Perfect Posture

About the Book

Perfect Posture explains why and how standing in a particular manner properly proportions and evenly tones your body front to back and side to side from top to bottom. It's the upright position of alignment where a normal state of continuous slight tension, called tonus, is coursing evenly through all the weight bearing muscles of your body. With practice, this position of alignment can be maintained without conscious effort even while standing and feeling relaxed. It can be maintained while using no more effort than you do with your current way of standing. Through concentration and establishment of centered postural habits you will have a natural, calorie burning tonus always running through all those usually flaccid muscles of your stomach, buttocks and legs. Considering this, it now seems time to say "Let your posture be your exercise, and your exercise be your posture." Perfect Posture: it's not just for good looks anymore.

What is Perfect Posture? Perfect Posture is the process of maintaining the body in equilibrium of balance. What is meant by the phrase "equilibrium of balance"? Equilibrium is the harmony that results from the balance of contraries. It's the dead center, where the opposition of opposing forces, being equal in strength, succeeds in a balanced, resting motion. It's the central point - the point within the circle of physical symmetry. It's the living synthesis of counterbalanced power. Perfect Posture refers to this subject with a detailed explanation of the how and why of these precepts. This doctrine of equilibrium, balance, centering and symmetry is fundamental in the concept of Perfect Posture.

About the Author

Thirty years ago without forethought or knowledge of modern medicine, circumstance set me on a course to become a Registered Nurse. Within five years of graduation from school I found myself with a severe, immobilizing back injury. Thus began a 25-year study of the available literature and observation of generations of clients, as well as personal experience and experiment. What had started as an attempt to fix my back evolved into a comprehensive study of the way the human body works as a whole.

After 25 years I've found nothing to contradict or disprove the principles presented in this postural owner's manual for the human body. So I don't think I'm rushing into print. I believe this is the most comprehensive explanation of the dynamics of posture you will find.

Therefore I introduce these principles and methodologies of body mechanics with a high degree of confidence in their accuracy, safety, and predictability of outcome. I think you will find the logic and soundness of the views persuasive and understandable regardless of your education or background.