I'm not familiar with any books on the topic, Lee. Perhaps I should write one. Grin. As with everything simple, it takes 5 minutes to learn, and a lifetime to live and discover. Yes, if my experience has anything to say in the matter, you will find core strength and flexibility and posture gradually improve over three months, including any knee, back, neck, and shoulder issues resulting from weakened musclues, tense muscles and poor posture resulting from the cushion and structure of chair and bed living. I "transitioned" to floor living (sitting and sleeping) cold turkey. Sleeping is critical, as it's 1/3rd of your time in one go. Because I camp so often, sleeping on the floor was simple. Others I've talked with who've transitioned took a week or two before sleep "took out the kinks of the day" and they simply work up feeling better than they went to sleep.
For sitting, I "go by feel" quite literally. I sit in a position until it is uncomfortable, then I shift to another one until it feels uncomfortable. Wash, rinse, repeat. The general rule I used is if I wouldn't "have" that position out in the woods on the ground without bringing or making any furniture I wouldn't sit in it. That means I could lead against a wall (or couch) while bring on the floor, but not sit in a chair. The human body needs to shift, even subtly, every 20-30 minutes or so. After a challenging few months, by three months in I could be in every floor living position for at least 20 minutes and often 40 minutes. With abandon, Patrick On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 11:52:19 AM UTC-6, Lee Legrand wrote: > > Just out of curiosity Deacon because I was thinking of doing something > similar to that in terms of a table and trying to live more simply. Can > you hook me up with books, youtube video's or resources on this kind of > floor living? I still have a bed and mattress that I am attached to so I > do not think I will give those up but if I can live more on the floor like > having a lounging kind of chair or table to each, I think that would be > cool. It is interesting you said something about posture. I was having > some pains in my neck that seem to happen because of the chair I was > sitting in at work. The only way I could relieve that pain was thru > getting up and more exercise to strengthen the back. I am wondering if > squatting and living on the floor will help with that as well. > > Thanks Deacon > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Lee, floor living is living without chairs or a modern bed/mattress. My >> computer is at a kneeling desk. I am either sitting cross-legged, kneeling, >> squatting, standing, walking, or running. Bed is a few wool blankets made >> into a pad on the wood floor. Why?I started because of my brain injury, and >> everyone in our family followed at first because it was weird me on the >> floor and them not, but also because they also experience the vast >> improvements in posture, core strength, lithe and limberness. Everything >> in my body moves more fluidly. Helps significantly with the vertigo being >> easier to "cut through." >> >> Ian, initial projects with the wood in hand are: work bench, saw horse >> (not much to see there), testing a platform bench for around our floor >> table (a repurposed cutting board, actually), and then school desks and a >> minimalist lap desk (utterly simple: a 14" x 5.6" maple board). Rather than >> clutter up the list here, I'll likely post them to my adventure blog: >> http://thegrid.ai/withabandon/ >> >> RSS feed: http://thegrid.ai/withabandon/rss.xml >> >> Ian, great questions and comments! I have no idea how common floor >> living is in Japan anymore -- only that it has survived longer in their >> culture than in most. Many Scandinavian countries have various versions of >> it as well to various degrees. As to swinging over the top tube, it's hard >> to forget the load on the bike. It's quite good at reminding you its there, >> especially when stopped (amazing how the bike stabilizes with the wheels >> moving!). >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 10:41:57 AM UTC-6, Lee Legrand wrote: >>> >>> Deacon, >>> >>> What do you mean by floor living? >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
