{"id":1635,"date":"2024-03-11T13:42:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:03:25","slug":"is-lying-on-the-floor-good-for-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"Is Lying on the Floor Good for Your Health?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For some, just a few minutes can quiet the mind.<\/p>\n

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As a child, Josh Patner became accustomed to stepping over his mom, who used to lie down in the kitchen whenever her mother-in-law would call.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother would talk her ear off,\u201d Mr. Patner, 61, recalled. To cope, his mother would \u201clie on the floor and hold the phone away from her head.\u201d Mr. Patner\u2019s father, also a fan of the floor, took a 20-minute nap under the family\u2019s piano each night after work.<\/p>\n

So it is unsurprising, perhaps, that Mr. Patner enjoys floor time at his home in Brooklyn or even at his friends\u2019 places \u2014 in part to stretch and soothe his back (he has scoliosis), but also, he says, because it feels calming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I know you well enough to sit on your couch, I know you well enough to lie on your floor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While this is nothing new to Mr. Patner, others are just now catching on to the practice: Posts with the hashtag #floortime have garnered millions of views on TikTok.<\/p>\n

Lily Bishop, a graduate student in Chicago, made a video<\/a> showing herself supine on her beige carpet, silently staring at the ceiling, arms spread wide. \u201cI am a floor person to my core,\u201d read the words emblazoned over the clip. \u201cMeeting just ended? Floor. Home from the gym? Floor. Want to take a nap? Floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For some, just a few minutes can quiet the mind.As a child, Josh Patner became accustomed to stepping over his mom, who used to lie down in the kitchen whenever her mother-in-law would call.\u201cMy grandmother would talk her ear off,\u201d Mr. Patner, 61, recalled. To cope, his mother would \u201clie on the floor and hold the phone away from her head.\u201d Mr. Patner\u2019s father, also a fan of the floor, took a 20-minute nap under the family\u2019s piano each night after work.So it is unsurprising, perhaps, that Mr. Patner enjoys floor time at his home in Brooklyn or even at his friends\u2019 places \u2014 in part to stretch and soothe his back (he has scoliosis), but also, he says, because it feels calming.\u201cIf I know you well enough to sit on your couch, I know you well enough to lie on your floor,\u201d he said.While this is nothing new to Mr. Patner, others are just now catching on to the practice: Posts with the hashtag #floortime have garnered millions of views on TikTok.Lily Bishop, a graduate student in Chicago, made a video showing herself supine on her beige carpet, silently staring at the ceiling, arms spread wide. \u201cI am a floor person to my core,\u201d read the words emblazoned over the clip. \u201cMeeting just ended? Floor. Home from the gym? Floor. Want to take a nap? Floor.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}