The Alexander Technique can make you uncomfortable.
Last week I started to write a post about how change, even change for the better, can feel uncomfortable. The post kind of stalled out for a few days, which felt kind of familiar…and comfortable. Until yesterday.
Yesterday I taught my weekly Alexander class. A woman in class made some big changes quickly. At one point I asked her how she felt. With a slight smile, she said “uncomfortable”. I said “great”. When I asked her for more, she said she felt different, weird, and strange; but she felt no discomfort. In fact she felt much better.
We don’t study and practice the Alexander Technique in order to stay the same, and changing can be uncomfortable. We’re used to being in default mode; our comfortable rut. And now we’re feeling something we haven’t felt, noticing things we usually don’t notice. We may become more aware of how we clench our jaw, raise our shoulders, tense our neck, or hold our viewpoints tightly—which can make us clench our jaw, raise our shoulders, and tense our neck.
Alexander Technique enables us have more poise, and less posturing. It’s a comfortable feeling knowing that you’re doing something good for yourself. Apply the AT to change what you want, and keep what you like.
The unconscious becomes conscious, the unfamiliar becomes familiar, and the uncomfortable becomes comfortable.
Mark Josefsberg—Alexander Technique NYC
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