparative example would be positioning the arms straight out in front of you holding a 10 pound weight. For a few minutes. This may be okay, but it's easy to see how over hours, days and weeks this would lead to tension and pain.

Finger one See, notice how the head leans forward from the base of the cervical spine, C seven, and this case the heads way is pulled down in front of the body instead of in line with the spine.