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Here's a recipe from my grandfather that fixed my rounded shoulders: 1. Stand erect. 2. Place your hands behind your head, overlapping. Your hands should be r
by kingmanaz 14y ago
Here's a recipe from my grandfather that fixed my rounded shoulders:
1. Stand erect.
2. Place your hands behind your head, overlapping. Your hands should be resting on the back of the head between the ears.
3. Move both hands apart so that the tips of your left and right middle fingers are just touching the bottom of your respective left and right earlobes. Your chest will expand and your shoulders move back.
4. Hold the position for a minute or two, though it may be uncomfortable.
5. Repeat throughout the day.
6. Incorporate the exercise into day-to-day activities. When walking, periodically check your position by touching your fingertips to your earlobes, per the instructions above. After practice you will be able to snap back into proper posture just by thinking of the exercise rather than physically touching your ears.
7. Follow the exercise with a long stint of standing book reading, being careful to maintain the posture. When your posture fails, set the book aside and re-do the exercise. At first you will think of the posture rather than the book. Eventually you will think of the book and not the posture.
This exercise corrected my posture and I have scoliosis. The standing book reading is what finally internalized the lesson. I stand and read for hours now without pain or slouching, when I started I would return to a hunch approximately every five minutes.
It's free, relatively easy, and may steer some away from television and toward books. I'd give it a shot.