Stack your head above your body - Habit of the Week - HOW

We can stack the head above the body by organizing the neck.

This week's habit is to lengthen the neck by angling the chin downwards.  Thus the head is effortlessly carried above the body in good alignment.

Why

We need to be reminded  because when we are distracted, our heads creep forward.  Distraction can take many forms.  When we are concentrating on something, like singing or driving even watching TV.  Alternatively, when our energy is low, such as  feeling a fatigued. Our head comes forward and down.  

We pay a heavy price for this poor posture.  Even though it feels comfortable our heads are, in fact,  heavy.   It's just physics. The longer the lever (our neck), the greater the effort is required to hold the head (the load) up.

How

Imagine a line from your ear to the tip of your nose:- that line should angle downwards
The habits build one upon another.  

• It is difficult to stack your head above your body when your shoulders are hunched up and rounded forward.  
• It is impossible to melt your shoulders down the back without opening the upper chest "triangle". 
• There is no triangle without pulling up the Golden thread, elongating the spine and neck.

So draw up the Golden Thread
Spread open the  triangle of the upper chest
Melt the shoulders down the back 
With a long neck, tilt the chin gently downwards