Develop positive body language with Alexander Technique

 

Your body language is what you communicate to others without saying a word. I have a neighbor I sometimes watch from my second-floor window as he leaves my building, and I can tell what kind of mood he’s in as he makes his way down the street — it has often been a not-so-happy look. I can tell by how he carries himself, by the slump in his shoulders, his bowed head, and his shambling gait. I’d been worried about him. He’s a nice guy, and he’s done me a lot of good, and recently, an important favor.

So I wanted to return the favor, and offered him a few Alexander Technique lessons as a thank-you. He didn’t immediately jump at the idea, but some months later stopped by and said, “I think I’m ready, I need to make a change in my life.” That’s all I needed to hear. I had a hunch he might develop positive body language with Alexander Technique.

At our first lesson, he told me his mother had always complained about his posture and told him to pull his shoulders back (he demonstrated, hoisting his chest, and shifting his shoulders into a model of military stiffness). I said that wasn’t really the way to go. We continued to work in our lesson on getting him to release his neck, and with that, to let his spine lengthen, while encouraging his feet to make good contact with the ground (“hold the floor in place,” I told him.)

After multiple times getting in and out of a chair in a new way, and some “letting go” work on the table, he looked at himself in our studio mirror in wonder. His shoulders fell in a beautiful, natural broad arc at the foot of his gently erect neck. His eyes were bright, and his legs and feet met the floor with new energy. “You’re a new man,” I said. He laughed with pleasure and surprise. “It’s like being a baby again, you’re teaching me to sit and stand and walk!” and all that was true. Most importantly, though, I was helping him to become himself unbowed by a lot of unhappy habits he’d gotten used to and that were literally bringing him down — down in space as well as in spirit.

Because now, on top of everything else, my friend was subtly but visibly taller.

I had to warn him, “All this won’t just ‘stay in place’ for long — and I don’t want you to try and ‘hold it in place,’ either. What we’re doing is teaching you to be constantly creating this condition of freedom. It’s a process you are learning that you can use yourself, to recreate yourself.” He walked me to the subway and I asked him whether he’d be able to meet the following week at the same time. “I sure can!” he replied, “I’m excited!” I was too. This is really the fun of teaching. Watching people develop positive body language for expressing freedom and well-being. “Don’t forget,” I told him, “stop every once in a while and ask yourself, am I going up? Or am I coming down.”

The word “up” is the most important word in our new language.

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Relieve Worry with Alexander Technique

It might, at first, strain your credulity to believe that thinking about one's neck, head, torso, and limbs would be helpful for worrisome thoughts! It is possible, however, to relieve worry with Alexander Technique.

When we worry, we express our worry physically, in the way we hold our heads, necks and shoulders, fretting and clutching in our hands, etc. That's how we experience worry.

When we think our Alexander directions repeatedly, with the intention of relieving the physical expression of our worry (our excess muscle tension), the experience of worry is substantially relieved. It's not magic -- it takes some effort, intention, and time; we must "work" at it, mentally. But it does reduce the experience of worry and makes it manageable. Because we have these tools to affect the experience, it is not so overwhelming, and we are not so helpless as we might have been without the tools.

I think part of the success of these efforts has to do with the fact that, by giving ourselves good advice (i.e., the directions) and repeating the directions in order to get some relief, we are in essence standing by/sticking with ourselves in a positive, helpful way. We are befriending ourselves.

Having a routine for befriending one's self in times of trouble is an invaluable thing. One of the worst things about being overcome with worry is that we feel isolated, alone with our troubles. Availing oneself of the directions is like relying upon your second self, who expresses concern and administers aid. Ultimately, that's a pretty big deal.

Whether you use the directions to soothe an aching back, a worried mind or a broken heart, knowing how to do this is useful knowledge, and having that second self to rely on is very special. 

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PAIN MANAGEMENT | ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE NYC | BETTERATBEING

 

• Many common aches and pains — and some more serious issues like chronic back ache, neck pain and headaches — can be greatly reduced or even eliminated by learning Alexander Technique. This is because our everyday habits of excessive muscular constriction may be triggering the pain or making it worse.
• Very often, pain is also accompanied by emotional stress or anxiety. Happily AT can help with both pain and anxiety.
• We don’t know how we are hurting ourselves until we observe our negative habits in our AT lessons. Once we know exactly what harm we are doing, we can begin to change.

AT can help — and it can’t hurt

• AT has an excellent track record for reducing back pain, supported by widely corroborated anecdotal evidence as well as clinical trials. And unlike some treatment options, trying AT lessons with betterATbeing doesn’t put you at risk of making your pain worse. Or causing harmful side effects.
• You will be taking part in a very gentle process that is not based on forceful manipulation of limbs, joints, or vertebrae. Most of the work you will do in your lessons is carried out by you, yourself, with your own improved knowledge of how to use your body and mind for your own good.

Get medical advice — and AT lessons

• Go see your doctor. It is always a good idea to seek professional advice when you are in pain. But see an AT teacher too. AT can be an added help, and sometimes a life-changing step, in pain management.
• It is particularly important to investigate what AT can do for you if you are considering surgery. You need to know how much of your pain is within your own power to ease and prevent.

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What Can the Alexander Technique Do for You?

 With individual, holistic Alexander Technique lessons at betterATbeing, you can learn to go about everything you do in a better way.

You can be more intentional in each moment. And you can let go, choice by choice, of the things you do that hurt and exhaust you; express yourself with greater ease and confidence; do your job better, without burning out, and thrive as you get older.

As Alexander Technique enables you to take charge of yourself more and more, you can feel, and be, empowered. Knowing that you have the skills to shape your own experience can give you a brighter outlook and renewed energy.

And because AT is a practical, skills-based method for improving your general functioning, you won’t leave it in the teaching studio. You’ll use it from the minute you wake up in the morning to when you turn in each night.

Relieve Worry with Alexander Technique

It might, at first, strain your credulity to believe that thinking about one's neck, head, torso, and limbs would be helpful for worrisome thoughts! It is possible, however, to relieve worry with Alexander Technique.

When we worry, we express our worry physically, in the way we hold our heads, necks and shoulders, fretting and clutching in our hands, etc. That's how we experience worry.

When we think our Alexander directions repeatedly, with the intention of relieving the physical expression of our worry (our excess muscle tension), the experience of worry is substantially relieved. It's not magic -- it takes some effort, intention, and time; we must "work" at it, mentally. But it does reduce the experience of worry and makes it manageable. Because we have these tools to affect the experience, it is not so overwhelming, and we are not so helpless as we might have been without the tools.

I think part of the success of these efforts has to do with the fact that, by giving ourselves good advice (i.e., the directions) and repeating the directions in order to get some relief, we are in essence standing by/sticking with ourselves in a positive, helpful way. We are befriending ourselves.

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Why Should New Yorkers Take AT Lessons?

 When the sights, sounds, pressures and perpetual motion of New York City become more than you can take in — or tune out

— betterATbeing Alexander Technique (AT) can teach you how maintain your own internal balance.

With hands-on Alexander Technique lessons from betterATbeing, conveniently located in New York, NY, you can begin to notice when this exciting but frenetic environment leads you to react with excessive muscular tension and postural patterns that cause discomfort, pain, or even injury.

Helping you recognize the way you react to stimulus — and imparting the skills you need to respond creatively instead — is betterATbeing’s mission.

Because you can’t tell New York to calm down. But with AT, you can quiet your own reactions, so you can feel and function better. And love your city, and your life, more than ever.