First of all the Alexander Technique is not a therapy. It is a learning method that may have therapeutic benefits.
When you learn how to recognize your own habit patterns of movement that interfere with good functioning and balance…you have a choice. Either to stay in the “same old familiar habitual soup” that causes tension/pain or allowing yourself to delicately move into lengthening and widening throughout your whole body…i.e. head leading body to follow. This is a process of non-doing, much like Eugen Herrigel describes in his seminal book, Zen and the Art of Archery.
We are basically a “self-repairing mechanism”, when you consciously learn how to let go of unnecessary tension your body will right itself which can be very healing. When you take care of the wrong, the right will take care of itself. Our linear mind cannot figure out the right thing to do, even though this is our usual approach to life.
However, we have the ability to “watch the program” of our conditioned thinking and through a process of subtraction and deconstruction allow change within our whole being.
Michael frederick
When you learn how to recognize your own habit patterns of movement that interfere with good functioning and balance…you have a choice. Either to stay in the “same old familiar habitual soup” that causes tension/pain or allowing yourself to delicately move into lengthening and widening throughout your whole body…i.e. head leading body to follow. This is a process of non-doing, much like Eugen Herrigel describes in his seminal book, Zen and the Art of Archery.
We are basically a “self-repairing mechanism”, when you consciously learn how to let go of unnecessary tension your body will right itself which can be very healing. When you take care of the wrong, the right will take care of itself. Our linear mind cannot figure out the right thing to do, even though this is our usual approach to life.
However, we have the ability to “watch the program” of our conditioned thinking and through a process of subtraction and deconstruction allow change within our whole being.
Michael frederick
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