This Link has some food for thought to get your brain changing.

http://www.openforum.com/articles/the-power-of-the-mind-how-to-train-yourself-to-be-more-successful

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8789.html

Lockdown mode while writing this blog

Let’s say that everyone in their pursuit of perfection and attempt to do a good job in life tends to squeeze in on their musculoskeletal system. Your brain is telling your body to buckle up and bear down for this important task you are about to perform. This can happen if you’re doing something you’re passionate about, or during ordinary tasks like tying your shoe. Let’s call this bearing down quality locking.

Locking yourself into a task or position results in pulling your vertebrae closer together and holding your breath.

Don’t take my word for it. Notice for yourself.

Simply unlocking yourself  lets the space containing those living discs full of magic goo between all your vertebrae expand.

Keep it simple. Breathe. Look around.

Not locking while living and performing is just that. Not locking. Just as when you’re not holding your breath,  your breath is not being held and is therefore free to come and go.

There’s nothing to “do”. It’s about undoing.

Don’t try to unlock yourself. Just unlock yourself and keep not locking as you live, perform, and move.

By unlocking yourself you are automatically creating space in your whole system to grow into a quality with more flow.

Practice finding a rhythm in these kinds of choices. And keep it free, light, and simple people.

Unlocking choice while writing this blog

This dog is excited because it’s Alexander Technique Awareness Week!

Do something for yourself and book a session with me.

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has determined that back pain can be reduced by 85% by using the technique.

Be Aware!

What is Alexander Technique ? from Channon Hodge on Vimeo.

In this direct little article Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D. recommends the Alexander Technique for artists, people in pain, and people with excessive tension. Dr. Weil also answers some commonly asked questions about the Alexander Technique. Read, enjoy, and then call me for a lesson!

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART03204/Alexander-Technique.html

In this short and sweet follow up to the NPR story that aired a few weeks ago Dr. Mark Borigini, of Psychology Today, lays out many of the benefits Alexander can provide for both people in pain and performing artists. As Dr. Borigini points out, The Alexander technique is a great “cost- saving alternative”, helps people in “appreciating the body’s warning signs of tension and compression”, and is used by artists “as a method of enhancing performance and avoiding injury.”

This article titled Alternative Therapies for Back Pain by Loren Fishman, MD was published in the Huffington Post Health section on April 6, 2011. Fishman calls the Alexander Technique “probably the single best treatment” for Spinal Stenosis. He also says Alexander “can work wonders with posture.”

On Monday, March 28th, 2011 Morning Edition on NPR ran a 4 minute piece about the benefits of the Alexander Technique for performers and people with back pain. Listen to the podcast here with Sarah Varney reporting from KQED in San Francisco.