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adjusting your posture

and watching other people sit up straight when someone mentions it.

@relaxing

Feb 17, 2024

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If you have bad posture, the best thing you can do is to pay attention to your posture when sitting, standing, and walking.

@GOGING

Dec 7, 2024

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People often compliment me on my posture

First you need to engage your core at all times—this doesn’t mean sucking it in and keeping it tight; it’s more like gently, ever so slightly drawing your belly button up and back towards your spine and breathing through your diagram just enough to keep those muscles activated. Strengthen your core—it protects the spine and gives you the power to keep all of your other muscles engaged! When standing, your head, heart (shoulders and upper chest), hips, and feet should ideally be in alignment. Obviously the same goes for sitting as far as the torso is concerned. People tend to: * have forward neck posture from mouth breathing and being on their phones—pull your head back and keep your chin lifted! (Try yoga for text neck) * slouch and slump in their shoulders—pull the heads of your shoulders back and rotate them outwards; retract your shoulder blades by drawing them back and towards the spine. * tilt and lean their pelvis and hips—your tailbone should be scooping forward and down and your hips should ideally be perpendicular to the floor. Check yourself throughout the day and see if you’re in alignment. It takes active work to have good posture. Your posture-supporting muscles are most likely weak. I would recommend light body weight strength training like Pilates, barre, or yoga and I would also encourage you to do chakra yoga—starting at the root chakra and working your way up. This will help you systematically get into alignment at every chakra which are essentially the posture points I identified above (I love Jen Hilman’s 7-day chakra series). You might want to look into somatic yoga and Pilates and body scan meditations too because you’re probably not very aware of your body. I sit on the front edge of seats whenever I’m not lounging on the couch (deeply engrained habit from playing viola for years). I think this helps because it’s very easy to slouch when you’re leaning on the back of a chair for support rather than using your own muscles to stay upright. There have been times where I’ve regressed and I bought an adjustable posture corrector to help—they’re like tight backpack straps for both shoulders that connect in the back and pull your shoulders back. That’s about all I can say… posture is very important to me because it’s essential for your health and we’ll-being and it makes you appear confident and elegant. hope this helps! 💋

@taterhole

Dec 7, 2024

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Choosing not to fill ur mind With content

i feel like a massive hypocrite writing this, but im gonna be honest.. the past year i've been constantly listening to/watching youtube videos and ig reels in order to fill the silence. just loads and loads of useless information and empty talks. last night i realized that doing so has been keeping me from thinking about stuff, listening to music and in general, being productive. i was filling my head with useless noise so i wouldn't think. it ended up being a comfortable bubble of bullshit that was hard to break out of. today i stopped the video, grabbed my notes of things i want to DO and played some music in the background. felt much better. i might relapse— i have many times, but im tired of being a vertically scrolling thumb (again).

@applesapples22

Aug 16, 2024

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Walking!

i used to ride my bicycle/take public transport all the time, but walking is really good actually! it slows down the wildness of modern life, shows you small things you would otherwise drive past. its all around a good idea if you have time to spare of course. great for calming down, thinking, good for relieving stress, good for meeting new people

@applesapples22

Feb 29, 2024

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ART!

going to the museums in my city, going to events, visiting art schools as a spectator to view their expositions it gives me this.. je ne sais quoi feeling. like, euphoria and inspiration and hope in a weird combined way. thinking about art, talking about art - and by that i mean anything from jewelry to graphic design, paintings, poetry, (short) film and sculptures. just fills me with purpose unlike anything else. im watching my sims be succesful artists and im like.. damn i wanna be that.

@applesapples22

Mar 9, 2024