Computer Posture and your neck.
How is your posture right now as you’re sitting and reading this? If you are sitting, where is your face? I mean, is it poking towards the computer screen? Actually, are you poking your neck towards the screen? “Forward head posture” is, in reality, forward neck posture. We tend to poke our necks forward and down; which compresses our spine.
The muscles in our neck are usually working harder than necessary. This is one version of bad computer posture. Another would be sitting up rigidly straight. Better would be to have our necks free, back, and up. Releasing your neck muscles allows your neck to go back and up, as your head rotates forward and up.
Computer Posture becomes general posture.
You might begin to observe that you also poke your neck towards the book you’re reading, the person you’re speaking with, the computer keyboard, your food, someone else’s food… You could notice almost everyone pokes their neck forward as they walk, especially if they’re late. It’s as if they’re projecting themselves into the future. We all do it. The Alexander Technique helps us to become aware of habits like these, and sometimes awareness is self-correcting. But the Alexander Technique is far more than just merely being aware.
If you gently release the excess tension in your neck, while you let your nose tilt slightly downwards, and let the crown of your head move up, you’ll be expanding instead of compressing. This can help you get out of the all too familiar ‘C’ curve. It feels better, and it can change your attitude, your breathing and more.
Mark Josefsberg-Alexander Technique NYC
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