Alexander Technique Career Success

Yesterday I wrote that undoing stressful thoughts can be integrated into your Service Product – a process which begins with your Self, but then you can also process with your students. To explore this with you, I reference Alexander’s story in undoing his habits, and relate that to my own experiences with this process… How do I “undo” the thought “something is wrong with me”? I use the same tools Alexander used to figure out his problem: first recognize the cause of my pain ; second gather information about it; third analyze that information; fourth experiment with giving up doing what I discovered I did; fifth develop from that a new set of thoughts that turn me around; sixth gain repeated experiences to build my confidence and ability to move in a new way. 1. Recognition: Can you isolate the thoughts that are causing you stress? When Alexander started out, he had no idea what caused his loss of voice. Often that is true with emotional pain...

W09.03 Integrating Alexander’s Ideas With Alexander Technique Practice This week I am focusing again on your Service Product: what kind of Alexander Technique session do you give to you? This will determine the kind of Alexander Technique you give to others. I am fascinated by deep enquiry about the Self – a topic I touched on by sharing my personal story yesterday. Is it possible that we can include this kind of enquiry in our ordinary Alexander Technique lessons? About this, I have a question which I will lay out today… When you read Alexander’s books, then look at an average Alexander Technique session today, for me there is a disconnect. On the one side are these lofty ideas that concern the evolution of human consciousness, on the other side we see a person bobbing up and down from a chair, or lying on a table whilst a teacher does “hands on”, often chatting about nothing in particular while they do it.  Somethin...