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 […]
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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 […]
Continue to Full Post...In learning to do anything there is always an amount of worry and fear about doing it “right.” In F.M. Alexander’s teachings that question never comes up. In fact Alexander Technique teachers want you to be wrong. Alexander Technique teachers want you to not strive and to not work at things in your habitual ways […]
Continue to Full Post...A new means whereby we may become masters of ourselves. This is the fourth in a series of posts on “directions.” To recap here, first, to really become wonderful at doing anything, we have stop the self-sabotage and subconscious and semi-conscious habits (of thought and action) that derail us. Therefore, we have to see clearly […]
Continue to Full Post...“There is a constant conflict between the subconscious and conscious which is only sometimes vaguely recognized as a struggle between instinct or intuition, and the reasoning power of the mind.” F.M. Alexander According to F.M. Alexander, man must first learn to see that this struggle between the subconscious and conscious exists inside him; after that […]
Continue to Full Post...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 the end, you find that you have not stopped for one moment; that you never have enough time for yourself; never time for all the […]
Continue to Full Post...Previously (Time Stopping) 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 well? There is a very interesting connection between our thoughts about time, and those patterns of behavior that make us feel that we “don’t have enough […]
Continue to Full Post...In theThe Use of time, Part I, we looked at typical person in his work-a-day life, and got a sense of his dominant attitude toward time: the sense that he “didn’t have enough of it.” I said that there was an answer: mindfulness. Here we will explore what mindfulness might look like and how we might […]
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