This e book, An Alexander Method Strategy to Organ Method, is printed in a PDF format. It is vitally detailed and sensible, and it offers you the bodily instruments it is advisable to take the boundaries off of your capability to create the correct organ method you need with out sacrificing your physique.
This e book can be on the market on all AMAZON web sites in a KINDLE format.
Positioned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
A really very long time in the past once I was enjoying guitar live shows, I got here up a kinder approach for me to memorize items for the live performance. I’d play a chunk 50 occasions, earlier than I examined whether or not I had memorized the music or not.
It labored fairly nicely. I wasn’t stressing about getting the piece memorized, and I discovered after 50 repetitions I used to be starting to get the piece memorized. So I performed it 50 extra occasions with out testing my reminiscence, and I had memorized much more of the piece.
This essay isn’t about this explicit course of I used, however about what was happening in my thoughts as I did the repetitions.
I made a decision that it didn’t matter the place my thoughts was as I performed, so long as I did the enjoying. I allowed my thoughts to wander, and figured I’d get the piece memorized anybody.
Altering course right here:
I’ve a consumer who memorizes simply, however at all times has issues when he performs for me. He forgets the place he’s within the piece. I requested him what’s happening, and he mentioned his thoughts was eager about issues he must do, has performed, ought to have performed, and so on.
This obtained me to considering.
We’ve minds which are wandering in all places, and WE’RE STILL ABLE TO PLAY A PIECE OF MUSIC WELL, OR RUN WELL, OR GOLF WELL.
This appears problematic to me, and possibly it’s not an issue, if we’re not making ourselves responsible or afraid of what we’ve performed or needs to be doing. This implies damaging feelings, worry and/or guilt, are usually not interfering with the exercise.
Besides, by some means I feel this can be a downside, if we’re not absolutely current in an exercise that requires nice method and/or memorizing.
It’s like studying a web page of a ebook, and also you’re so distant, you don’t even know what you’ve learn.
IF YOU DO SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARILY WELL AND RELY ONLY ON MEMORY TO GET IT DONE, AND YOU’RE NOT PRESENT, THEN YOU’VE MISSED THE JOY OF THE MOMENT.
YOU CAN ONLY REWARD YOURSELF WITH HOW MASTERFULLY YOU’VE DONE WHAT YOU’RE DOING OR WON, GIVEN YOU MISSED THE JOY OF THE PERFORMANCE, WHETHER IN MUSIC OR A SPORT.
Being completely current and centered on what you’re doing modifications what?
On the very least, it reveals you you will be completely conscious within the second, and your thoughts leaping round isn’t at all times calling the photographs.
I consider there’s something life alteringly profound once you notice you will be current for lengthy intervals of time, and never must be pulled in all places by a thoughts by no means fairly capable of focus.
IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PRESENT WITH A QUIET MIND AND IN JOY FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.
TRY IT, YOU’LL LIKE IT.