{"id":41102,"date":"2012-02-28T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41102"},"modified":"2012-02-28T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:38:09","slug":"why-is-change-so-slow-in-alexander-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41102","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Change So Slow In Alexander Lessons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started taking Alexander Technique lessons in 2008, I became frustrated that change was so slow.<\/p>\n<p>I remained frustrated for a couple of years until I finally felt at ease.<\/p>\n<p>In <A HREF=\"http:\/\/alexandertalk.com\/gradualchanges\/gradualchanges.mp3\">this podcast<\/a>, Alexander teachers Robert Rickover and Eileen Troberman discuss the rate of change.<\/p>\n<p>A 20 year old kid asked <A HREF=\"http:\/\/marjoriebarstow.com\/\">Marj Barstow<\/a> why did he have to keep coming back to workshops. Why couldn&#8217;t he just get it more quickly? And Marj told him, your body couldn&#8217;t take it.<\/p>\n<p>Eileen: &#8220;People can not change fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recognize ourselves by our tension. Our tension patterns are what feels like us to us. Without that, we don&#8217;t feel like us. It takes a while to realize that that is not us, it is just tension.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started taking Alexander Technique lessons in 2008, I became frustrated that change was so slow. I remained frustrated for a couple of years until I finally felt at ease. In this podcast, Alexander teachers Robert Rickover and Eileen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41102\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102","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=41102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41104,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102\/revisions\/41104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}