One of the general ideas from the Robbins branch of NLP is that how you feel can be affected by your posture. Your physiology. How you carry yourself in your body's structure has an effect on emotional state. It seems counterintuitive to those who approach the idea from a strictly western scientific mindset, thought they're beginning to catch on, see this study how botox was used to treat depression [that is of course meeting with the expected resistance], but from a holistic standpoint, the separation we make between the mind and body is purely a linguistic one. The fact that we separate our mind and body in our language doesn't reflect "reality", just our bias. The placebo effect, of course, speaks to this...
I've found the point made below, the typical American posture that's developing - all rounded, compact and sloped - does have a signficant effect on how I feel. It makes me more lethargic, depressed, tired... Lengthening, elongating, stretching more, generally makes me feel better. But sitting all day, and with bad posture, is a recipe for depression. Get up, move and stretch.
Expert Blogs Yoga for You - Opening Up the Body on Yahoo! Health:
"There is a national posture going on, and we seem to be handing it down to the next generation. Our chests are collapsed, our shoulders rounded forward, and our pelvises tucked. This is a funny way to try to protect ourselves, not so unusual but not so effective. This posture ends up stressing our heart, creating depression, causing neck and lower back problems, and blocking digestion. It's not a bad idea when being physically attacked to try to protect your vital organs, but to assume this posture day in and day out, all day long is surely debilitating to the natural functions of the body. Every so often, you see an older person in Asia who has worked in the rice fields all their life and is now permanently hunched over. Let's make sure this does not happen to us."
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