• Slouching promotes low mood, decreased energy levels and can even impair student performance on a math test.
• Upright posture is linked with improved mood and energy levels among people with symptoms of depression.
• The bent-over posture associated with smartphone use could hamper breathing and impair respiratory function.

The more time a person spends in a bad posture, the more the body’s muscles and ligaments embrace it as normal. 

Human emotion and cognition are closely linked to body posture. And this link operates like a two-way street. Feeling depressed or frightened can cause a person’s head to ...