keep your knees slightly flexed at all times

The first commandment that will help you become and stay grounded is to keep your knees slightly flexed at all times.

 Locking the knees when standing turns the whole lower part of the body from the hips down into a rigid structure, which then functions as a mechanical support or a mechanical means of locomotion. It prevents one from flowing into and identifying with the lower part of the body.

The knees are the shock absorbers of the body. When pressure is exerted on a person the knees flex, allowing the force to be transmitted through the body and into the ground. If the knees are locked the force is trapped in the lower back, producing a stress condition that will result in lower back trouble. We are always advised to keep our knees bent when lifting heavy objects. Psychological pressures are the equivalent of physical weights to the body. If we attempt to support these pressures with locked knees, we take their force in our lower back, then we might feel lower back pain.

a simple exercise that will help you train this habit:

✔️Stand with your feet about 8" apart in your normal position.

✔️Observe whether your knees are locked or bent, whether your feet are parallel or turned outward, whether your weight is forward on the balls of your feet or ✔️backward on your heels.

✔️Now bend your knees slightly.

✔️Turn your feet so that they are absolutely parallel.

✔️Pitch your weight forward without raising your heels so that it rests on the balls of your feet.

✔️Slowly bend and straighten the knees six times, and then hold the position for about thirty seconds, breathing easily.