This book, An Alexander Method Method to Psychotherapy, is printed in a PDF format. It explores the connection between bodily habits and beliefs that we dwell by.
This book can be on the market on all AMAZON web sites in a KINDLE format.
Situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
Once I was in coaching to turn out to be an Alexander Method trainer, there was a saying attributed to one of many senior lecturers.
NOTHING IS WORTH LOSING YOUR FRONT LENGTH OVER.
What did this imply?
Irrespective of the issue of the exercise, there is no such thing as a have to sacrifice your physique by hunkering right down to get it accomplished.
Let’s check out this.
Hunkering down is whenever you pull your head ahead and downward, shortening your neck, and curving your backbone ahead and down, as an expression of your intention to do what you’re doing, in a sport or taking part in a musical instrument, as finest you possibly can.
IT IS THIS INTENTION TO DO YOUR BEST AT WHATEVER THE ACTIVITY, THAT CAUSES MOST PEOPLE TO TENSE UP AND HUNKER DOWN.
It’s the worry of failure that causes most individuals to strive TOO exhausting.
I’m not addressing the worry you deliver to an essential exercise, however to point out you the way you are able to do what you’re doing by not harming the physique with rigidity and compression of the joints.
Most individuals see this hunkering down and tensing up as an excellent factor, that means you are attempting to do your finest.
CAN YOU DO YOUR BEST WITHOUT TENSION OR HUNKERING DOWN? YOU CAN ONLY DO YOUR BEST IF YOU DON’T TENSE UP AND HUNKER DOWN TO DO YOUR BEST.
What do I imply?
If an individual desires to do his or her finest in an exercise, THEN THEY CAN ONLY DO SO WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE TECHNIQUE OF THE ACTIVITY WITH POOR POSTURE (HUNKERING DOWN OR BEING RIDGIDLY UPRIGHT).
Rigidly upright will not be good posture. I’ll grant you it might seem like good posture, but it surely negatively impacts method, by slowing down ease of motion. It impairs the messaging and pace of your reflexes in taking part in a musical instrument or serving a tennis ball.
When an individual focuses on a dynamically launched absolutely upright posture mixed with a dynamically launched method, regardless of how intense the exercise is, you might be consciously selecting to do your best at a sport or musical instrument. You might be melding nice posture and nice method, in a manner that will get you out of the way in which of the pace of your reflexes.
GREAT TECHIQUE AND POSTURE BECOME INSEPARABLE, AND THE PERFORMANCE OR COMPETITION CAN BECOME EXTRAORDINARY WITHOUT WEAR AND TEAR TO YOUR BODY.
So, doing all your finest in a specialised exercise could be about consciously creating nice physique use and method, regardless of the extent of worry earlier than a contest or a efficiency.
IF YOUR BODY IS NOT EXHIBITING/MANIFESTING YOUR FEAR, THE EMOTIONAL FEAR MAY DROP AWAY IN A SPORTS COMPETITION OR A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE.
Then you definitely actually get to take pleasure in what you’re doing within the second!