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Category Archives: Alexander Technique
Decoding The Alexander Technique (7-4-23)
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Feelings, recovery and the Alexander Technique (12-5-21)
Cross-dressing in my sister’s clothes while mine are in the wash:
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Improve oxygen uptake in the blood – Patrick McKeown
I have some disagreements. * It is not a good idea to deliberately take a breath. It should be involuntary. The more you manipulate your breathing, the more interfering tension habits you’ll develop that will reduce the quality of your … Continue reading
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The Body Keeps Score
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: * The most natural way for human beings to calm themselves when they are upset is by clinging to another person. This means that patients who … Continue reading
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Let’s Learn Alexander Technique!
http://alexander90210.com: Alexander Technique helps us to become aware of how we respond to stimuli and it shows us how to let go of those responses that don’t serve us. For instance, many people get stuck in the fight-or-flight reflex (head … Continue reading
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The Use Of The Self
Johnie comments: It took me the best part of 15 years to figure out direction and inhibition – everything I needed to know was in “Use Of The Self” which is the first AT book I purchased years ago. I … Continue reading
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery II
Here are some excerpts from this 2016 book: From at least a dozen people, including actors, writers, and musicians, I’d heard that the Alexander Technique had made a big difference in their lives. Among the well-known adherents were Kenneth Branagh, … Continue reading
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Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
Friends that went to high school with Luigi Mangione said What keeps coming up is a back surgery that “changed everything” for him and he went “absolutely crazy.” This checks out with his GoodReads history and the X-Ray in his … Continue reading
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Staying Free Of Crippling Pain Requires The Maintenance Of My Spiritual/Physical/Psychological Condition
About six months ago, my back went out on me and I was bedridden for three days. During the first two days, I almost called 9-1-1 several times because it was a herculean task to stand up and to seat … Continue reading
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Recovery
When I collapsed into six years of largely bedridden Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) between 21-27 (1988-1994), my peers fled from me (while most people in the second half displayed considerable empathy towards me). I gradually realized that fear of illness … Continue reading
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