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Situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
Just a few 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 might achieve management over her left hand, in order that at occasions the actions have been way more mild.
I knew we couldn’t utterly overcome the focal the dystonia in three days, however it was a starting.
An apart right here: She raised the query as as to whether there was neurological injury to the hand. After all I couldn’t diagnose this, however we did check out different actions, like utilizing the pc keyboard.
We discovered she might kind completely simply on the keyboard together with her left hand, so we proceeded with the idea the focal dystonia was the results of an excessive amount of pressure and likewise worry, as soon as the lack of management began.
I just lately received an e-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 how you can play with out the lack of management.
In her e-mail, she stated though the left hand was higher, it nonetheless jumped to the guitar neck completely uncontrolled at occasions. The arm twitched, throwing the hand towards the neck and the fingers locking up.
I thought of what she had written. Every little thing she stated she was doing was starting to repay, however there was one thing about the way in which 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 Acutely aware Management over the voluntary musculature.
Acutely 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 muscle mass, that don’t reply to the individual.
In different phrases, you inform your neck to cease hurting, it doesn’t, so that you come to consider the neck has a thoughts of its personal. This could occur all around the physique.
So, I emailed the guitarist again, that the whole lot 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 consider over a lifetime the physique does its personal factor at occasions muscularly.
IT DOESN’T!
Should you come to consider the physique has a thoughts of its personal, then you’ll not have management over your voluntary musculature, since you consider you don’t.
We like to be proper! So proper, that we’ll show we’re proper even when we’re unsuitable 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.
If you consider that you simply don’t have aware management over a muscle, then that perception is Acutely aware Management turned the wrong way up.
I requested the guitarist to just accept she had Acutely aware Management over her left hand and arm, to just accept the hand and arm weren’t impartial of her thoughts, and to hold in there gently ordering her hand and arm to do what she desires.
She received it.