This e-book, The Launch of Behavior and Concern: The Alexander Approach as a Means to Letting Go of the Bodily and Emotional Habits that Block Non secular Progress, is printed in a PDF format. It seems at doing the Alexander Approach with love.
This e-book can also be on the market on all AMAZON web sites in a KINDLE format.
Positioned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
Focal dystonia seems to be an involuntary motion, a neurological drawback, however is normally a deeply realized dangerous behavior that seems to be completely out of the musician’s or athlete’s management.
As an Alexander Approach trainer, what’s it that I do when a musician or athlete involves me with a physique motion that defies the performer’s or athlete’s management and method?
WE SLOW THINGS DOWN ENOUGH, SO THAT THE MUSICAL PERFORMER OR ATHLETE SEES THE POTENTIAL OF GAINING CONTROL OVER WHAT APPEARS TO BE TOTALLY OUT OF THE PERFORMER’S OR ATHLETE’S CONTROL.
An instance could be the primary finger of a guitarist’s proper hand that has a lifetime of its personal, a motion of its personal, what’s labeled as focal dystonia, and isn’t transferring the identical as the remainder of the fingers of the proper hand.
By the point the guitarist involves me, she or he could have tried the whole lot from steel hand contraptions to Botox.
So, this implies the ordinary uncontrolled actions of the primary finger are believed to be pathological, which suggests the guitarist won’t ever actually ever use the primary finger effectively. This might not be true.
If the performer is dedicated to regaining management of the finger, then she or he has an opportunity.
This implies defining what nice proper hand method is for the classical or flamenco guitarist, or for some other instrument just like the piano or violin or for the athlete runner. My expertise with most performers and athletes is their beliefs of what nice method is are fairly obscure or are too inflexible.
So, we make clear what’s the finest most consumer pleasant method for the instrument or voice or sport and proceed to internalize it.
This could go fairly rapidly, if the shopper accepts what I’ve to say about nice physique use and posture and method are true. That is all the time a collaboration between me and what the shopper defines as nice method, so we’re not butting heads.
The final revamping of the performer’s or athlete’s method can go extra easily, after I ask that the primary finger of the guitarist or that the proper leg of the athlete do what the opposite fingers are doing or what the opposite leg is doing, at a sluggish tempo.
However the first finger could revert again to being uncontrolled, as she or he performs sooner and sooner, making the musician really feel like she or he is backtracking.
What do I imply?
Up till this level at a really sluggish tempo the guitarist is seeing the primary finger transfer like the opposite fingers for the primary time in years, and is admittedly feeling constructive about getting previous focal dystonia. However normally at the next tempo, the dystonia kicks again in and the performer feels helpless to do what she or he needs. Right here is the place I sluggish the whole lot again down once more, and actually help the performer in accepting and believing she or he will ultimately have the ability to do what they need at excessive tempos.
However there’s extra to it than telling the guitarist or the pianist or athlete that the wheels don’t must fall of the wagon at excessive speeds.
One of the best method for devices that require that fingers play the instrument, is that the fingers play by way of the strings or into the keys on the velocity of the reflexes, even at sluggish tempos (plenty of time between notes).
What this does is about up the situations for quick and clear enjoying, relatively than later having the fingers go sooner at greater speeds. So, that even enjoying slowly is trusting the fingers to play by way of the strings or into the keys of a piano or French horn reflexively. This implies because the performer performs sooner and sooner, they are going to already be used to being “uncontrolled whereas in management” (enjoying reflexively).
Finally a musician or athlete should settle for that their “focal dystonia” might not be pathological and never insurmountable, and that actually dangerous habits will be overcome with observe and religion and inhibition and the very best method.