I have been writing about debauched Kinesthesia (here, here, and here) and there is an aspect to this topic that rules most of our habitual reactions. Let’s call it the blind spots in our thinking and in our perceptions. Of course we are unaware of the blind spots otherwise they would not be blind spots. […]
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The Need to Be Right
By Stella Weigel The King’s Speech, based on events from the life of King George VI of England, has taken the world of cinema by storm. The film shows “Bertie” struggle to overcome his stammer and find his voice, in order to rally the free world to resist Nazi aggression. The film illustrates how a […]
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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 involves an electronic apparatus with holes varying in size. His task was to touch the centers of the holes with a small, pencil-like, metal rod […]
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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 in the conveyance or the acquisition of knowledge.” (CCCI) My own education paid full testament to this in providing me with all the necessary tools […]
Continue to Full Post...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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