Alexander Technique In The Cold
Cold In NYC
It can get pretty cold in New York City, and the Alexander Technique can help; not with the cold, but how we react to the cold. When we’re cold we tend to shorten our spines, though this is usually an unconscious action. We scrunch our necks in an effort to keep warm. It might or might not it keep us warm, but it certainly doesn’t help our neck. When you scrunch your neck you shorten it, so you’re shortening your spine. This is no help for lower back, shoulder or neck pain.
Your neck doesn’t care that you’re cold; it just knows it’s being compressed. When you compress your neck, you’re compressing part of your cervical spine. If you have herniated discs, and a lot of adults do, compressing these discs is detrimental.
One of the first directions of the Alexander Technique is to ‘free your neck’. You do this by simply reducing the excess tension in your neck. Just by letting go of this extra work in your neck helps the whole spine lengthen, increases breathing capacity, makes you taller (or in Alexandrian terms, less short) and gives an overall sense of well being. And as far as cold weather is concerned, don’t be a big shot; take a scarf.
Mark Josefsberg-Alexander Technique NYC
Call Mark@ 269-POSTURE
or 917.709.4648
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I didn’t know that scrunching our neck when we feel cold could harm our spines. Can you tell more about this? This is interesting.
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