Try this:
In bare feet, stand with your back against a wall. Notice how you are standing upright, forming a 90 degree angle with the floor.
Slide a book, about 2 or 3 inches in height, under both heels. If you keep your body in its original line, you will be tilting forward, decreasing your angle with the floor by about 20 degrees.
Now straighten up so you're once again touching the wall, and feel what has happened in your body. The curve in your lumbar spine exaggerates, causing the pelvis to tilt forward. To compensate, you lean back with your shoulder girdle. Your hips are flexed, your feet are pointed and your knees buckle. Your brain instantly receives this new positional information and tries to regain a sense of equilibrium by making a slew of tissue and joint changes to your entire body. Not to mention the compressional forces being placed on your internal organs.
For those who wear high heels regularly, the brain has remapped these adjustments, storing them in engrained neural pathways. When the heels come off, the body maintains these abnormal muscular adaptations. The brain will eventually reinterpret these patterns as normal, causing the high-heel-wearing gal to feel comfortable in heels, but unstable in bare feet. As she ages, she may find she has stiff hip joints, disc compression, and damaged joints and ligaments.
Sorry ladies. High heels might look attractive, but damage to your spine, joints, organs and muscles is definitely NOT attractive. Ditch the heels for a pair of comfortable flats - your body with thank you for it.
Source - Massage Magazine
By now, you probably know that prolonged stress can be devastating to the body and mind. But what can you do to manage your stress? A recent study says that prevention is the most effective way to reduce stress - even more so than relaxation techniques like yoga and meditation. The outcomes of the study suggest 6 strategies to best manage stress:
Source - Scientific American Mind
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