Lately I’ve been reading blog posts by people who’ve had good luck standing while working at the computer. Today, I tried this. It worked great for a few minutes and then I felt myself getting pulled into my screen by my need to deeply focus. My brain automatically wanted me to sit down and get serious with a few mini-projects that were on my desk.

I forced myself to stay up longer, if for nothing else, to begin training my mind-body to coordinate productive work with an active body stance.

As I tell my Clear the Blear workshop participants, introducing new movements and mind-body challenges a little at a time is the key to long term positive changes in posture, alignment and body movability.

Focus is a double edge sword, isn’t it? I mean getting more pinpointed about interacting with my computer makes me want to sit down to work, and this traps me into inertia and deactivation. A great way to lose my natural right to my physicality. And it draws my head forward. Forward head posture encourages my thoracic spine to go into a kyphosis AGH!