{"id":42278,"date":"2012-03-23T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42278"},"modified":"2012-03-23T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:25:30","slug":"how-the-alexander-technique-can-help-with-menstrual-cramps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42278","title":{"rendered":"How The Alexander Technique Can Help With Menstrual Cramps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of women feel cramping in their stomach when they&#8217;re on their period.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Marjorie Barstow helps a woman move out of the unnecessary clenching that exacerbates such pain:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0Mq3ItAspw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I get so impatient watching these slow-moving Marjorie Barstow videos. And the more impatient I feel, the more I tighten.<\/p>\n<p>Try to notice your own reactions to these videos. They&#8217;re filled with good information. If you&#8217;re too impatient to watch them comfortably, take a look at your own reactions and see if they&#8217;re serving you. See if you tightening in your impatience. What happens if you let that go?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had menstrual cramps but I&#8217;ve had a lot of stomach aches. At least I did before I learned Alexander Technique.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Do you have any thoughts on stomach aches?&quot; I ask my Alexander Technique teacher today.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When do you get them?&quot; he asks.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When I start worrying. I find myself clenching.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Well, what would you say to a friend with this problem?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t know.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You&#8217;d say that you&#8217;re probably moving down when it happens, pushing your stomach down, playing a loop of worrying thoughts, and you&#8217;re probably tipping your head back. So the solution is to flow up. You&#8217;re too smart of a guy for this. You know this.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Why do people throw up when under stress? Because they push down, they tip their head back, they catastrophize and the bile flows up.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of women feel cramping in their stomach when they&#8217;re on their period. In this video, Marjorie Barstow helps a woman move out of the unnecessary clenching that exacerbates such pain: I get so impatient watching these slow-moving Marjorie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42278\">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-42278","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\/42278","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=42278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42280,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42278\/revisions\/42280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}