Three Simple Ways to Improve Your Posture System

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Your nervous system controls and coordinates all other systems in the body.

The posture system provides the physical framework for all other systems of the body to resist gravity and function within our environment.

The posture system is dynamic with constant micro movements in an effort to stabilize the posture system depending on the signals received from the cranial nerves.

Your brain is dynamic and craves complexity. Your movements are useful to the brain when they are complex and rewarding. Here we can see a “use it or lose it principle.” 

Purpose of the Brain

Your brain’s main purpose is to create refined movement. And yet, we are interacting with our environment less and less over time. When there is a decrease in brain function you have a postural decline. Unfortunately, we are facing a new health epidemic of digital dementia.

Power Poses and Exercise

A power pose is a stance like Superman or Wonder Woman. You are stimulating the front side of your brain. Toward the back you have plug in points of the cranial nerves. You are making changes in your endocrine system and hormones.

When you stand in an open power pose you not only look more confident, you actually ARE more confident. Studies have shown that this posture stance brings about neuroendocrine and behavioral changes due to increased testosterone, decreased cortisol and the feeling of more power.

When you sit slouched over you are getting the opposite. Your cortisol increases because the adrenal gland put you in a fight-or-flight mode. 

Stand and own your position. 

Benefits of Exercise

Exercise for at least 30 minutes per day improves your mood. It also increases tryptophan which is needed to produce serotonin. 

Role of Postural Neurology

The postural neurologist seeks to identify the “origin of distortion” and use brain-based postural correction techniques to improve posture and motor output.

The motor cortex controls voluntary movement on the opposite side of the body. 

The sensory cortex integrates and processes sensory information. When the sensory cortex receives a message it processes what that message means and what to do about it.

What can you do to improve your posture immediately?

1. Take consistent posture breaks. Stand up and do the opposite of what you are doing. Raise your hands. Take your eyes off the device and look at bright natural light in a green space. Take a power stance and smile. In essence, relax in a way that makes sense to your nervous system by extension. 
2. Take a 2 - 3 hour break from technology every day. Use your brain and release your imagination. It’s important to spend time outside. Your brain develops better in that environment. (This is especially important for children)
3. Participate in consistent exercise or movement for 20 - 30 minutes every day. You are stimulating mitochondrial DNA to lengthening telomeres which increases your quality of life. Your body continues to grow and not grow stagnant. Otherwise you lose you connection to the outside world. You don’t have to run a marathon or lift heavy weights. In fact, best results come from High Intensity Interval Training.

Develop these habits and make them non-negotiable activities every day.

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