Category: Basic Premises of the Alexander Technique

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The Use of Time, Part 1

In my last blog I wrote about time and the perception many of us have that we never have enough of it. But how many of us really use time

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Time Quiet Stopping

Why do so many of us believe we have no time? Isn’t this interesting? Think of your usual week. Isn’t it true that it seems to fly away; that at

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Stupidity in Living

In F.M. Alexander’s last book, The Universal Constant in Living, there is a chapter entitled “Stupidity in Living.” This title has always amused me as it gets directly to the issue

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Sixth Sense

“Facing a thing that puts you wrong, and dealing with it differently.” This was what F. M. Alexander said his work was fundamentally all about. Imagine a person who flies

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Man, Know Thy Needs

By Stella Weigel “Man, know thyself” is an old axiom, but in my opinion the more fundamental one is “Man, know thy needs.” Of course, it may be contended that

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Ends and Means

In this article below, Aldous Huxley, a long time friend and pupil of FM Alexander, encapsulates the essence of Alexander’s work. It is never about “posture;” it is not about being

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Sending Presents

By Stella Weigel Having eaten cake which caused her to grow to a tremendous height, Alice exclaims: ‘I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about

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An Education

by Stella Weigel Alexander could not have been clearer: “In those cases where the psycho-physical mechanism is imperfect and functioning more or less inadequately, we cannot expect the best results

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A Few Gems from Man’s Supreme Inheritance

Part 1: The Premise In this first book Man’s Supreme Inheritance, written in 1910, F.M. Alexander argues that we now struggle in all kinds of ways (social, economic, legal, physical,

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Stopping

by Stella Weigel In Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual, FM Alexander provides the following illustration: A seven-year-old boy was given an aptitude test designed to measure “control.” The test