{"id":35977,"date":"2011-08-15T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35977"},"modified":"2011-08-15T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:40:27","slug":"holding-down-the-body-to-prevent-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35977","title":{"rendered":"Holding Down The Body To Prevent Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk\/\">Psycho-therapist and Alexander Technique teacher Anthony Kingsley<\/a> <A HREF=\"http:\/\/alexanderaudio.com\/applications\/file2\/kingsley.mp3\">tells Robert Rickover<\/a>: &#8220;Alexander Technique develops capacities for stillness, non-reactivity and inhibition, the capacity to not rush ahead and finish people&#8217;s sentences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pupil can say, ahh, I know I&#8217;m really holding myself, I&#8217;m gripping my jaw, I&#8217;m tightening my neck as a way of not feeling anxious or sad. I might bite my upper lip to not cry. I might tighten my breathing to not feel alarmed. I may hold my shoulders hunched and compressed as a way of not feeling my own anger. Alexander Technique makes a direct link between emotions and physical manifestations of emotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psycho-therapist and Alexander Technique teacher Anthony Kingsley tells Robert Rickover: &#8220;Alexander Technique develops capacities for stillness, non-reactivity and inhibition, the capacity to not rush ahead and finish people&#8217;s sentences.&#8221; &#8220;The pupil can say, ahh, I know I&#8217;m really holding myself, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35977\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268,17382],"tags":[16394,27481,6933,19784,27482,27483],"class_list":["post-35977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique","category-psychology","tag-alexander-technique-teacher","tag-physical-manifestations","tag-psycho-therapist","tag-robert-rickover","tag-stillness","tag-upper-lip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35978,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977\/revisions\/35978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}