For Those Lost in Their Posture: Simple Rules for Beautiful and Comfortable Posture

This article will
teach you how to achieve beautiful posture without hesitation, even if you've lost track of what good posture is,
and help relieve your shoulder stiffness in the process.

In particular, this time I will be focusing on the 'Sitting Edition'.

In my twenties, I myself
worked as a systems engineer, facing a PC every day.

However, I couldn't even sit for 30 minutes
because my shoulder stiffness and lower back pain were so severe,
making my days very painful.

As time passed, I would feel a tingling, numbing sensation in my shoulders.
My lower back always felt heavy and dull, so I would stretch or hunch over.
When it became unbearable, I would lean forward against the backrest...

When I couldn't take it anymore,
I would end up hanging out in the smoking room even though I didn't smoke (lol).

But with the content I'm sharing this time,
before I knew it, I had graduated from shoulder stiffness and lower back pain too♪

I currently work as a chiropractor, and
with this method, my patients with chronic shoulder stiffness
have also graduated from shoulder stiffness in as little as one week.

To achieve beautiful posture and
graduate from shoulder stiffness, there is
a very simple and easy rule.

■ You cannot graduate from shoulder stiffness with muscle training or stretching

You might think that
muscle training and stretching
are the absolute basics
for improving posture and shoulder stiffness.

However, with muscle training and stretching,
you end up repeating the shoulder stiffness, and
by focusing on the muscles,
you cannot truly
create your ideal posture.

Even if you try to 'keep your pelvis upright!'
or 'sit on your ischial bones!', you find yourself hunching over again,
and I'm sure many of you find that
it's still too difficult.

If you support your body with your muscles,
your shoulder stiffness won't get better,
and you won't be able to
achieve a truly straight posture.

■ Support your body weight with your "skeleton"

To improve your posture
and graduate from shoulder stiffness,
the most important thing is

By supporting yourself with your skeleton,
the burden on your muscles is removed,
and not only shoulder stiffness,
but various chronic pains and ailments will improve.

In my case,
even the lower back pain I used to get several times a year
was overcome thanks to this.

To support your body weight with your skeleton,
muscle training and stretching are not necessary.

Conversely, if there is tension, you cannot support yourself with your skeleton, so
"releasing tension"
becomes very important.

It is not about "strengthening,"
but about "releasing."

■ The reason why you can't release tension even when you want to

Even if you understand it in your head,
isn't it difficult
when you actually try to do it?

"I try to release tension but I can't"
"I'm told I'm tense even though I think I'm relaxed"

Many people realize this when their shoulders are massaged at a hair salon, don't they?

Actually, this is
a matter of how the body works.

Muscles tense up when you are conscious of them.
The moment you try to "relax" them, you become conscious of the muscles,
causing even more tension.

Therefore, what is needed is
not "relaxing your muscles," but
"creating a form where the skeleton naturally stabilizes."

Once you have the form,
your posture will naturally become beautiful,
it will be easier to release tension in your shoulders,
and your shoulder stiffness will start to ease.

■ Easing shoulder stiffness with beautiful posture

Now, from here on, I will teach you
how to support your body with your skeleton and ease shoulder stiffness with beautiful posture.
I will explain this to you.

Even if your posture is beautiful, it is tough if your shoulders are stiff, and
even if your shoulders aren't stiff, you don't want a sloppy posture, right?

To achieve both beauty and ease, we will support the body with the skeleton, and for this,
there is an
"ideal form."

To improve your posture,
you must know the form that serves as your goal.

If you work hard without knowing the goal,
you will never achieve it.

Once you can create the form,
all that is left is to release unnecessary tension,
and your shoulder stiffness will begin to ease.

Since this is very different from your previous posture,
you may feel uncomfortable at first,
but please get used to it little by little.

1) About the ideal form

There is an ideal form from the pelvis to the spine.

The pelvis tilts forward, and the hips tilt forward by about 30 degrees.
Although it is called a forward tilt, anatomically it is neutral and there is no problem at all.

Many people have their shoulders and back leaning backward like on the left,
and their face protruding forward.

Although there are individual differences,
the position where the back rounds changes,
leading to hunched shoulders and rounded shoulders.

If you can create the ideal form here,
the line from your hip joints to your shoulders and earlobes will become nearly straight.

By doing so,
you will support your upper body and head straight with your skeleton,
and the burden on your muscles will be very small.

Without straining,
you can sit with your central axis straight,
so you will look natural and beautiful,
and you can sit comfortably without shoulder stiffness.

The problem here is that
when creating the ideal form, your lower back and back
tend to become tense.

To create the ideal form without tensing your muscles,
there is a "simple rule".