Posture can change your whole image

Posture for Good Looks and Good Health

Posture is the position in which you hold your body upright against gravity while standing, sitting, walking or laying down.

Good-posture involves training your body to stand, walk, sit and lie in positions where the least strain is placed on supporting muscles and ligaments.

Your posture transmit to everyone with whom you come in contact, how you value and esteem yourself as a person. Your posture, therefore, can reveal your state of mind, health and self image. Good-posture improves health, increase stamina, and enhances body control.

Additionally, it is amazing to see what big difference this can do for the way you look in your clothes, according to Bev Corke, Grooming Instructor and Image Consultant in an article published in the Daily News of Sunday November 5, 1995.

Common faults usually develop at around the time of puberty when the young adult begins to experience feelings of self consciousness and insecurity based on the many body changes which occur at this time.

Common Posture Faults

Your knees are also pushed back, forcing them into a locked position. Since the knees act as shock absorbers, they should always be slightly flexed. Lordosis makes you appear lazy and careless. It interferes with normal body functions, such as breathing, digestion, circulation of the blood and can cause discomfort during the menstrual period.

Some young women, according to Ms Corke, assume this posture in an effort to show that they are confident and perhaps even sexy. They push their chests up and out, pushing the buttocks back. This creates the curve in the spine. This posture is usually coupled with a walk in which the hips are tossed from side to side like a model modelling on stage.

B. Kyphosis (A round shoulders) The first seven vertebrae, cervical are involved in this problem known as kyphosis. The head is held forward, the shoulders droop and the chest is caved in, and the diaphragm is pushed down unto the abdomen which puts pressure on and can displace the internal organs. This posture is bad for you and throws your body out of its correct alignment.

Young people often assume this posture when they feel they are too tall or when the young woman fells that her breasts are too large or too small.

It is in an apologetic posture, explained Ms Corke, and is often assumed by persons who suffers generally from fellings of insecurity. This posture is common in people living in cold countries who huddle into their winter coats to ward off the cold.

C. Scoliosis (hunch-back) Scoliosis is the peak of confused posture. It is a combination of swayback and hunch-back. Scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the spine.

You can develop scoliosis when over a period of time, you stand with shoulders rounded and your body weight shifted to one leg. This causes one shoulder to droop and the corresponding hip to be pushed up.

This particular fault is of great concern to me because so many young adults stand sloppily in such a manner as to create this problem. Scpliosis confuses the body functions, the impression you make upon others and the way your clothes "don't" fit.

But what are the benefits from practising correct posture in the mannerin which you stand, sit, walk or even sleep

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