Forget 'perfect', and let's just focus on 'better' - 50 day blog: day 16

We all have our stuff, we all have our habits.... And do you know, we're not perfect so let's not be TOO hard on ourselves... 

Did I really say that? Isn't my job all about alignment and efficiency and getting the best out of ourselves? Well, yes, it is, but there's also an arguement for accepting that there are some things that we just aren't prepared to put effort into changing... (yet...). 

Take crossing one leg over the other when we sit, for example. 

I don't think anyone is going to turn round and give me a credible argument for it being GOOD for them, are they? It takes your pelvis out of its best balanced position. We usually have a preference for one leg crossing over the other which puts rotation habitually through one side, but not the other, has a compensation through the upper body and we effectively 'mould' ourself into that asymmetric shape. We then take that shape into other shapes and actions and wonder why one legs 'works better' then the other and why we feel stiff doing certain things. 

Yes, I'd really like you to sit with legs uncrossed, feet flat on the floor, knees no lower than hips, spine upright, head sitting on top of spine above your pelvis, shoulders relaxed etc etc etc..... That's a long list of to do's! I'll ask you to do that every single time you sit when I MYSELF do that very single time I sit. I get that life is REAL! 

So here's how you start to make that habit not SO bad. You get in the habit of crossing the other leg over instead from time to time. You cross both legs every so often. You sit on a different chair, or you face a different direction every so often. Maybe you sit on the floor. Or maybe you stand sometimes. And just by doing that, you are making that 'bad' habit less of an issue. You break the repetitiveness of the position and so you break it's overall effect on your body. 

For it's not any one thing that's 'bad' for us. It's more that we can end up doing too much of the same thing that's not particularly good for us. 

It's just like chocolate. One bar once in a while ain't so bad. 5 bars a day? Oh, that's definitely not good is it...?! You get the picture? 

Til tomorrow then :-) 

CT :-) x