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Basic Premises of Alexander Technique

Conscious vs. Subconscious: A Conflictive State

“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 […]

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Performance & Potential

Kinesthesia Part II: How Our Thinking Makes It So

Hamlet:  Denmark’s a prison. (…) Rosencrantz:  We think not so, my lord. Hamlet:  Why then ’tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare, HAMLET (II, ii) In the first article on this topic, we looked at some of what Alexander went through, and what […]

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