Tag: fear reflex

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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

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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

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Watching and Wondering

By Stella Weigel I am small in physical build and height. I have been the smallest student in my school throughout my three years of Alexander teacher training. But until

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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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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

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Asthma Management with the Alexander Technique

“I do not claim to have discovered any new method of breathing, but to understand the only true one- Nature’s” – F. M. Alexander Asthma gives a feeling that you

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Stop & Think: A Radical Approach to Life

Making a change for the better? You will have to stop and think and self-observe—what were my means before? How was I trying to get what I wanted? What was