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Stress Reduction and Emotional Well-Being

We all get stressed.  And often, it seems as though this stress is imposed on us from the outside.  But the Alexander Technique helps us see that this is not the case.  Stress is really not something outside ourselves. It actually is all about how we are reacting to conditions, whether the conditions are created […]

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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 into uncontrolled fits of rage whenever things go badly for him.  Because he is habit-bound in his reaction, he will tend to bring about situations […]

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Hide or Seek, Part I: I Hear the Bell

This is a transcript of a speech given by Dorothea Wallis to STAT in the 1950s.  Wallis argues that, “However important the part of conscious thought and control in the Alexander Technique, they are only aspects of a whole personality and not independent entities … for education is a matter of the whole personality.” Note:  […]

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Hide or Seek, Part II: Emotion

This is a transcript of a speech given by Dorothea Wallis to STAT in the 1950s.  Wallis argues that, “However important the part of conscious thought and control in the Alexander Technique, they are only aspects of a whole personality and not independent entities … for education is a matter of the whole personality.” Note:  […]

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Hide and Seek, Part III: End-Gaining

This is a transcript of a speech given by Dorothea Wallis to STAT in the 1950s.  Wallis argues that, “However important the part of conscious thought and control in the Alexander Technique, they are only aspects of a whole personality and not independent entities … for education is a matter of the whole personality.” Note:  […]

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