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Situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
A number of weeks in the past a guitarist got here to me from out of city, and we did 18 hours of Alexander Approach classes in three days.
She has extreme focal dystonia in her left hand. At any time when she approached the guitar neck together with her left hand, her fingers locked up and her actions turned spasmotic.
By the point she left, she was starting to see that she may acquire management over her left hand, in order that at instances the actions have been way more light.
I knew we couldn’t utterly overcome the focal the dystonia in three days, nevertheless it was a starting.
An apart right here: She raised the query as as to whether there was neurological injury to the hand. In fact I couldn’t diagnose this, however we did check out different actions, like utilizing the pc keyboard.
We discovered she may sort completely simply on the keyboard together with her left hand, so we proceeded with the belief the focal dystonia was the results of an excessive amount of stress and likewise worry, as soon as the lack of management began.
I not too long ago obtained an electronic mail from her saying there was some enchancment.
I had her switching the guitar from hand at hand whereas we labored, to have her proper hand reveal play with out the lack of management.
In her electronic mail, she mentioned though the left hand was higher, it nonetheless jumped to the guitar neck completely uncontrolled at instances. The arm twitched, throwing the hand towards the neck and the fingers locking up.
I considered what she had written. All the things she mentioned she was doing was starting to repay, however there was one thing about the best way she talked about her left hand hand that bothered me.
SHE DESCRIBED HER HAND AND ARM SPASMING TO THE NECK, AS IF IT HAD A MIND OF ITS OWN.
That is counter to the Alexander Approach precept that the thoughts can have Aware Management over the voluntary musculature.
Aware Management within the Alexander Approach teaches an individual to regain management over the voluntary musculature, by giving orders of allowance to a muscle or group of muscular tissues, that don’t reply to the particular person.
In different phrases, you inform your neck to cease hurting, it doesn’t, so that you come to imagine the neck has a thoughts of its personal. This will occur all around the physique.
So, I emailed the guitarist again, that every thing she was doing is working and can finally free her of the focal dystonia.
BUT THERE WAS ONE THING SHE NEEDED TO REEVALUATE, AND THAT WAS HER WORDS SAYING HER HAND AND ARM WERE NOT UNDER HER CONTROL.
THEY WEREN’T, as a result of she had come to imagine over a lifetime the physique does its personal factor at instances muscularly.
IT DOESN’T!
Should you come to imagine the physique has a thoughts of its personal, then you’ll not have management over your voluntary musculature, since you imagine you don’t.
We like to be proper! So proper, that we’ll show we’re proper even when we’re fallacious and it doesn’t assist us.
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATES OVER AND OVER, THAT IF WE TELL OUR MUSCULATURE WHAT WE WANT, AND IT’S POSSIBLE, THEN WE WILL REGAIN CONTROL OVER THE MUSCULATURE WE BELIEVED WAS DOING ITS OWN THING.
Whenever you imagine that you simply don’t have aware management over a muscle, then that perception is Aware Management turned the wrong way up.
I requested the guitarist to simply accept she had Aware Management over her left hand and arm, to simply accept the hand and arm weren’t unbiased of her thoughts, and to hold in there gently ordering her hand and arm to do what she desires.
She obtained it.