Did you know that your posture is a good measure of how you are and how you are perceived? I'm reading Jordan B. Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life. Rule #1: "Stand up straight, with your shoulders back." Sounds pretty simple, but has great consequences.
"Some of the positive feedback loops instantiated by body language can occur beyond the private confines of subject experience, in the social space you share with other people. If your posture is poor, for example--if you slump, shoulder forward and rounded, chest tucked in, head down, looking small, defeated and ineffectual (protected, in theory, against attack from behind)--then you will feel small, defeated and ineffectual. The reactions of others will amplify that."
So, good posture isn't just for your good health -- which it also is, letting those organs expand and breath -- it is for your social health as well. FYI: a good read.
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