Give up what you hold insomuch as what you hold has a hold on you.

“I hold,” is a literary way of saying, “I think.” “I maintain”—hold strong in my hands— has the same sense. What we hold in our minds, we hold in our bodies, and vice versa. Would you like to become a better student or teacher of the Alexander Technique, a freer human being? Give up some of those antiquated holds, grudges, prejudices against your colleagues. Give up what you hold insomuch as what you hold has a hold on you. Have I arrived at this goal? Far from it. But may every day bring me and you a little closer to the realization that what we hold to be true about others we make true in our selves. The Alexander Technique. Could it be a practice of forgiveness? I hold that it can