The importance of good posture, and the Alexander Method

First, I want to shout out Brendan Birth for the great comment on the Migrant Children and Trauma post, I really appreciate your thoughts. Recently I have been working on correcting my posture, and body alignment. I am reading a book called Alexander Technique Manual by Richard Brennan, on the Alexander Method, a philosophy of restoring natural posture to give freedom of movement to those who practice it. People living in industrialized countries are dealing with high levels of back and neck pain that is uncommon in people living in non-industrialized nations. Why is this? One reason is the amount of time that people in industrialized nations spend at work, sitting or standing with unnatural posture.  Overtime this causes muscular imbalances and pain. The other reason is that many of the negative habitual patterns that cause bad posture have been conditioned from the moment a child started school. We sit…