Imagine that you have two sets of eyes. The first would be the ones we are used to viewing the world with. The second would be down in the center of you chest, by your sternum.

Now imagine that you have a laser light emanating from your sternum.

Where would it point? Up? Down? Level? For most of us, it would point down do to medial rotation of our scapula. If you wanted to raise this level, how would you do this without doing a back bend? The answer is, if you haven’t already figured it out, is to roll your shoulders back (not pinching your shoulder blades together, but moving them up, back and down).

Whenever you sit, stand, walk or move try to remember that this laser needs to be level, or in other words to bring you back to the eyes metaphor; you need to look at the horizon or the horizon plus one degree with both sets of eyes; the ones on your head and the ones in your chest.

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Posture trick: The marionette

Stand up. Imagine you have a string of support running through the bones of your body. It starts through the heels, comes up your leg through you knees, hips, up your spine to the base of the head and out through the top of your head (not the center of your head - More towards the back, where the spine would come out or where you hair swirls).

Take one hand and lightly pull a tuft of your hair in this spot. Life your body up, let yourself get taller and taller.