Nick writes: Recently I noticed I was developing eyestrain, and my work involves heavy amounts of staring at computer screens. Using my LM knowledge I realised that I was ‘looking at’ the screens – like ‘me’ was buried somewhere inside my head looking through my eye sockets. So I shifted the way I did this …
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Can Alexander Technique Cure Depression?
David Gorman (a veteran Alexander Technique teacher who developed LearningMethods.com, writes: Of course, all of us who have had many experiences of change through the Alexander Technique know that a change in your manner of use does affect your mental and emotional state and your thinking. But the operative word is “affect”. A change to …
Wake Up!
If you want to learn something, I ask you to stand up and to walk around the room for 30 seconds juggling three imaginary balls while taking care not to bump into people or furniture. If you don’t want to learn anything, please stay seated, stay stuck in your habitual ways of doing things, after …
Leaving The Low Road
From Daniel Siegel’s book: Our instinctual survival responses to fight, flee, freeze, or even collapse may become activated on the low road and dominate our behavior. The body’s response may reveal these old instinctual reflexes in automatic patterns of response, such as tightened muscles in anger, an impulse to run away in fear, or a …
What Gives You The Greatest Pleasure?
I never cease to be amazed at how intrusive and clueless people can be (starting with myself). In an Orthodox shul, there are sections for men and women and yet many people ignore this, particularly the insane. If you don’t join with people and tune in to them before you talk to them, you’ll often …
Explore Your Beliefs Through Alexander Technique
Think about something you believe in strongly, say, that capital punishment is immoral. Feel the belief strongly as you sit at your computer reading this blog post. Then slowly stand up and then slowly sit down again and notice how sitting and standing affect the quality of your belief. As you fold and unfold your …
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How To Deal With The Anxious Child
Loren Shlaes writes: The anxious child treats many everyday activities as if he is experiencing them for the first time. He can’t easily adapt to novelty, and he can’t internalize routine. Long after the beginning of the school year, he enters the classroom and needs adult supervision and guidance to take off his coat, put …
What is Sensory Integration/Occupational Therapy?
Loren Shlaes writes: Occupational therapy assists people who for various reasons cannot meet their responsibilities and are not functioning at their highest potential. A child who is not succeeding in school and can’t meet the grownup’s expectations falls into this category.Sensory integration based occupational therapy can be very helpful to a child who is struggling …
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Freeing My Neck, Letting Go Of My Beliefs
I notice that the more I free my neck, the less I think. Instead, I am in the moment. Once I start thinking and reminiscing and believing, my neck and back tighten up. I find it impossible to have a belief without tightening up. Conversely, when I free my neck, all my beliefs disappear and …
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How the Alexander Technique can help with Physical and Emotional Healing
Ingrid Bacci tells Robert Rickover: “All of this work revolves around — how am I? Tension is about self-punitive behavior, which originates from feeling that I am not OK. I am dependent and I have to work to make myself OK. So then we try to control [and tense up].” “Everybody knows that we have …
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