Optimize your performance and prevent computer-related injuries with
Healthy Computing Email Tips. Each week we provide hints to help you stay
healthier while working.
Immobility is one of the major contributors to discomfort at the computer
as well as increased weight gain. People who unknowingly wiggle and move
often tend to be less at risk for obesity and illness. Practice wiggling
and moving through out the day to avoid immobility and chronic low level
tension. Do the following movement to reduce immobility and tightness and
observe how there is a link between your hand and your foot. Practice
interrupting habitual tension patterns when you CONNECT TO YOUR FEET.
How to CONNECT TO YOUR FEET:
- While sitting at your desk, lift your RIGHT foot off the floor and make
CLOCKWISE circles.
- Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right
hand. Observe how your foot changes direction!
- Even as you try to continue the clockwise rotation, the moment you begin
writing a 6 with your right hand, your foot will change directionsand
you are probably holding your breath!
- Repeat the same activity with your left foot and hand.
- Explore ways to break apart the automatic connection between hand and
foot while you continue to breathe.