What is a feeling of well-being? Why it is sometimes a very elusive thing to have well-being? How are we actually involved with its presence in our day to day lives, and how can the Alexander Technique make well-being a new habit of life? I would say a feeling of well-being is the very opposite […]
Continue to Full Post...Month: June 2010
I believe that many of us have had the experience of being in a conversation or social situation in which we lacked self-possession. When after it was over we thought to ourselves, darn it! Why didn’t I think to say this…or that…. Why didn’t I make this point? I should have said…. So what has […]
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Doing Nothing
“Doing nothing” is a fundamental principle in teaching the Alexander Technique. This odd idea about DOING NOTHING confuses many pupils; it is in fact a habit that the Alexander Technique can help one to develop. In our physicality and movement, “doing nothing” can result in buoyancy. What F.M. Alexander says about this is that in […]
Continue to Full Post...This is Part I of an ongoing series on “Directions,” one of the basic premises of the Alexander Technique. Ah yes quite a wonderful topic. This will span several blog posts I am sure but let me start with this: We are always directing ourselves all the time, but it is all done unconsciously or […]
Continue to Full Post...This is Part II of an ongoing series on “Directions,” one of the basic premises of the Alexander Technique. Everything we get in the Alexander Technique and in life is the result of a process of direction. There is no result without a process behind it. If there could be such a thing we would […]
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Coping Well: The Path to Poise
Coping well. This is what we can do easily when we are feeling well with ourselves, and what the Alexander Technique can teach us. When I think about well-being I think about being in a frame of mind and state of being where no matter what I am dealing with, no matter how sudden or […]
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Worrying and the Habits Based on Fear
One of the aims of the Alexander Technique is to bring our unconscious habits into our awareness, so that choice may enter in. Over excited Fear Reflexes and the state of what we call “nerves” afflict the majority of humans. In greater and greater numbers, people are taking drugs to calm their nerves and medicate their anxieties. There are […]
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