I caught myself.
I noticed and woke up from the “worrying” thing.
But this time I didn’t immediately try and change, snap out it, and fight the hook of habit. I just started noticing where I was.
Where are you right now?
Alexander Technique teacher extraordinaire Walter Carrington said that after you stop, “find out where you are, and where you ought to go.”
Where was I? I was down here. I was taking the bait, being pulled down by an invisible line. I was corkscrewing down and to the left. It was oh-so-wrong but it feIt oh-so-right, and not merely because it was habitual and comfortable. My contorted body nicely harmonized with what I was needlessly brooding about.
Be My Guest
Now woke, I decided to go with it and collapse down and left even further; as if I were telling myself–self, you want to go down and to the left? Be my guest, and let’s go further.
Freed-up neck
When I had enough, I led with my eyes, then my head, then my torso– and I spiraled up and to the right, then back to neutral. New world.
When you free up your neck and breath, you may realize that what you habitually worry about isn’t as solid and opaque as you think and feel. It’s contingent, flowing and two people can look at it from a different viewpoints and they’d both be right. Wayne Dyer says “when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.” Look at things with a free neck.
Mark Josefsberg– Alexander Technique NYC
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