Creative Sitting: How to improve flexibility AND eliminate chronic pain!
There shouldn’t be any doubt nowadays that prolonged bouts of sitting just aint good for you. As our culture becomes increasingly sedentary, we spend more time in chairs. The toll that chair sitting takes can include chronic joint pain, fatigue, poor breathing patterns, disc herniations, and poor posture.
The solution…
Floor sitting!
Abandon your chair and come down to the floor. Philip Beach, author of Muscles&Meridians, mentions this in his book and i think it is an excellent solution to combat the issues associated with prolonged sitting. Grab your laptop, put it on an ottoman or chair and plop down to watch this video on floor sitting and the benefits therein:
Here are a couple of postures you can incorporate into your floor sitting practice, but feel free to come up with your own and trust your instincts when it comes to which position is best for you.
Lord of the Fishes (without the spinal twist)
Diva Pose
Hero’s Pose
Butterfly Pose
You are only limited by your imagination here in regards to the number of postures you can incorporate. Post your own ideas to my blog and join in the floor sitting revolution!
Pain (an unpleasant sense of discomfort) that persists or progresses over a long period of time. In contrast to acute pain that arises suddenly in response to a specific injury and is usually treatable, chronic pain persists over time and is often resistant to medical treatments.
Judith Delgado
Medical-rights.com
Judith,
Thanks?
-Charlie