Bagger and all, For all the effective, established, and emerging techhniques that continue to come across our paths the secret to complete control over mechanical function comes down to creating a balance of muscular tension around your joints (and the spine is a collection of 27) and reprogrogrammig your body to comply with your mental requests. It gets really complicated when your life movements have created movement patterns that aren't compatable with your mechanical capability. If you could negotiate between your muscular components the proper agonist / antagonist relationship to keep the spine neutral you would have accomplished proper and positive involuntary reactions to any physical request your mind desires. Now there's the trick. Every single day with almost every single client we are working on this physical relationship. If you can accomplish it in voluntary and controled conditions then your body will learn (over time) to choose that same preferential behavior in conditions that are less controled, like walking, and playing golf, and sitting at a desk, and everything else you can think of.
The simplest secret I can offer, second only to the fact that people that use the rhythm method are usually called parents, is that you need to learn to feel your bodies movements and interrupt the neurological and mechanical failures that contribute to the demise of your function.
Vickie, that was marvelously vague! The most important thing I learned from Alexander method was how to stand up from a sitting position without grabbing the arm of the chair! Once I could do this I "got" what the thing was all about.
The most important thing I learned from Alexander method was how to stand up from a sitting position without grabbing the arm of the chair! Once I could do this I "got" what the thing was all about.
Hybrid Mode
