After this morning’s breakfast, Dad mentioned how Marines would sleep without pillows. And that’s why their stances are straight!
In response I told Dad that recently I had to sleep without my pillows because I’ve been experiencing neck problems, especially during morning masses where I’d feel like my neck is out-of-place and my shoulders/muscles are painful.
After one night of sleeping without my pillows and the following nights last year, I noticed that my posture (especially the following morning of that first night) during morning masses was straighter! This was before I ever got my orthopedic shoes/inserts. And my shoulders didn’t slouch/hurt/rounded out. My neck was also stable and less painful, too! I seem to hold my chin higher too.
So this year, I went back to sleeping with my pillows because I would gag on my spit/congestion from sinus and/or lungs. Sometimes I’d use the old firm pillow and/or with one of two “thinner” baby pillow on top for a slightly higher elevation. I tried sleeping without pillows this year and it’s not the same anymore.
The diet helped reduce the fat in/around my pharynx/throat/whatever and I felt like I was breathing better/easier, too. Before dieting, I was having shortness of breath and I felt like my neck was tight.
Yeah, so sleeping WITHOUT pillows, at least temporarily, may help to improve one’s posture, painful shoulders/neck and breathing, too.
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