Alexander Technique
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April 27th, 2023
- general link to Michael Ashcroft's Alexander Technique stuff
August 1st, 2021
What are the components or dimensions required for collab… › current/new model as of sometime in 2021 › 1. brain hemispheres / McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model › so then we might ask "what sorts of exercises might train…
- and it seems that one of the simplest things is going to be something like Alexander Technique, which is a practice for rebalancing the relationship between the brain hemispheres, by practising expanding awareness in each moment (ie about every 3s)
- this also allows inhibiting patterns without suppressing them
May 16th, 2021
- from Michael Ashcroft's Alexander Technique course, even tho he said not to take notes
- > “Trying is only emphasising the thing we know already,” said Frederick Matthias Alexander, the originator of the Technique. You have no idea how you landed that shot so well, so all your trying is just emphasising the wrong thing.
- > Alexander captured the way out of this trap: “When you stop doing the wrong thing, the right thing does itself.” Don’t try to think. Instead, learn to stop doing the things that get in the way of thinking and just let thinking happen by itself.
- hm hm, deep truth to this and also tons of subtlety
- certain eternalish confusions near here
- > Things that are outside of your awareness are not accessible to you; you cannot choose to engage with something until your awareness includes it.
- this feels like something I've found frustrating about a lot of techniques
- they try to shortcircuit this