Correct toileting habits:

• Take your time approaching the rest room.
• Lean forward, elbows can rest on knees
• Bend knees, knees higher than hips
• Straight back
• Use a footstool
• Practice deep belly breathing, breathing out your mouth
• Relax your anal sphincter if having a bowel movement

Incorrect toileting habits:

• Run to the rest room as fast as possible
• Rush and strain
• Lift your heels off the ground when sitting on the toilet
• Hunch over
• Cross your legs
• Breathe as fast as you can or hold breath
• Hover over the toilet

References:

Bladder & Bowel Community. (n.d.). Toilet positions to relieve constipation. https://www.bladderandbowel.org/bowel/bowel-resources/toilet-positions/#1676025553220-485dcd7e-060f