How you stand, how you move, how you live : learning the Alexander Technique to explore your mind-body connection and achieve self-mastery /
"The Alexander Technique (AT) is a remarkably simple but powerful method for learning to skillfully control how your brain and body interact, allowing you to better coordinate your movements while increasing the accuracy of you mind's thought and perceptions"--
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Cambridge, MA :
Da Capo Life Long,
©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Surprising observations
- A malfunctioning locomotor system
- How did we get this way? From fish to horse to biped
- Standing on two legs : the biped's challenge
- A sense of feeling
- Feelings gone wrong
- The feeling of fear
- Fear's body-mind
- Anxiety and performance
- Attention, awareness, and conscious inhibition
- A fine day in London with nothing to feel
- Discovering the thinking mind
- Believing is not seeing
- The difference that inhibition makes
- You have a helper
- Fewer words, more space
- More problems with feelings
- Balance and coordination
- A new way of moving
- Touching the heart
- The teacher's hands
- Pain free and moving again
- An incredible lightness of being
- Speaking from my self
- Self-mastery : connection.
