Many people spend most of the day sitting, and some spend 4-5 hours a day hunched over technology, causing the neck, shoulders, and back to become tight and misaligned. When your head and shoulders come forward, the space needed for the lungs to expand is reduced, resulting in less oxygen in the vascular system. Less oxygen in the lungs leads to less energy.
As the muscles become tight, the spine changes shape and becomes misaligned, causing its muscles to become tighter and more painful. Spine flexibility is, therefore, reduced restricting rib cage movement and causing the lungs to inflate less.
In a healthy lifestyle, improved strength, flexibility, and better alignment are essential for the entire body and very positively affect energy and a healthy, active lifestyle. As well, YOUR bones, muscles, and fascia need to move and, therefore, all must be supple – – not stiff. The less one exercises, the weaker and the less flexible the body becomes.
Combined with spinal stiffness, back PAIN contributes to less oxygen in the lungs again, resulting in less energy.
So, you can see that the foregoing process both reduces one’s energy and is circular. Experiencing less and less energy over time is not how you want to live.
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