I’ve never been a good speller. When I was about to graduate from high school and head off to university, our class was given a standardized test to measure our abilities across in a number of key areas. I scored … Continue reading →
I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig in the mid-1970s, shortly after it was published and achieved instant fame. It may be the most popular philosophy book ever written, with over five million copies sold. … Continue reading →
In my previous post, Sex and the Alexander Technique – Part 1, I provided an overview of what was available on this topic 20 years ago. Slim pickings, to say the least! Fortunately for all of us, the situation is … Continue reading →
…if Alexander came to spend some time with you? That’s F. Matthias Alexander, of course, developer of the Alexander Technique. Country music lovers may recognize the question as a variant of the profound query – one I actually thought about … Continue reading →
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle I stumbled upon this quote in a Toronto health magazine when I was teaching there recently, and I have been … 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 →
Men go forth to marvel at the heights of mountains and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at … Continue reading →
In his final novel, Island, Aldous Huxley wrote about the adventures of a shipwrecked Englishman on Pala, an imaginary island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The society on this island had evolved to the point where there was universal economic … Continue reading →
In my previous blog, To Outsource or to Insource, That is the Question – Part 2, I wrote about the unique self-investigation process F. Matthias Alexander, the developer of the Alexander Technique, went through to solve his voice problem. Outsourcing … Continue reading →