Melt your shoulder blades down the back Habit of the Week - HOW

When we are distracted, preoccupied, tense, or anxious. our shoulders creep or pop up towards our ears. Let me prove it. Just take a sharp intake of breath. Gasp, as if in a fright.  Did your eyebrows go up? Did your shoulders jump up? In these interesting times of wall-to-wall news, our shoulders might LIVE up in our ears. What a waste of effort! This week's habit is the antidote.  

Melt your shoulder blades down the back 

Whenever you are at rest, ensure your shoulder blades glide downwards and stay there.  This builds upon the last two habits.  Draw up the Golden Thread to lengthen and straighten the spine. Gently spread open your upper chest triangle. In other words, make sure you are in good posture. 

You can get there by a few different means.  You can try one of these three

1. Roll your shoulders first forward, up, back and down - leave them there or
2. Shrug your shoulders - lift them up and drop them down or
3. Turn your upper arms outwards.

Melting your shoulder blades down your back is an example of the mind/body connection at work. Holding our shoulders up might very well make us even more tense, and stressed. Whereas melting the shoulders down the back, may help to calm the mind.   

The dreaded rounded shoulders.

Left unsupervised, our upward-creeping shoulder blades may also contribute to rounded shoulders and dreaded head-forward position.  

So 100 times per day, whenever you think about it, melt your shoulders down the back.  Remember, our body adapts to the load we give it. The more we move particular muscles, the stronger they get. So with our shoulder blades melted down the back, if the wind did change, we'd stay THAT way.