Body poise and its relation to the corset
One has only to look about him at the mental, nervous and physical states of most adults, to see that the activity which daily living calls forth is not adequate to keep one's mind and body at their highest level for any number of years.
Just living, or trying to save one's self by inactivity. is dangerous. For, whatever the nature of one's occupation—domestic, manual, clerical, business or professional—the bodily activity necessitated by it is almost invariably limited, so that it tends to undermine, rather than to upbuild one's energies.
We must lure health to abide with us by making conditions favorable to it. These conditions can be secured in many ways, and not the least important of these ways is the habitual, right, mechanical adjustment and use of the body, or body poise.
Whatever the order of one's life there are certain fundamental uses to which the body is put. We stand, sit, walk, climb stairs, bend, reach, lift and let go, or relax. To recognize how badly we do these daily acts of life we have only to look about us. How many people deem it useless to educate themselves along these lines!
The body is a wonderful organism, and in order that the spirit and will of the woman who occupies it may have the freest play, the true relations between the different parts of the organism must be maintained at all times. The body's continued prosperity depends largely upon how to do the innumerable and unavoidable little acts of daily life. Your physical breakdown or your ruggedness at sixty may depend upon the way you sit and stand at thirty.
Everyone can learn to stand and sit after Nature's ordering, and to do so is the first obligation that health imposes upon us. The various parts of the body, the head, the torse, the legs, must be trained to the easiest page three
