Develop Healthy Sitting Postures with Darma

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A massive majority of people in the world, especially in developed countries spend almost half a day sitting. Professionals spend more than eight hours sitting in their offices, an hour or more in buses, trains, cabs and cars. Then some amount of time, an hour or more, is spent sitting on the couch watching television and then while eating meals throughout the day. There are many reasons why obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems and several other health ailments are on the rise. One of the many reasons is inactivity. Sedentary lifestyles were not meant for mankind and yet we have little to choose.

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There are many ways you can try to counter the negative impacts of your sedentary lifestyle but the easiest way is to correct your sitting posture, by breathing properly and by taking breaks on numerous occasions to get up and walk around a bit. All that and more can be done quite easily with Darma.

Darma is a path-breaking smart cushion that you sit on to know if you are sitting properly, if your posture is right, if you are stressing any particular joint, bone or muscle in your body and also if you are breathing properly. Most people slouch when they sit. Some people have unique sitting postures which cause back pain, spinal problems and also impair various neural responses. To counter all these damaging effects of sitting, you can get all the feedback and guidance you need from Darma.

What Darma essentially does is quite simple. It monitors your sitting posture, heart rate, respiration and the physical stresses in your body. Darma then assimilates all the data and tells you what you should be doing. You may be advised to sit straight, to stand up and take a break by walking for a few minutes, it may tell you to breathe in certain patterns and you would also be advised to take corrective action to address back pain or any pain that is bothering you due to a sedentary lifestyle.

Darma can be used anywhere, on any type of chair or couch and it can be used at all times. For a healthy body and mind, it is necessary for anyone to develop ideal sitting postures and there can be no better friend than Darma working in real time at all times to correct whatever is going wrong with your posture and thus your body.

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