The Alexander Technique for Stress Reduction
Soft focus. A wider view. The bigger picture. Draw back. The Alexander Technique for stress reduction. Non-doing the Alexander Technique for stress reduction. Back off. Hold up. Pause, wait, stop, relax, ease up with the Alexander Technique. Breathe, chill. Lengthen. Widen. Step back and see the whole rather than just the parts. Easy does it. Alexander Technique for stress in New York City, or other big cities. Sometimes too much involvement can draw us in, and down, collapsing into ourselves and stressing us out. Too much involvement; too much riding on it. Even our jaw muscles tighten and shorten when we are stressing out. Too important, as if it’s life or death. Permanent startle response (tense your neck, lift your shoulders and keep them up there, always). Computers and cell phones and blackberries makes us want to lean in, any way we know how; usually by shrinking, compressing, collapsing. Breathing shallows. We get stressed, and then we stay stressed.
Stress and tension happens someplace; maybe the workplace, then anyplace, then everyplace; from sometimes to all the time. Then it becomes “that’s the way I am”, or, “I’m a tense person”, or “my shoulders are always tense.” We solidify it. Our habits may become our destiny. The Alexander Technique helps us change unwanted habits. The Alexander Technique for stress.
The Alexander Technique Stress, Computer Posture,
Computer use challenges the Alexander Technique. Even while just surfing, for fun, we get drawn in down towards the screen. Even if the screen is higher we collapse down in front as our head rotates back and down as we look up. We’re working way more than necessary for just sitting. This isn’t the beneficial kind of muscular use either. This is the bad ‘cramping’ kind of musculoskeletal work. Since we’re so absorbed in what we’re doing, we may not notice the extra stress until much later, though it’s never too late. Notice what you’re doing with your neck and shoulders right now. Is your neck poking toward the screen? Use the principles of the Alexander Technique for stress reduction.
Using the computer at work is even more challenging, because now we’ve added outside mental stresses including bosses, co-workers, deadlines etc. No wonder there’s so much neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, carpal tunnel, and tension headaches in and away from the workplace, sometimes ‘miraculously’ going away when we’re on vacation. The problem is that most of us can’t be on vacation permanently. We have to learn to deal.
Alexander Technique. Soft focus. A wider view. The big picture. Wide-angle vision. Draw back. Back off. Hold up. Easy does it. Breathe. Use the Alexander Technique for stress reduction.
Mark Josefsberg-Alexander Technique NYC
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