Note that keeping your arches engaged all the time may be just as "bad" as having collapsed arches all of the time. One of the reasons for this foot exercise is to recognize the sensations that occur when your arches are engaged and to recognize the sensations when your foot is relaxed. ...
“Gravity is always trying to pull our structures down into a collapsed state,” Tolstoy says. Your neck, he adds, is heavily responsible for fighting that pull in order to keep your head and visual field stable. When you get stuck in a habit for how you do that—like continually sitting...