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How Can The Alexander Technique Help? How Does It Work?
Use the Alexander Technique. There isn't one moment when you can't use the Alexander Technique. You can decide in any instant to call on it, and it answers. It always answers the call because you are the Alexander Technique; you embody it and it embodies you. You are teaching and treating yourself with the Alexander [...]
Just do it. Just think it.
How many times have we heard these phrases? "Just think it" is frequently heard during Alexander Technique lessons, and "Just do it" is heard everywhere else. (Thank you Nike.) Both phrases are valuable, or unhelpful, depending upon intent, timing, and intensity. And, what do we mean by "just"? Just do it. "Just " is commonly [...]
The Alexander Technique And Exercising
As Alexander Technique teachers and students know, there are no right positions, only right principles. Let's add: There are no right movements, only right principles. Jogging, sit-ups, push-ups, and pull-ups aren't intrinsically good or bad. It's not the what of what we do, it's the how. The Alexander Technique teaches how to move in an optimal way-whatever we're doing. The benefits derived from proper exercise are well-documented. Just exercise some common sense and apply the principles of the Alexander Technique. Use the Alexander Technique before, during, and after exercising.
End-gaining becomes End-losing
The Alexander Technique end-gaining is gaining your end without regard to how you gain your end; how you reach your goal, how you do everything, to achieve anything. We think of what, but ignore how. We leave the present moment, and try to loft ourselves towards the end, skipping over time. Many of us do [...]
