by Robert Rickover The Use of the Self is F. M. Alexander’s third, and shortest, book. It is generally seen as his most readable. With the help of AI I’ve put together key passages, and provided a little context for … Continue reading →
I stumbled onto this photo of Annie Oakley and couldn’t stop thinking about the amazing ability it must take to hit a target behind you, something she did in all her performances. As any marksman will tell you, their profession … Continue reading →
F. Matthias Alexander, the developer of the Alexander Technique, believed that if we want to improve the way we function, we need to make the best use of our ability to think. Only then can we engage in what he … Continue reading →
Suppose a man starts out to reach a certain destination and comes to a place where the road branches into two. Not knowing the way, he takes the wrong road of the two and gets lost. He asks the way … Continue reading →
My friend and colleague, John Macy, attended the recent Alexander Technique Congress and chose that venue to do a little research about which of F. M. Alexander’s books teachers had read, when when they read them. In addition to being … Continue reading →
Answer #1: It’s the title – almost! – of F. Matthias Alexander’s first book, Man’s Supreme Inheritance – originally published in 1910 and republished in an expanded version in 1918 with an added sub-title, Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation … Continue reading →
Conscious Control in Relation to Human Evolution in Civilization by F. Matthias Alexander. I suspect this title (I’ll shorten in to CC) seems vaguely familiar to most Alexander Technique teachers and serious students because of it’s similarity to Constructive Conscious … Continue reading →
One day Mind and Body were having a chat about the challenges of their relationship. Body was annoyed that Mind had wandered while they were walking down the street, causing Body to hit a lamp post. “If you hadn’t put … Continue reading →
Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything – Nellie Bly In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of … Continue reading →
In life we generally rely on our subconscious to direct our movement. We stand, sit, walk, and bend automatically with no thought to how we move. Our subconscious habitually does it for us, and it dominates us so that we … Continue reading →