{"id":41325,"date":"2012-03-07T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41325"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:44:13","slug":"how-to-read-a-book-comfortably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41325","title":{"rendered":"How To Read A Book Comfortably"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I took Alexander lessons, I never thought about the way I read books. I never thought about my sitting mechanics. I never thought about the strain of holding a book up.<\/p>\n

Nuitsmani comments on one of my videos on how to sit<\/a>: “When reading a book (or writing) I put my book (or journal) on the table. And so I need to bend my head down. Is it a right thing to do? Or should I bend from my hips while keeping my head aligned with my back?”<\/p>\n

I would recommend putting the book or\ufeff journal under some pillows on your lap. I use three pillows.<\/p>\n

I also read standing up, allowing my book to rest on the back of my chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I took Alexander lessons, I never thought about the way I read books. I never thought about my sitting mechanics. I never thought about the strain of holding a book up. Nuitsmani comments on one of my videos on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41326,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325\/revisions\/41326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}