Exercising more choice over how you come across
Glasgow-based Alexander-Technique instructor Paul Marsh has just posted a great blog about the connection between our body language habits and the way people perceive us and respond to us.
More importantly, he shows how we can re-gain more control over this process by applying the Alexander-Technique:Many people are unconscious of the postural habits that take over when they’re in conversation.It’s often fascinating to be shown how you can exercise a greater level of choice over how you respond to situations, and to be less of a slave to unconscious habit.
This has far reaching implications, from improving posture (and ridding yourself of problems like a sore knee or back) to approaching situations of all kinds in a more spontaneous, fresh and creative way, including social situations.
(...) And if you practice Alexander Technique already, you’ll find it a bit easier to let your whole body just come into a natural, non-held state of poise.
Read the entire blog post »at the embodied thoughts blog
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