by admin | Aug 1, 2017 | Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Ballet, Choice, Creating space, Mindfulness, Uncategorized
Your torso wants to colonize your limbs, to pull them in and hold them close. To allow that without informed dissent is to live centripetally, in a destructive form of self-containment, a false security. You can choose to live more centrifugally, the limbs and head...
by admin | May 11, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Choice, Creating space, Meditation
We go to church or Schul, to mosque, meeting house, or desert to enlarge our tents, to change our perspective, realign ourselves with principle, reset our thinking. We leave these places of spirit breathing more fully, smiling more readily, our thinking regrouped....
by admin | Feb 16, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Choice
My wife, Susan, and I have a friend who worked for an international banking firm. He was a highly-placed executive who had open access to the CEO. He, our friend, was an ideas man. And every time he brought one of his ideas to the CEO the answer was an immediate and...
by admin | Oct 30, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Choice, Mindfulness, Self-disovery
F. M. Alexander, convinced that the Freudian thing was not going to be very long-lived, called his principle of mindful response, inhibition. Well, he may have been wrong about Freud, but he was spot on in his ideas on mindful waiting. Scientists the world over are...
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