Hi, I’m Luke. I’m an addict to clenching and pulling down.<\/p>\n
F.M. Alexander<\/a>, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change about my use, the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference. <\/p>\n The first step to recovery is to accept that we are powerless to inhibit our needless tension patterns and that as a result our lives have become unmanageable.<\/p>\n We come to believe that a power greater than ourselves will restore us to sanity. This Higher Power helps us to free our necks so our heads can release forward and up.<\/p>\n We’ve made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to this Higher Power.<\/p>\n We’ve made a searching and fearless inventory of our needless compression patterns.<\/p>\n We’ve admitted to our Alexander teacher the exact nature of our wrongs.<\/p>\n We’re entirely ready for our teacher to remove all defects of use.<\/p>\n We’ve humbly asked our teacher to remove all shortcomings.<\/p>\n We’ve made a list of all persons we’ve harmed through our needless use of unhelpful habitual postures of thinking, feeling and acting and become willing to make amends to all.<\/p>\n We’ve made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.<\/p>\n We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were stiff-necked we admitted it.<\/p>\n We sought through active rest and regular lessons to improve our use and to develop our inhibition.<\/p>\n Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all areas of our lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, I’m Luke. I’m an addict to clenching and pulling down. F.M. Alexander, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change about my use, the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know … Continue reading