In the Alexander Technique, to inhibit is to do something as if you are not doing that thing.
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What is alexander technique?
Ans@alexander technique is a mindbody technique used to over write the bad dangerous habits with the good habits.
How to achieve this?
Ans@ f.m suggests since our body parts has faulty sense relatively with one another.
He suggests using neck head back legs arms whole parts.
He says that if we try DO them are relate them , then we are doing with old habitual tension only.
He says most of the Do it your self(DIY) may make more harm to the student with out proper knowledge of the technique,
But the good habits(good alex directions) can be only learned by the hands on guidance of an experienced teacher as a whole.
He suggests this procedure.
And he suggests,
after getting the experience under the teacher hands.
and with out doing
the student has to think in the selected daily activities like sit,bend,stand,walk stimulus activities only.
And the student knows when he is doing the technique?
And when he is not doing the technique or some thing else he is doing?
The student has choice, and he not try to do the right thing?
Then this becomes second nature for the student .
And f.m guarentees that, the end may not get today or tommorrow but one day it will be sure.
Is there any best way to (definition) describe ‘FORWARD AND UP’ of the head?
Other than,
a. Forward rotation of the head on the top of the spine.
B. Imagining a rod passing from the ears and the forward and up rotation of the head.
Is there any other way to describe this ‘FORWARD AND UP’ ?
Is there any best way to (definition) describe ‘FORWARD AND UP’ of the head?
Other than,
a. Forward rotation of the head on the top of the spine.
B. Imagining a rod passing from the ears and the forward and up rotation of the head.
Is there any other way to describe this experience?
Notice, a healthy coordinated human head,neck.
This person 99 percent ,not throws his head back and down,and he not shortens his neck in relative to the torso in his daily activities.
The important question to ask here is,
this naturally coordinated human dont know about the alexander technique.but still he is coordinated.
……………….
What alexander discovered?
Ans@ a healthy coordinated person not shortens his neck and not throws the head back and down.
If we do the same thing ,we will become healthy and coordinated.
But, doing this is not so much easy. And he developed a UNIQUE UNIQUE approach for the first time in the world.
Iam sure no technique matches this unique principles.
………….
Am i correct?
What is neck free?
Ans@ is not freeing the neck or relaxing the neck.
Is preventing the neck from stooping or preventing the shortening of the neck from the daily activities like sit,walk,standing,bending etc, so that the head goes forward and up and the torso moves from the hipjoints forward and backward.
Am i correct?
What is neck free?
Ans@ is not freeing the neck or relaxing the neck.
Is preventing the neck from stooping or preventing the shortening of the neck from the daily activities like sit,walk,standing,bending etc, so that the head goes forward and up and the torso moves from the hipjoints forward and backward.
The ‘YES’ movement@
……….
NOD your head ‘forward and up’ with a subtle(micron distance) movement to (express)say ‘YES’.
But dont use head,neck by nodding at the neck to express ‘YES’.
Banish the cartoon channels , who are broadcasting the programs for the children.
Since, the channels dont know alexander principles movements and directions.
What they are using the toys,images are misdirected.
Childrens may imitate these misdirections and has bad effect on their movements.
The worlds cheapest thing For the health, with out investing a single rupee, dollar……… Is
‘THINKING’,’INHIBITING’,’DIRECTING’ .
What is the alexander technique?
Ans@
alexander technique is a conscious technique of
a) 3 hours of walk consciousness.
B) 12 hours of sit consciousness.
C) 1 hour of bending consciousness
d) 2 hours of stand consciousness.
Total 18 hours consciousness out of 24 hours a day.
The remaining 6 hours is for sleeping.
If YOU(I) are a ‘Water drop ‘, then
the world will be the ‘LOTUS LEAF’ .
and notice,
the ‘water drop’ never sticks to the lotus leaf.
F.m. Alexander paradoxically makes this happen.
what is the present direction of my neck?
what is the present direction of my head?
what is the present direction of my jaw?
what is the present direction of my thoratic curve?
what is the present direction of my lumbar curve?
what is the present direction of my sacrum curve?
what is the present direction of my chest ribcage?
what is the present direction of my back ribcage?
what is the present direction of my sitting bones?
what is the present direction of my hips?
what is the present direction of my abdomin?
what is the present direction of my sides of the abdomin?
what is the present direction of my back of the abdomin?
what is the present direction of my lower abdomin?
what is the present direction of my costal arch?
what is the present direction of my floating ribs?
what is the present direction of my knees?
what is the present direction of my heels?
what is the present direction of my ankles?
what is the present direction of my toes?
what is the present direction of my back of the legs?
what is the present direction of my shoulders?
what is the present direction of my elbow?
what is the present direction of my wrists?
what is the present direction of my fingers?
What is the present direction of back of the arms?
what is the ‘normal tension’ of the human bodies?
Ans@ no science in the world dared to give answer for this question.
But alexander technique says@
‘ when the body parts are moving towards alex directions of good use’ , with movemental or still activities, that tension is paradoxically
‘normal tension’.
f.m. Alexander: good work, chinnari.
Me: thank you.
F.m. Alexander: do you have dare and guts.
1. Asking 10 parts of the body, what directions they are presently, WITH IN A MICRO or fraction of a second?
2. Are you considering the time with directions.
And iam warning you, dont do the above 2 points rightly (end-gain)
me: i shocked again, and told him
i will try to my level best.
what is inhibition?
Ans@ analysing the present directions of the parts like neck, head(jaw,eyes), back( spine curves,ribcage,pelvis),legs(knees,heels,toes), shoulders, arms(elbow,wrist,fingers)……
and sensing the directions and collecting the ‘raw data’ about the parts and doing nothing with the data.
OR
collecting the raw data about the parts of the body.
What is direction?
Ans@ collecting the present raw data or raw directions, of the body parts, and
thinking the ‘alex directions’ based on the raw data, in the activity for getting a whole body satisfactory ‘information’.
1.thinking of head forward( instead of forward and up)?
Ans@ thinking of forward and down.
2.thinking of neck ‘not forward’ or ‘not stoop’ ( instead of back and up)?
Ans@ thinking of neck back and down.
What are other directions of this type?
is it compulary to think ‘BACK and UP’ alexander direction instead of ‘BACK’ for the back(torso) part direction ?
Ans@ i have to believe yes.
1. With out UP , the faulty sense may leads to DOWN unknowingly.
2. ‘BACK’ and ‘BACK and UP’ directions are different.
3. Not thinking of UP means, thinking DOWN.
4. If the back goes to back and up then the back lengthens and widens.
If the back lengthens and widens the back(torso) goes to back and up.
Which are dynamic oppossitions.
What happens when the conscious connectivity lost between (neck head) AND back.
OR
When the head goes to back and down in relation to back?
Ans@ the back goes to shorten and narrowed. Means
the chest raises( more tension which is not normal tension),
the stomach group muscles protrudes(less tension not normal tension)
the pelvis tucks( more tension at the lower back).
The shortening and narrowing makes the torso muscle groups with more or less tension.
Again and again TRAP,TRAP,TRAP.
How much time we can do the right thing?
One hour,
or
one minute,
or
one day,
or
one week
..
….
If we are doing on general daily basis, like how we eat food daily,
what is the need to do rightly?
Wether we are eating daily 100 grams food weighting it? (this is the right thing)
just project or THINK remember the muscle parts as a whole, alex movemental directional sequence like TAKE IT EASY POLICY.
The thought does its duty , but dont forget
F.M.ALEXANDER
the great.
Or
notice your son movements. Your son moves towards alex direction always.
Learn from your son.
He is 100 times better than you and equal to f.m.alexander.
Alexander is infront of you in the form of your son.
Touch your son and sense his movements.
Respect your son.
Dont see your son but notice his movements.
You are free then.
Your son is notdoing any thing.
He is just doing his duty.
Start from your bad habit, and end at your bad habit.
The alex directions are between your bad habits.
Alexander told@ if we do always what we are doing, then no change at all.
We have to not do habitually.
Any cheating with mind is fine.
Any trick, cunning,tweaking is fine.
The mind is cheating us, why we should not cheat the mind?
Confuse the mind,then the mind falls on your feet.
Tweak the unconsciousness.
Trick the unconsciousness.
Fool it.
Play with it.
Give some rest to it.
Do the wrong thing, do the right thing and trick the mind and tell the mind. It will accept alexander directions.
F.m.alexander told , once we have control on the primary movement or primary control, the control or satisfying the rest of the body is a simple matter.
With out inhibition there is no direction.
I think, inhibiting is very hard, compared to directing. Since the direction comes after inhibition.
And the directing comes after the inhibiting.
Including me most of the people are directors, and not so much inhibitors.
I know iam a poor inhibitor, and i pity on myself.
Whether with out inhibition, the direction becomes DOING?
Hoping for the good, once again.
Thorax has ribcage, thoratic spine and the 12 ribs are attached to 12 thoratic vertebrae. I know this.
But,
why iam not thinking front ribcage thorax, back ribcage thorax at a time one after the other and not thinking of whole thorax?
F.m.Alexander told@
alexander technique is the hardest ever thing you do in our life time. A lot of experience you will get in this process.
I have to believe, and believed,
a change in the body part ,is a change in all the body parts.
The stimulus of bad habit parts, is far stronger than the stimulus to employee the new direction of use.
Alexander told the below statement@
that to the back lengthen and widen he must put the head forward and up.
Secure the lengths and widths in space , the end may not get to day or tommorrow, it will be sure one day.
We cant separate mind body processes in any activity.
There is no such a thing as right position. A man held with position never grow. The good position today may become bad position tommorrow in the process of reeducation.
The stimulus of new use for a specific part is weaker than the stimulus of bad habitual part with unconscious ness.
Alexander told@ i never told to do any thing , i told them to think.
The end may not get today or tomorrow , but one day it will be sure.
Believing f.m.alexander is equal to doing alexander technique.
I think you are the only one teacher, who is using
Images with ARROW MARKS for specifying directions,
and vedios for explaining the real scenarios.
Alexander told there is no proper posture, but there is proper direction.
Leland val is doing the same thing , by specifying the directions in the form of arrow marks. I think if we remember the arrow marks directions for the different parts of the body and directing with stimulus we can get some sensory from those parts.
Writing bundle of notes is waste since a pupil may not under stand those matter and has a chance of misdirecting.
Thanks to leland val vedios and images.