{"id":50566,"date":"2013-09-01T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50566"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:36:56","slug":"what-has-the-alexander-technique-done-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50566","title":{"rendered":"What Has The Alexander Technique Done For Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Alexander Technique teachers are kind and considerate. They enjoy devoting themselves to a helping profession. They&#8217;re rarely provocateurs. <\/p>\n<p>What happened to me? What has the Alexander Technique done for me? I&#8217;m obviously an odd ball in the profession.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m much calmer since my Alexander lessons, hmm, perhaps it doesn&#8217;t come across!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like I have taken a chill pill and then decided to let it rip nonetheless, but with a tad more freedom and less compulsion.<br \/>\nI still feel driven to provoke.<br \/>\nI tried for a while to keep things chill to get along with the AT community but then I just gave up on that and decided to do my own thing.<br \/>\nI badly wanted to teach the Technique but I tried so hard and had so little success, that I decided I&#8217;d go back to saying what I wanted and damn the consequences.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t speak this way in the classroom or in connection with the Technique.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m very much unfinished, in every way, including with the AT.<br \/>\nI find myself getting up at 2 am to check if I&#8217;ve lost a FB friend (many block or unfriend me for obvious reasons). I have an anxious attachment style.<br \/>\nIt took AT for me to learn to say to myself, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be gentle with myself this weekend.&#8221; I&#8217;m awkwardly learning to be a better friend to myself.<br \/>\nAll attempts to see myself professionally as anything other than a writer has not worked. They just don&#8217;t take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Alexander Technique teachers are kind and considerate. They enjoy devoting themselves to a helping profession. They&#8217;re rarely provocateurs. What happened to me? What has the Alexander Technique done for me? I&#8217;m obviously an odd ball in the profession. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50566\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50566","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=50566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50567,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50566\/revisions\/50567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}