The tendency to slump
If you tend to slump, you need to learn to lengthen your back. Use the time that you're sitting to stretch yourself against the backrest.
- Sit with your bottom well back in your chair while moving your upper body away from the backrest.
- Place your fists on the front lower border of your rib cage, then gently push back on your rib cage so as to elongate your lower back.
- Then, grab some place of your chair and make yourself taller by gently pushing the top of you away from the bottom.
- In that position, put your back against the chair's backrest. Ideally, the chair would have some grippy thing mid-back to hold you.
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