My uncle was watching something on Huffington Post that caught my ear. It was something about fixing your feet. Took me a long time to find the right video, as he was very helpful on helping me to figure out how to access the videos, but, highly uninformative as to which video he had been watching.
Turns out it was a video where some ladies were interviewing a yoga instructor about her ideas on fixing feet and various other things related to fixing the body. Mostly, I wanted more information than there was available on the video or to be found by doing Google searches, but, I did garner three bits of information.
One is that when you are feeling tired and getting slump shouldered, you can find the "end of your sternum" , aka: the bottom, where the bone ends in between the two sides of your ribcage. From there, you walk your fingers up about three inches. For me, this is at the hollow, aka: the place people generally punch people when they punch them in the sternum and/or the place where my hiccups are felt the worst. You push up, at that point, and it immediately helps your shoulders and neck relax into proper positioning. It works for me, and, so I would definitely recommend giving it a try.
Another is that for TMJ, the problem is that your mouth is generally held in the position it takes when under stress. For most people with TMJ this is due to teeth grinding and setting their jaw tensely, because, they are angry or stressed out. For me, it is mostly due to the fact that I have a terribly huge tongue and a rather small jaw. The end result is the same: your tongue is usually glued to the top of your mouth. She said that every time you find your tongue in this position, you need to let it relax back down to the bottom of your mouth and it immediately makes your entire jawline relax. If you can do this often enough and well enough, it should fix, or at least better, the TMJ. Seems to work, though, it is hard to remember and to do, for me.
Lastly, there is the foot thing. I have already been working on remembering to walk heel/toe. They taught us that in school and then, for some reason, started teaching subsequent generations that it doesn't really work. I have found it does help, a great deal, in straightening out my hips and lower back, though they still need lots more help.
She said to do something that I was already sort of doing, at times, with one foot, which I was doing when my knee was really hurting; only, even more so. Which is to walk on the outside of your feet. Only, per her instructions, you go heel, outside of foot, outside toes leading up to big toe, back to heel.
I find this hard to do, but, I've been trying to do it, and I can honestly say that my feet feel like they are changing for the better, just from the little bit I have done.
The point is to use your whole foot for walking, which stimulates your organs better, balances the muscles you use for walking better, corrects your posture and makes your feet hurt less. It is supposed to help heal your flattened or otherwise abused arches and encourage your feet to attain and retain the shape they are meant to have., too.
Other things she talked about, which I grasped less information on, were about massaging your feet and hands, using some spiky half ball thing that she sells. This is also supposed to stimulate the organs and make everything better. I imagine a massage ball or anything else of a similar nature would work.
