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【Doubts about "the right thing does itself"】 In the Alexander Technique, there is the idea "the right thing does itself". Because of this idea, the ideal state can be achieved through "non-doing" process. However, I have doubts about w...

There are many movement solutions in one activity. People choose one movement out of many movement solutions to complete the activitiy. The context of the activity still affords multiple movement patterns, and this mean the chosen moveme...

Just positional change won't give us good result, but less muscle contraction or adequate recruiting of the muscles will. This is through teaching experience. In kinesiology there is a term 'postural control', and it includes both its po...

There is a therapy called Focusing. This could be good in psychotherapy, but I think that this won't help movement problem very much. It may help, but it probably takes more time. The AT lessons will help better. Most of the senses (espe...

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/do-our-bones-influence-our-minds This article is interesting, although we don’t yet know whether it is applicable to human-being. Higher bone mass may affect better mind state. Anyway, we already kn...

One of the recommended processes in the AT is “to think of the whole body” or "think of the self as a whole". When we move with this intention, somehow we can move easier and lighter. Performance with this intention will be better like f...

Again, I had discussion about "weightless" with an AT teacher in Facebook.   An AT teacher says "To be weightless then means to somehow be free of this downwards-acting force." Then the teacher says "both of the weightlessness boxes...

I had discussion with an AT teacher in Facebook, and I like to share here.  We should study more about the alignment of bones (the relation between compression or the compressed members). How we align bones and whole body is an impo...

It seems to me that some AT teachers trust the nature or natural function of our body. They seem to have a belief that it works perfectly for our life unless we disturb it.  It is actually marvelous if we know our homeostasis, metab...

Startle response definitely relates to the pull of our head and the tension in the neck. The point I want to make is that this pattern of the muscle contraction in the neck and pulling the head back and down is the same as the pattern wh...