Good posture gives an impression of vitality, confidence and health that will keep you attractive for life. Correct posture helps physical troubles and mental ones.

Check yourself in a full-length mirror for posture sins:

• Floorward forehead: If your head hangs down, so does everything else, so pull your neck up high, chin parallel to the floor, eyes straight ahead.
• Hunched shoulders: Pull them up and back, then relax.
• Saggy breasts: Take a deep breath, lift up but not out.
• Vanishing waistline: Pull up from the base of the spine.
• Rear thrust: Tilt your pelvis forward and up.
• Loose legs: Strengthen the inner calf muscles with exercise.
• Pigeon toes or duck feet: Concentrate on keeping heels and toes in a straight line. A tin-solder stance is just as bad as a sloppy-Joe slouch. Instead, imagine that you're suspended from the ceiling by a fine cord that passes through your head, down the middle of your spine You will then feel the natural alignment of the limbs.

Sedentary urban women can acquire the bad habit of shallow breathing that leads to tension, a drawn look and dull, oxygen deprived skin. Deep rhythmic breathing can relax you, help you sleep, give you a warm, sexier voice and a flatter tummy, along with the clear eyes and skin that go with healthy circulation.