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If you are not blind the "picture" you see in front of you lets you know if you are upright or leaning to the left or the right. Your body's muscles are then told by the brain to put things to rights.

But the main aid to balance is the set of 3 coils in your ears, These coils are tubes which contain some liquid which contacts with microscopic hairs inside the "canals". The 3 canals are positioned so that they can detect your body position in the 3 lines of space. The canals send their information to the brain which then sends messages to the appropriate muscles in your body to get to work restoring your position.

Of course there are times when you are deliberately out of position; for example when performing gymnastics.

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