{"id":38752,"date":"2011-12-11T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=38752"},"modified":"2011-12-11T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T00:44:04","slug":"how-is-alexander-technique-different-from-chiropractic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=38752","title":{"rendered":"How Is Alexander Technique Different From Chiropractic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mention my new <A HREF=\"http:\/\/alexander90210.com\">Alexander Technique teaching practice<\/a> to my friends, they keep asking me how is this different from what chiropractors do.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s easy. A chiropractor fixes you. Does stuff to you. Cracks you. You are passive. You lie on a table. You receive his treatment.<\/p>\n<p>I do none of that. I help you become aware of your habits (needless<br \/>\ncompression, tension) that will lead you to a chiropractor and the<br \/>\nlike.<\/p>\n<p>Another friend asks: &#8220;Is the Alexander Technique a physical manipulation or a mental consultation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Technique is cognitively directed movement. A way of noticing your<br \/>\nreactions to stimuli and letting go of the ones that don&#8217;t serve you<br \/>\n(usually reactions of unnecessary tension and compression). So it is<br \/>\nboth physical and mental because all movement starts first in the<br \/>\nmind&#8230; Actors, musicians and people in performance are the most<br \/>\nlikely to take lessons in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mention my new Alexander Technique teaching practice to my friends, they keep asking me how is this different from what chiropractors do. That&#8217;s easy. A chiropractor fixes you. Does stuff to you. Cracks you. You are passive. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=38752\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752","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=38752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38754,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752\/revisions\/38754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}