The amount of relief we feel as we let go, is on a ratio as to the amount of unnecessary tension we were holding. Of course now I understand their answer and they were right. I was beside myself with rage and wondered at their apparent smugness. That’s because it wasn’t the right question, they would say. They gave me plenty of words, but didn’t directly answer. Sometimes I would ask questions to which my teachers didn’t answer. Alexander was heard to say near the end of his life when questioned, “Read my books, it’s all in there.” Hurray! How refreshing! It is very difficult to get lost these days. It takes the time it takes to find the path, and we get lost on the way. Sometimes this work will generate nice feelings. The light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming train but actually the end of the tunnel. Sometimes we feel that yet again we are in our world of habit and we react by feeling bad about it. Inhibit this and the past will come to you.Ĭan you inhibit your worry thoughts? It’s wonderful if you can, if only for a few moments. But we don’t need to stay in the past, or make it our habit. But this thinking is happening in the present. It can be pleasant to root around in our personal history of course, re-live happy times. Our habit is often to leave the experience of now to dig around in the past. If we are concentrating on our future, then we miss the present. So our living in the now is predicated on our ability to predict futures from past experience. But she can predict where it might go, reading her opponent’s body movements and based on past experience. It’s simply too fast for our brain to process. When someone serves a tennis ball the receiver has no time to keep her eye one the ball. We are creatures primed for predicting movement. Quite a programme to inhibit and re-organise. You are contacting the Earth when you are in touch with someone else.Īs we begin to react, over 600 muscles prepare to take action. Whatever you are in contact with, with whichever part of you, is a contact with the Earth. From time to time notice the contact with you feet, and notice your contact with the sitting bones. Let us have an awareness of the Earth day, your connection with the ground. Which part of the elephant are you in relationship with today? Are you practising monkey by bending the knees first or letting the head lead and tilting at the hips first? Are you emphasising direction or playing more with inhibition? It does not matter which. Maybe a day of summer when the fruits of your labours are shining for all to see and you can languidly inhabit some new place as if you have known it all along. Which season do you perceive yourself to be in? Perhaps you are having a day of winter when nothing seems to happening, waiting for the moment to arrive. It is like the sea with big waves and little waves and never still.Īutumn and Spring are very Alexandrian seasons full of change, letting go of old leaves, albeit beautiful flame coloured leaves, and readying the tree and plants for new growth, brilliant greens and yellows. Sometimes just witnessing your own breathing is joy enough. It’s so rare to be stuck, to be lost, to not have the answer. Maybe the old way doesn’t seem right anymore, but the new way is not so easy to find and you are in this stuck place.
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