{"id":41329,"date":"2012-03-07T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41329"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:58:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:58:13","slug":"the-power-of-negative-directions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41329","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Negative Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bodylearningblog.com\/the-power-of-negative-thinking\/\">Robert Rickover writes<\/a>: Most of us create excess tension somewhere in our bodies.  If you have a pretty good idea where you\u2019re habitually tightening up \u2013 could be your shoulders, your chest, your pelvis, whatever \u2013 you can use it for the little experiment below.  If you\u2019re not sure where to put your attention, put it on your neck.<\/p>\n<p>Now walk back and forth across the room.  When going in one direction, walk as you usually do.  When you walk in the other direction, softly think \u201cI am not tightening my (neck, shoulders \u2013 whatever region of your body you have chosen to experiment with)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cI am not\u201d part of this phrase is very important, but feel free to experiment with other words that mean something like \u201ctightening\u201d \u2013 maybe tensing, squeezing, compressing or any other similar word you like.  Feel free also to experiment with other activities you do \u2013 speaking, chopping vegetables, whatever.  Simply alternate between your usual way of doing them, and gently adding this self-directing phrase.<\/p>\n<p>And remember a key word here is softly \u2013 whichever version of the phrase you are use is best conveyed to yourself without any pressure, detailed instructions or expectations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Rickover writes: Most of us create excess tension somewhere in our bodies. If you have a pretty good idea where you\u2019re habitually tightening up \u2013 could be your shoulders, your chest, your pelvis, whatever \u2013 you can use it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41329\">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":[28807,27471,29161,28759,19784],"class_list":["post-41329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique","tag-chopping-vegetables","tag-excess-tension","tag-neck-shoulders","tag-negative-directions","tag-robert-rickover"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329","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=41329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}