By F. Matthias Alexander, John Dewey
ISBN-10: 0913111295
ISBN-13: 9780913111291
The international recognized vintage by means of the originator of the Alexander Technique
Frederick Matthias Alexander was once born in Tasmania in 1869. In his twenties, he turned a certified reciter of dramatic items. After nearly thoroughly wasting his voice he pioneered a mode of bettering the 'use' of his physique musculature in all positions and hobbies and cured his vocal difficulties with no clinical aid.
Alexander then realised that the majority humans stood, sat and moved in a faulty demeanour and that wrong 'use of the self' can be the reason for a lot human affliction. He moved to London and proven a faculty, publishing a number of books and reaching good fortune, with thoughts from recognized contemporaries reminiscent of Aldous Huxley and Sir Stafford Cripps. Alexander died in 1955 yet his 'principle' lives on in the course of the paintings of many academics of his process.
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It is not the degree of " willing " or " trying," but the way in which the energy is directed, that is going to make the " willing " or " trying " effective. The Golfer Who Cannot Keep His Eyes On the Ball 39 attained in the way desired {for instance, the golfer will not make a good stroke). In most people to-day the direction of the use of their mechanisms is not reasoned out, but instinctive, and in cases where this instinctive direction leads to faulty use, the connected series of acts preliminary to the gaining of any end will be brought about by a series of instinctive directions operating through faulty use1 of the mechanisms, so that a series of faulty acts will be the result.
Evolution of a Technique 23 (2) project in their sequence the directions for the primary control which I had reasoned out as being best for the purpose of bringing about the new and improved use of myself in speaking, and (3) continue to project these directions until I believed I was sufficiently au fait with them to employ them for the purpose of gaining my end and speaking the sentence. At this moment—the moment that had always proved critical for me because it was then that I tended to revert to my wrong habitual use—I would change my usual procedure, and (4) while still continuing to project the directions for the new use I would stop and consciously reconsider my first decision, and ask myself, " Shall I after all go on to gain the end I have decided upon and speak the sentence ?
And the experience I gained in maintaining the new manner of use while going on to gain some other end or refusing to gain my original end, helped me to maintain the new use on those occasions when I decided at the critical moment to go on after all and gain my original end and speak the sentence. This was further proof that I was becoming able to defeat any influence of that habitual wrong use in speaking to which my original decision to " speak the sentence " had been the stimulus, and that my conscious, reasoning direction was at last dominating the unreasoning, instinctive direction associated with my unsatisfactory habitual use of myself.
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