First you need to engage your core at all timesâthis doesnât mean sucking it in and keeping it tight; itâs more like gently, ever so slightly drawing your belly button up and back towards your spine and breathing through your diagram just enough to keep those muscles activated. Strengthen your coreâit protects the spine and gives you the power to keep all of your other muscles engaged!
When standing, your head, heart (shoulders and upper chest), hips, and feet should ideally be in alignment. Obviously the same goes for sitting as far as the torso is concerned.
People tend to:
* have forward neck posture from mouth breathing and being on their phonesâpull your head back and keep your chin lifted! (Try yoga for text neck)
* slouch and slump in their shouldersâpull the heads of your shoulders back and rotate them outwards; retract your shoulder blades by drawing them back and towards the spine.
* tilt and lean their pelvis and hipsâyour tailbone should be scooping forward and down and your hips should ideally be perpendicular to the floor.
Check yourself throughout the day and see if youâre in alignment.
It takes active work to have good posture. Your posture-supporting muscles are most likely weak. I would recommend light body weight strength training like Pilates, barre, or yoga and I would also encourage you to do chakra yogaâstarting at the root chakra and working your way up. This will help you systematically get into alignment at every chakra which are essentially the posture points I identified above (I love Jen Hilmanâs 7-day chakra series).
You might want to look into somatic yoga and Pilates and body scan meditations too because youâre probably not very aware of your body.
I sit on the front edge of seats whenever Iâm not lounging on the couch (deeply engrained habit from playing viola for years). I think this helps because itâs very easy to slouch when youâre leaning on the back of a chair for support rather than using your own muscles to stay upright.
There have been times where Iâve regressed and I bought an adjustable posture corrector to helpâtheyâre like tight backpack straps for both shoulders that connect in the back and pull your shoulders back.
Thatâs about all I can say⌠posture is very important to me because itâs essential for your health and weâll-being and it makes you appear confident and elegant. hope this helps! đ
Dec 7, 2024
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I struggled with slouching FOREVER. No amount of 'sit up straight' mindfulness during the day ever worked for me. In fact, I was a ballet dancer for 10 years, knew what good posture was per se but outside of dancing it just didnât translate into my day to day and I still struggled.
The real game-changer for me happened earlier this year: With no intention of working on my posture I just started shifting my focus from lower body workouts at the gym to back and arm exercises, using machines as well as dumbbells. Suddenly my posture improved SO much. I noticed that my head started to naturally align with my spine again but without me forcing myself to stand straight. I think overhead movements, in particular, made the biggest difference. Turns out, I didnât have bad posture or laziness. I just had underdeveloped upper back and shoulder muscles đŞđ˝
Dec 7, 2024
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Practice mindful sitting/standing posture and projecting confidence
Itâs for your health
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My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebodyâbe it a relative or one of my best friendsâwas to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too đ
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Iâve been thinking about how much of social media is centered around curating our self-image. When selfies first became popular, they were dismissed as vain and vapidâa critique often rooted in misogynyâbut now, the way we craft our online selves feels more like creating monuments.
We try to signal our individuality, hoping to be seen and understood, but ironically, I think this widens the gap between how others perceive us and who we really are. Instead of fostering connection, it can invite projection and misinterpretationâpreconceived notions, prefab labels, and stereotypes. Worse, individuality has become branded and commodified, reducing our identities to products for others to consume.
On most platforms, validation often comes from how well you can curate and present your imageâselfies, aesthetic branding, and lifestyle content tend to dominate. High engagement is tied to visibility, not necessarily depth or substance. But I think spaces like PI.FYI show that thereâs another way: where connection is built on shared ideas, tastes, and interests rather than surface-level content. Itâs refreshing to be part of a community that values thoughts over optics.
By sharing so few images of myself, Iâve found that it gives others room to focus on my ideas and voice. When I do share an image, it feels intentionalâsomething that contributes to the story I want to tell rather than defining it. Sharing less allows me to express who I am beyond appearance.
For women, especially, sharing less can be a radical act in a world where the default is to objectify ourselves. It resists the pressure to center appearance, focusing instead on what truly matters: our thoughts, voices, and authenticity. Iâve posted a handful of pictures of myself in 2,500 posts because I care more about showing who I am than how I look.
In trying to be seen, are we making it harder for others to truly know us? Itâs a question worth considering.
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