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“Imagination is more important then knowledge" . “Change is carrying out and activity against the habit of a lifetime”. No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it". " We consider concern for our health someone else's business and hope that doctors will be good enough to relieve us of the chore." “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and this is your own self”. “The Alexander Technique is not a method of accumulating information, nor the art of learning something new. It is, instead, the art of unlearning, which is much more subtle and, sometimes, a more difficult endeavor – unlearning that which is habitual, instead of natural; letting go of old patterns and of those repetitious opinions arrived at in times an circumstances totally different from those of the present”. “I was brought up to believe that the harder I tried, the more I would learn. In my Alexander lessons this strategy simply did not work. I could not do anything to improve my balance; I had to learn about non-doing. At first this was baffling, but I went on to discover that the solution to many seemingly difficult tasks is not to ‘try harder’ but to leave oneself alone. The key to learning something new is often in preventing unwanted responses, which leads to the discovery of appropriate effort. My organism now appears to be capable of much more than I had ever imagined it could be-so long as I do not get in the way”. " You can't do something you don't know if you keep on doing what you do know" . "We can throw away the habit of a lifetime in a few minutes if we use our brains" . " Control should be in process, not superimposed" . " When an investigation comes to be made, it will be found that every simple thing we are doing in the Work (Alexander Technique) is exactly what is being done in Nature where the conditions are right, the difference being that we are learning to do it consciously" . " Preventing the things you are been doing and you are half way home". |
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