BLUE LIGHT AND DIGITAL EYE STRAIN
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Do you have unexplained dry, irritated eyes? Blurred vision? Neck and back pain, headaches?  If so, your digital gadgets may be (at least partly) to blame. The results of a new survey released at the Consumer Electronics Show by the Vision Council, a trade group representing the nation's eye care products, shows that most Americans are overexposing their eyes to technology.  Nearly 90 percent said they spend two or more hours on a digital device each day, and many spend significantly more time on them. One in 10 reported spending at least 75 percent of their waking hours looking at a s ..read more
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Slouching as an art form of resistance
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A recent article in the Huffington Post made me realize how society never talks about slouching posture as a cultural act of defiance beyond the teenage years. But grown-up artist Sarah Lucas does just that, and I like the artistic expression of it. If we don't talk about the devastating health effects of habitual slouching but look at it as an artistic standpoint, we get an interesting new perspective: ".....Defiant slumping dates back at least to 1913 with the “debutante slouch,” a self-conscious craze (documented around the time by the Library of Congress and The New York Times) us ..read more
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Workshop: Sitting, Standing and Walking with Ease
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"'Having Good Posture' does not work, but 'Being In Good Alignment' does."​ If you are like most people, you sit quite a bit during the day.  Sitting can be difficult to maintain if your back is hurting, your spine is rounding and your head feels heavy when you are getting tired.   This workshop will address fundamental principles of balance, ease and alignment. Learn how to sit, stand and walk with less effort, more support, and more comfort. For more Information go to: www.walkinbalance.net/workshop-sitting-standing-and-walking-with-ease.html ..read more
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Stop Stretching Your Hamstrings!
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by Michaelle Edwards, YogAlign ​ "Hamstring stretching has been listed as a remedy for sciatica, back, hip, and leg pain. Fitness and yoga courses instruct people how to stretch their hamstrings by bending forward from standing or lying with the knees straight and ankles flexed creating a targeted stretch for the hamstring muscles. ​ Stretching the hamstring muscles will not make them longer because the tension or contraction of a muscle is under control of the nervous system. You simply cannot make a muscle longer by pulling on it. Hamstrings do not exist in isolation from the rest of the b ..read more
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Blue light from tech gadgets and digital eye strain: More than 73 percent of young adults suffer from symptoms
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Do you have unexplained dry, irritated eyes? Blurred vision? Neck and back pain and headaches? If so, your digital gadgets may be (at least partly) to blame. The results of a new survey released at the Consumer Electronics Show by the Vision Council, a trade group representing the nation's eyecare products, shows that most Americans are overexposing their eyes to technology. Nearly 90 percent said they spend two or more hours on a digital device each day, and many spend significantly more time on them. One in 10 reported spending at least 75 percent of their waking hours looking at a screen ..read more
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Learning To Be True: A Review of a Year of Alexander Technique Lessons.
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​by Daniel Norton Luna "The first time I entered the Walk-In-Balance Center for the Alexander Technique, I came to an "Effortless Posture 101" workshop - to learn some basics to help with my poor posture.  I walked away from this introduction to the Alexander Technique inspired to bring reason to my use of the body, to make sense of all my unconscious habits.  I signed up for lessons and the process of personal enlightening through my body has since continued. Reflecting on the lessons from this past year, countless micro-experiences, realizations, and life decisions come to my mind to descr ..read more
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Effects Of Printing, Cursive Writing and Typing on the Child's Learning Abilities.
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Early Development of Language by Hand: Composing, Reading, Listening, and Speaking Connections in Children. A 2006 study from the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Washington (Seattle) showed that Printing, Cursive Writing, and Typing on a keyboard are all associated with distinct and separate brain patterns - and each results in a distinct end result. When children composed text by hand, they not only consistently produced more words more quickly than they did on a keyboard, but expressed more ideas.... See the full study here ..read more
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Virginia Woolf and the Standing Desk
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It is said that Virginia Woolf wrote while standing at a desk 3'6" tall because she wanted to be like a painter who could instantly step away from her canvas to get a better view...  ​ She was onto something.  Coming up and out of the mental thicket for air, with wide eyes and ears to inhale space and sound, refreshing the senses to allow the emergence of the grander picture... Beautiful and relatable. Protagonist for the standing desk ..read more
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Integrity.
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"Integrity takes long thoughtful walks. When she comes home, her pockets are full of stones and shells and feathers. She is the daughter of a weaver, and she has inherited her mother's sense of texture and color, though she prefers the potter's wheel to the loom. She makes ritual vessels for the local temple. It was through working with clay that Integrity grew to understand that the body is also a vessel, beautiful, sturdy, empty, and sacred. Integrity loves the intersection where sculpture becomes dance. She has a supple spine and loves muscles. She knows sign language and has often ..read more
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Dr. Tinbergen, Nobel Prize Laureate, On The Alexander Technique's Influence On Health
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Check out this video description of the benefits of the Alexander Technique given by Dr. Tinbergen, Nobel Laureate. He devoted a significant portion of his Nobel lecture to talking about F. M. Alexander, the Alexander Technique, and the importance of Alexander's discoveries and the benefits he and his wife experienced from lessons ..read more
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