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Yesterday I did my first on-line session with a client, I hadn’t meet her before however I was strangely calm and confident. We met via a private Facebook group we are both in, she put out a call for help, I responded and set agreed a time and met via Facebook messenger.
Usual format for a session, introduction, how can I help and then on to the work. My work involves aligning someone else’s energy by discussion, instructions and demonstration via touch; offering my energy so they can get a sense of what they themselves have available inside themselves if they choose to access their personal energy.
My concern was if I worked via the internet our energies wouldn’t connect, I was proved wrong almost immediately. I was so pleased and relaxed in to my teaching.
When I’m teaching face to face there is an energetic connection, this energy communicates a lot of things, don’t worry though it feels like I’m reading your mind, I’m not, I can sense what your energy is doing. We can all do this at some level; do you ever get a sense in a room or near a person that puts you on edge, it’s that sort of energy.
As I mentioned earlier my intention for the work is to help you to get yourself aligned in your body, I really can’t do this for you, this is your work to do through my instruction, as with everything in life you have to choose to do it or not.
We all have two body map schemas in our thoughts, our imaginary one and the true one, unfortunately we tend to choose our imaginary version, this can lead to pain, eventual joint replacements and even permanent disability. Part of my work is to move your imaginary schema closer to the truth, then pain subsides. I do this through talking and for you to do some finger poking around your joints whilst moving a limb or two, so you can get to understand where the actual joint is. It’s fun and it’s wonderful to see your ahah moments.
All this work is with fun, humour and love. You only do things you are comfortable with.
I see the body mapping as an essential element to help you to become aligned, if you don’t really know where things are, you will make it up, making thing up is part of our survival makeup.
Now you know where the relationship between your limbs, your energy can be more aligned through your feet through to your crown chakra and visa versa.
Now our energy work can start.
We are not just energy going up and down our body, we emit and receive in all directions and we also remember events from the past and can project these events to future. This were we can create problems for ourselves. Learning to let go of unhelpful habits and beliefs, for example your belief how your wrist rotates, getting to understand how it works can reduce carpel tunnel pain and the pain elsewhere in your body.
With practice it only takes a thought to mitigate pain.
Pain is misaligned energy!
I’ve digressed, back to yesterday,
It was wonderful for me, I’ll let you into a secret, when I work with you, I’m working on myself as well.
We worked together to help ease her pain, she told me it had moved and lessened, she felt connected to the ground and her energy was flowing, she said she felt heavy and solid in a good way with space around her and things looked brighter. My work is done, we are planning her next session.
If you want your pain to lessen, be grounded and aligned and feel great perhaps please contact me and you can experience what she felt for yourself.
During this pandemic I’m offering my services at a cost you can afford, you state the price!
Please get in contact so I can help you. This work is so important as it has always been, but ever so much more now.
All you need to bring to the session is your mobile device or something that does video chats and an interested mind that is looking for something different to change your life.
We all constantly engage with people even thought we don’t
notice it, for example having an emotional response when watching a movie, a
play or listening to music; emotions rise, and you may have tears, or you may fight
your hardest to stop your tears. This is the communication I mean.
Have you ever walked into a room; you can feel something has
just happened; you can feel the mood of the room. Sometimes this feeling is not
very nice or equally it may feel buoyant and good.
These senses are all communications, many of you have
desensitised yourself to these senses not by choice but what through life’s
stresses and strains.
During my Alexander Technique Teacher training I’ve learnt
and am still learning is to strip back the effects of life’s stresses and strains
so that I can regain my sensitivity to our numerous forms of communication so
that I can accept your communications when you wish to converse. Your wish is
ever so important, firstly for yourself; having the knowledge that I’m not
prying and secondly for me, it’ll be shear overload for me if I accept
everyone’s communications.
As an Alexander Technique teacher,
I need this sensitivity to your communications, even to those as yet undefined
methods of communication. This communication is enhanced by being aware of
myself and my environment in each and every moment; a quiet listening. And
equally a quiet talking, Listening implies hearing sounds, what I’m writing is
not about just sounds but all the ways you are communicating, equally talking
is not just about making verbal sound but all the ways I can communicate to you
that you will receive information. We are constantly sending and receiving
non-verbal information to each other, a smile, a connection eye to eye, the way
you respond physically to stimuli, your response to touch. Alexander Technique
Teachers do a lot of touch, normally somewhere on your back, it’s the easiest
way to sense your kinaesthetic activity and also to allow you to get to notice
your own kinaesthetic self.
There will be most likely a
conversation to stimulate you to notice something. Perhaps you can experiment
now;
“Do you notice what you are doing
with your toes whilst reading this blog?”
Perhaps you stopped reading to
wiggly your toes, that’s absolutely fine, now can you notice your toes, without
wiggling them and continue reading? Does your sensation of yourself increase by
this simple activity?
I’d love to read your comments.
Perhaps today, when you remember,
notice your toes or any other part of your body you want. Does your awareness
spread?
Some activities of getting ready do need some preparation, like making dinner, preparing for friends how will visit. However some things we get ready for there is no point is getting ready as we are ready already. These activities are generally when we move from one activity to another.
from sitting to standing
from walking to running
from observing to catching a ball
We all tend prepare for the change in activity by getting ready, the getting ready is a tightening of muscles in preparation for something we are already prepared for. We overthink things so we think we need to do something to get ready. Maybe grimacing your face to lift a heavy weight, if you think about it, we don’t tend to lift things with our facial muscles so why all this extra effort?
It is not just our facial muscles that we tense to get ready, it may be holding your breathe, tightening your shoulders, we all have our favourite tightening for our own way of getting ready.
What’s yours?
The difficult bit is noticing your own getting ready patterns, that’s where I come in, my years of Alexander Technique training and practice, I notice these things in people and can offer you a different plan for getting ready where you don’t grimace to lift heavy weights or don’t hold your breath when you decide the run or don’t tightened your arm just before you catch a ball.
I’ll introduce you to rediscovering your freedom and aliveness you once had, then life becomes a whole lot better.
The other day I went to pick up one of our dogs from the vets, I went with the vet nurse to the treatment room, she explained what I need to do post operation, during our conversation she asked what do I do. I told her that I’m an Alexander Technique teacher, she said the usual, “What’s that?”. My description that morning was, I teach people to be in balance, that’s with gravity and also with time and space.
She replied: “oh!”
We walked to the get my dog from the kennels. I asked here if she wanted to experience what I teach? Yes please.
I explained it’s firstly about noticing things and just observing. (if you want, please play along with what I told her)
The first thing to notice is yourself, notice your feet touching the ground as you walk, then notice your body from the top of your head to the soles of your feet.
We arrived at the kennels, she let my dog from the crate, lots of fussing and then we tried to get his body sock on to protect his stitches.
He wasn’t having any of it.
I suggested that we can calm him easily by simply noticing ourselves like I just mentioned, if that doesn’t work then notice the space around you. It worked and he immediately went quiet, she was amazed! We put his body sock on.
There was only one other dog in the kennels, he was panting and very stressed. Our thinking wasn’t working on him. I said lets see if we can calm him down. Again notice yourself and the space around you and include the dog in your space. The panting slowed but he still wanted to pant. She commented that the energy in the room had changed it was now calm.
I challenged her to experiment again, same routine with another extra. Notice yourself, the space around you and this time you have the freedom to leave the room whenever you want to. The panting stopped! He still had his head up. She commented the energy in the room has changed again, it was still very calm but now more crisp and energetic.
One last experiment, repeat your thoughts without words, over and over again. The dog rested his head on his front paws. We both sat on the floor of the kennels with my dog lying on his back, the other dog quiet in his crate.
She said she wanted to stay here all day, she’s never been so chilled and energised at the same time.
She said this is better then smoking dope!
You can have this experience if you want.
I have the experience most of the time and can show you how.
This is being present in the here and now, it is available to all.
Veterinary nurses love it, well the one I was with.
When I meet new people one of the many questions that are asked are;
Where do you live?
Questions about my family and relationships
Why are am I here
Of course the weather
then the terrifying question arrives, what do you do!
I do have two roles, I’m a business analyst, most guess what this is without asking too many questions – they probably don’t know but their guess will do and I’m happy with that.
We can move on.
My other role is an Alexander Technique Teacher, well I will be soon. People either know or think they know, they are the ones that tighten their back to become erect and tall or they mention that it is something about sitting and standing.
The others want more information.
I really don’t know which ones are worse to explain what the Alexander Technique is; those with preconceived ideas or those without a clue.
I’ve shuffled around many ideas on what to say at this point, my current words are about rediscovering your lost freedom and ease, changing your habits that give you pain to habits that allow you freedom and ease; regressing back to being an 6 year old.
You may think that is impossible,
I’ll tell you it is not,
it is only a choice like the choice you have to maintain your painful habits.
Changing habits is a little difficult as you have to go against your norm, your norm has helped you throughout your life, if you are not careful every time you choose to make a change your norm will be resistant and win over your well intentioned choice. If you are like me your norm will win every time. What needs to be done is approach change indirectly then your habit can claim it for itself. Your habits are like your manager at work that keeps stealing your ideas. If you know that they do this then you can steer them to what you want. Habits are the same.
You need to show your habit the benefit of the change so that your habit can steal your idea.
Do you ever get out of breathe when you do a particular activity, mine was walking up hill. I’d see a hill and get ready for the incline; hunker down and lean into the hill – this is absolutely stupid, it is making the incline even more onerous.
Being an engineer I have an understanding about levers and weights, leaning forward I need more energy to move myself than if I was upright therefore getting ready for a hill by leaning forward is a waste of effort and pretty stupid.
The other thing I noticed I was doing was making sure I lifted my knees higher than normal and putting more energy than I needed into moving my legs. Unless it is a very steep incline the height you normally lift your feet is enough to go up a hill.
I’ve almost forgot, not only did a get ready by leaning into the hill, I’d hold my breathe for some strange reason. I’d be breathless in a few steps.
Obviously something needs to change, being breathless did have it’s benefits I’d have to stop walking. I find working on breathing can be a difficult experiment as I get drawn into breathing, my view breathing should just happen so I avoid working on my breathing.
Going back to basics always works for me. whether it is a hill, or any other activity.
Get to know your environment, notice what you are touching, your feet on the ground, your skin touching your clothes, the sense of the wind passing your skin, the heat of the sun. Be there with your environment. Allow yourself to receive whatever you can see, don’t go searching and focusing on anything. Keep refreshing these thoughts, these thought indirectly quieten down my breathing and magically I become more upright without any effort – remember in the beginning of this blog people tightened their back to become erect, there is no need for this, it happens naturally when you allow it to happen. Now I can carry on with my walk up hill. whenever the need to hunker down to get up the hill appears I can either stop for a moment to get to know my environment and refresh the thought on every step. At some point awhile back my walking up hill habit changed from hunkering down to noticing the environment, walking up hill is now a breeze.
Perhaps you could experiment or find an Alexander Technique Teacher to help you to rediscover your 6 year old self again.
I’m spring cleaning, well my garage, aka the junk store. I’ve collected some junk, kept just in case it’s needed someday. I’ve decided that day has passed. I’ve got parts for cars that have long gone, left over material from my various build projects and some just plain ordinary junk.
My head keeps saying “keep it just in case” and my heart says “get rid, IT IS junk”. This is really hard as my head keeps winning the argument over my heart even though I know my heart is right. I’ve tricked my head a little by offering some things free locally, but my head is hoping no-one will take up the offer I can keep them for that day I’ll need them.
These thoughts happen constantly in me and I guess in you as well. The constant battle of the head over the heart. I must say after a lifetime of my head winning, I’m starting to see my heart getting its way. The more I let my heart make the choice the better the choice is however heart choices are scary, they require courage and commitment as the head will try to butt in and return you to a place of safety, somewhere you have been before, somewhere amongst your junk. You can stay there amongst your junk, I have for years been waiting for the right day to use it; I’ll let you into a secret, that day doesn’t exist.
The truth is that this blog is part of my procrastination in avoiding my garage, making a coffee, disappearing into Facebook also make up my wonderful game of procrastination.
I find there is a different energy between a head thought and a heart thought,
Give it a go if you like!
Keep it simple, Think in your head about something needs to be done, perhaps sorting out something that has you have put off for ages. Keep thinking what needs to be done, I find it slightly depressing and hard work to think that way but somehow comforting; I’m used to that way of thinking.
Now let’s think with our hearts, thinking with our hearts I found more open and giving also we can see the end, a junk free garage. It may be just me, my heart opens, I feel lighter and I’m smiling at the thought and the challenge. It feels a lot easier.
I hope that worked for you, I want to get on with my garage now, I’ll stay a little longer to finish this blog off, honest I’m thinking with my heart.
The way we think is one of the many choices we have in each moment of the day. We only ever have this moment and it only lasts for a moment and then gone forever. Please reread that sentence again. This is all we have however your head thinks otherwise, as your head loves to remember and use what is remembered and transpose it on to the future. The future doesn’t exist neither does the past, only this moment exists and only lasts for a moment.
I didn’t think I would get that deep though my heart thought differently.
Of course with all this contentment I’ve been writing about I still have to get on and do things; working, driving, keeping the house tidy, planning events and holidays, etc, etc; life still needs to go on whilst being contented and grounded. But these things are somehow easier, I don’t have, it does pop up occasionally, the doubt, worry and I’m not good enough thoughts. When they do pop up I know I’ve slipped out of balance somewhere and I bring my balance back and these thoughts just vaporise, some of these thought may be persistent then I pause for a longer moment, sometimes they don’t want to leave me, I then continue with the knowledge they are there with me, I may be doubting myself as I continue; at the moment I have this doubt, I guess I’m touching a nerve in that I am opening up to much to whoever is reading this blog.
Writing this blog is my choice and clicking on the ‘publish’ button is another choice, I’ve got plenty of blogs that haven’t been published for some reason or other.
Life is full of choices and they can be changed at any point, there are even more choices the more present you are, ugh you may be thinking, I’ve got enough choices already and why do I want to be conscious and get more. I’ve noticed that the choices are different, I’m not making choices that I don’t want to make, I’m not bending to someone else’s will. Sometimes life brings the inevitable, a flat car tyre, it will need to be fixed if you want to continue on your journey then acceptance can be brought into the activity. There’s no need for anger though you may be annoyed, there’s no need to be embarrassed for something that is out of your control. Being accepting of the situation you maintain your balance and contentment and you may find a more pleasurable outcome that leads to other opportunities.
How about noticing when you next get angry or annoyed let the vengefulness slide away and disappear. You can still be angry or annoyed and grounded and contented at the same time. I find at that moment there are plenty of more opportunities and choices to be made though your authentic self.
Please give it a go when you have the opportunity.
So how do you find contentment? It’s one of those very easy things to do be ever so hard to achieve, I think I’ve got a plan but have I?
It’s just one of those things.
If you think you have it, it just disappears in a puff of smoke. If it is so elusive why do people want it so much? Is it because of its scarcity, elusive or is it because you hear good things about contentment.
You can discover through various channels, yoga, meditation, reflexology, energy work, martial arts, mindfulness and for me it was via the Alexander Technique. As I’ve written before these channels or methods are just one of many ways to get you to notice what you are doing and then to invite a change, hopefully for the better.
What I like about the Alexander Technique is that it is sort of mindfulness in activity but it is a lot more than that. The Alexander Technique is choosing to be conscious in what you choose to do. You have options to choose, sometimes it is best to let your reactions take over, say, avoiding a speed car or something falling near you and you need to avoid it. However most of the time you could be more conscious in what you do, it is your choice. However being more conscious in what you do does lead you to being more content, I’ve noticed less things phase me, my anger and equally my joyfulness have lost their energies, of course if I choose to.
Many people think they know what the Alexander Technique is, isn’t about posture, something about a straight back? It is but it isn’t, it’s about thinking and allow yourself to be as it should be, then again it’s not about the thinking, or what I think you think thinking is.
The thinking I’m suggesting is akin to non-thinking but is more than non-thinking. If you are confused, join the club, I was confused for years.
My confusion was that I thought I had to do something to do this ‘more than non-thinking’ stuff, the secret is there is nothing to do as it is built into ourselves already.
If we take a moment or several moments for me, you may notice more things in your vicinity, noises may get louder, I notice that normally silent clocks get loader, my sight gets cleared and my peripheral vision increases, my sense of touch increases, these sensations only that if I stop fretting and worrying about things. All this can be achieved by using mindful techniques, what is different with the Alexander Technique is we practice this whilst in everyday activities. So you may find when you have an Alexander Technique lesson that the activities my seem a little contrived, for example moving from sitting to standing, if you think about it, how many times a day do you sit on a chair and how many times are you really conscious of sitting and standing or any other routine activity?
Experimenting with the routine everyday activities gives you plenty of homework to experiment with. How about experimenting now? When you next decide to move from sitting to standing start to notice things,
What are you thinking, if there is any judgement let it go and move to standing?
What limbs do you use, let any judgement go and move to standing?
What muscles do you need to use?
What happened with your breathe, did you hold your breath or gasp before you started the activity?
What happened when you reached your full height, was there any judgement?
You may have your own questions you want to ask yourself, please avoid being judgmental as judgement will mask your discoveries and also you’ll lose your presence.
What you may find is that you start the experiment and all of a sudden you are standing with no recollection of the questions or even moving from sitting to standing. What ever you notice is great, next time you experiment you will notice something else, keep experimenting and noticing the change. Of course you could seek out an Alexander Technique teacher or even me, you will get quicker results and a noticeable change in how you move in your daily activities and also in your contentment with life.
It’s pretty hard to write about anything when I’m content with myself, strangely I have the urge to write, but what to write about!
I like this sense of calm, I’m aware of myself, what I’m doing and my environment, in my office on a rainy January Sunday. This sense of calm has taken some time to appear, over the past few years I’ve tried so hard to discover this calm, it has all ways been out of reach. I’ve been ill with what I guess was flu so I’ve had sometime to stop my normal busy life and do nothing. I started listening to people I trust, the common story was “you’re doing too much – stop it”. For some reason I listened, even took up the offer of some reflexology with Deborah. Whatever she did changed me in some way, I think there were also some other contributing factors as well, I stopped and listened to others and more importantly my body, I’ve also read two thought provoking books, Brene Brown’s “Braving the Wilderness” and Eckhart Tolle’s ” A New Earth”. I only decided the read ‘ A New World” as I saw a copy of one of Eckhart’s books in Deborah’s treatment room.
The books and my past Alexander Training have a common theme, bringing consciousness to the for, then you have the opportunity to be authentic if you want to.
My problem in the past has been ‘if I wanted to’; I’ve never really thought that I was worthy therefore I choose not to. I’ve had moments of a really strong sense of authenticity but never had the nerve to take it any further because of thoughts of “that’s not what I do, it’s not what I am”.
Being ill has given me the time to experiment without my normal external stimuli and also to quieten down my internal stimuli. Noticing when I measure things as good or bad, happy or sad; these measures are just thoughts that feed my ego. So instead I’ve been experimenting at noticing when I make a judgement, pausing for a moment, asking myself do I need to be judgmental about whatever it was, the answer has always been no. This is a slight lie as I never get to ask the question, pausing for a moment and reconnecting with the ground and space around me I become present, in the here and now. Being in the present the judgmental thought just evaporates hence the question disappears.
This all sounds like a lot of work and thinking, I thought that but you will find it is less thinking than second guessing others and building up negative energies by being judgmental.
If you have thoughts of “that’s not what I do, it’s not what I am” or you find that you keep making or taking sides in various situations, perhaps you could experiment with discovering your authenticity. It is such a contented space to be in, I was going to write ‘such a happy space’ but this isn’t true, being contented could be happy or sad, however happy and sad are measurements of some sort that will break your contentment.
John
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