Okinawa🌺Pilates➕α｜Tips for beautiful posture to look 10 years younger💡② Navel

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I will explain the details of the article from the other day.
Click here for the previous article↓

Today, I will explain point ②.

Tips for creating good posture

② Push your navel toward your spine

When straightening your spine, be careful⚠️ not to arch your lower back.

To help with this, try to be conscious of pulling your navel toward your spine.

Imagine you are zipping up a pair of jeans that are two inches too small.

You would pull your navel in, right?

Like that,keep your lower abdomen pulled in while you go about your day.

If you don't know how to do it,try standing up and stretching your back.Doesn't your lower abdomen pull in naturally?

Just by doing that,you are using your core muscles,whichact like a corset to protect your lower back.

However, there is one thing to be careful about.

It is not okay for the bottom of your ribcage to flare out wide.

You should not pull your stomach in by hollowing out your ribs. That is an incorrect way to use your body.
Don't let your body learn the wrong way to move.

With your lower abdomen pulled in and your ribs gathered toward the center,
only when both your stomach and the area below your ribs are slim
will you achieve a slim, supple, and toned waistline
🟰creating a body that also functions properly.

It might be difficult to be conscious of this at first.

But don't worry! Your body has memory too. By repeatedly being conscious of it, it will develop shape memory. Your body will learn the correct position.Building awareness and making it a habit is important.

Your muscle balance is formed
according to the posture you maintain daily.

If you spend a long time slouching,
the length and balance of your muscles
will default to the skeletal structure of a slouch.

The time you spend slouching
is like doing an exercise to become a sloucher.

That is exactly why!

When you notice yourself slouching,
straighten your back immediately.

And pull your navel toward your spine.

It becomes important to have that awareness.

Morning, noon, night
While waiting at traffic lights, waiting in line at the register, walking, etc.
Whenever you remember, straighten your back & focus on your navel!

The awareness to increase the time you spend with good posture
even by one minute, or even one second

that willadd up to a big difference.
Before you know it, your posture might just be better.

Please, try to be conscious of it.

Thank you for reading until the end.

Tomorrow, I will share about ③.
Look forward to it.

Yesterday's article ① Lengthening the spineis here↓