Is lying on the floor good for your health?

For some, just a few minutes can calm the mind.

As a child, Josh Patner got into the habit of climbing over his mother, who would lie down in the kitchen every time his mother-in-law called him.

“My grandmother would talk to him to the ear. “, remembers Mr. Partner, 61 years old. To cope, her mother would “lie down on the floor and hold the phone away from her head.” Mr. Patner's father, also a parquet fan, took a 20-minute nap under the family piano every evening after work.

So he can't It's no surprise that Mr. Patner likes to spend time on the floor at his home in Brooklyn or even at his friends' houses — partly to stretch and soothe his back (he suffers from scoliosis), but also, he says, because it's calming. .

“If I know you well enough to sit on your couch, I know you well enough to lie on your floor,” he said. said.

While this is nothing new to Mr. Patner, others are just beginning to adopt the practice: posts with the hashtag #floortime have garnered million views on TikTok.

Lily Bishop, a graduate student from Chicago, made a video showing herself lying on her beige rug, silently staring at the ceiling, arms outstretched . “I’m a grassroots person at heart,” read the words on the clip. “Did the meeting just end?” Ground. Are you coming back from the gym? Ground. Want to take a nap? Floor."

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