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@Scott_NB : Great question regarding position. I have given this about 11 years of thought. The answer is both. Yes push through and adjust the guitar as needed. The perfect way to hold if I am going for both comfort and sound is a 2or3 inches from my hip resting on my leg with the guitar leaning forward 12 degrees or so making the guitar point slight toward the floor as oppossed to the way most new players play tilting the guitar toward the ceiling. The reason most new players use this uncomfortable position is because they want to see the strings and the fingers. Tilting the guitar down gives your fingers relief from the acute angles opening them up for an obtuse angle interaction. 25 degrees may not seem like much, try it out, pay attention to that high E string, see if that corrects it….the down side?….cant see what your fingers are doing. Eventually this will not matter but I relied heavily on what I could see early on in my journey so I understand its importance for learning. My son had a teacher who told him to play looking in a mirror in order to see what his fingers were doing while correcting posture. I never did it but it made sense. The next part is the tough part to say only because when I was early in the process I hated hearing it….focused time in the saddle is the only way to make it happen. Getting myself into shape for playing the guitar was like doing the Splits. Too fast or too much and get hurt. It does not happen in one day and it is more of a change in practice on a daily basis that allowed the gain in flexibility so I could make the sound I want to make. Stretching properly is as important now to me as learning theory or a new skill! This is where understanding pain vs discomfort comes into play. My tips hurt like heck when they were soft….”discomfort” (no lasting effects beyond the experience and likely necessary to advance). My shoulder, elbow, wrists, neck, back, aches past when I stop playing…Pain (leading to tendonitis). Remedy: stretching. Slow stretching where you barely feel it. This is unlike athletic stretching for sore muscles. Think silly putty…slow stretch you can barely feel and it stretches forever….too fast and it snaps. This is how I learned how to turn my arm seemingly inside out in order to play the guitar. Tension is the enemy. Playing the guitar is the practice of reducing tension while under load. As my accuracy and precsion improved my effort necessary to make the desired sound was also reduced. All effort becomes directed to sound production and there is no wasted tension. Magic! not a trick but a practice.