How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery by Vineyard Missy

Author:Vineyard, Missy [Vineyard, Missy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2007-05-22T21:00:00+00:00

3. Try the sentence again. Say it slowly, with attention, with conscious awareness that the words have meaning and that your intention is clear. I want my neck to relax. Summoning meaning for our words is an act of trust. How does this happen? How can it affect us? Why does a word make us cry, grimace, or burst out laughing? How can the word “relax” create a change in the muscles of your neck? Neuroscientists cannot yet tell us exactly how this happens, but we can experience it and know that it is true.

Are these the best words for you to use as you inhibit? Try others. Experiment. Remember that the meaning cannot be forced, or made to perform on schedule. Repetition, lengthy but not mindless repetition, works wonders. So does patience. Say the words.Wait and do not worry. Allow change to take place within you.

Your objective is to become able to recognize when you are giving yourself inhibiting instructions in a blank, mindless sort of way, and when you are doing this consciously, with intent and clarity of meaning, presence of mind, and a genuine wish that their meaning will be received within you.

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