{"id":43335,"date":"2012-04-23T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43335"},"modified":"2012-04-24T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T08:20:12","slug":"i-sometimes-fear-im-not-a-good-representative-of-the-alexander-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43335","title":{"rendered":"I Sometimes Fear I’m Not A Good Representative Of The Alexander Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wear the uniform of the Alexander teacher<\/a>. I wear the little hat and the fringes. I have the Alexander name. I abstain from the forbidden foods and observe the sacred holidays.<\/p>\n

Despite my joy in playing dress-up, when the rubber hits the road, I’m pretty slovenly in upholding the sacred precepts of observation, inhibition and direction. <\/p>\n

When I didn’t have a job, it was easy for me to lie on my back in active rest and to listen to learned Robert Rickover discourses<\/a> and to imagine that I was pretty much the epitome of the F.M. Alexander<\/a> way.<\/p>\n

Then I took a job. A real job. Not an Alexander job. A job in the real world doing worldly things with worldly people. And then how quickly did I forget to inhibit. How quickly and unthinkingly did I respond to stimuli and soon I was regaling people with tales of my life in the industry and how I worked with all the legends and the time the director told me to give him a FIP and instead I gave him the real thing.<\/p>\n

I had a teacher who said I was just looking for a way to identify myself in the universe. I wasn’t the real deal. I didn’t walk the talk. Sure, I took days off commemorating the Work’s birth, death and resurrection, but in my day to day behavior, I did not exhibit the grace that goes with the uniform. <\/p>\n

I don’t have much of a core, so I grasp for traditions to steady myself and in the process despoil everything good I touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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