The Health Postures & Their Stages of Accomplishment

Figure 1 shows the preliminary stage of gently rocking - while moving downward - a little at a time, until the posture shown in figure 2 is attained, or as far as one can comfortably get down, without strain or force.

The arrows indicate the up-and-down rocking motion for achieving the squatting position.

The feet should be about six inches apart at the heels and about twelve inches apart at the toes. This will differ a little with each person as his comfort or balance permits.

The close position of the feet gives more support to the abdomen by the thighs pressing on nearly all of it from the anterior, especially when the knees are pushed together as shown in figure 3, for expelling gas and stimulating the downward currents which govern the peristaltic movement of the bowels.