Well, this blog isn’t about your sexual orientation. It’s about your much precious backbone.

Why are a lot of people unable to sit straight ?

Is it because they lack understanding or,

They are habituated due to erratic lifestyles.

Our backbone helps to sit straight. The backbone acts like a support. However, we need to know that our backbone is actually not straight like a line. It is slightly curved. This curve is made in sucha way as to provide maximum stability to the upper posture of our body.

So, while you sit, and straighten your backbone, it will reflect the curve towards the lower portion from mid way to the lower portion just around the butts.

However, when you are sitting on modern furnitures like Chairs, Sofas, Cushioned Diwans, we compromise on the posture of our body. The slight curve that is ought to be formed doesn’t figure. We rather lean on them to support our backs nullifying the significance of our backbone.

In this context, I would suggest that sitting on the ground helps. When you sit on the ground, you allow the backbone to take charge and provide the much needed support. This also helps the backbone to exercise and get the requisite workout.

Our backbone is not just from the shoulders to the hips. Actually, the same bone extends all the way to the head. Thus, your backbone acts as a highway for the major nerves and supplies for the various organs above your legs.  

Therefore, any defect or malfunction in your backbone could be the cause for many illnesses that your body may attract.

Our Indian way of living lays a lot of emphasis on doings tasks while sitting on the ground. Even when you sit on things like bed, chair, sofa etc you tend to raise your legs and create a squat posture rather than hanging the legs own.

Our modern lifestyle equipments are the creations of the west where even the Greeks and Romans used chair. Hence we find them almost everywhere. So, you don’t imagine yourself sitting in the squatted position in your office. Right!

But, the need of the hour is that we realise this anomaly and take corrective actions to improve our fitness. We spend long hours at work when we are sitting on chairs and hanging the legs down on the floor. And putting our precious backbone at risk.

Here are few practices that I may suggest to you to reverse the effects of those long hours at work in office.

When you come back home from work, allow yourself to sit on the ground. Keep your drawing room spacious enough to spread a carpet or a chatai.

Anduse the floor to sit, watch tv, or even have food. Indians prefer to have food while sitting on the ground in a squatted posture which is very good. Let’s celebrate our culture as it wasn’t all unscientific. There is a lot that we can imbibe from our grandparents who never felt the need beyond Machia.