The office worker, the conveyor belt engineer, the lorry driver, the mum-bent-over-baby, the dentist, the pianist, carry out occupations for so long that they eventually will hold themselves partially contracted even when they are not involved in the actual pressures of their jobs. The residual tension may not be conscious but eventually it is maintained most of the time. The summation of their various temporary attitudes eventually finds its expression in a posture - or in a limited repertoire of postures, which come to dominate a person's character. In small and at first unobtrusive ways we become enslaved to our past.
Dr Barlow - The Alexander Principle
In my experience one of the challenges of a day-to-day work (secondary school job) is a baggage of physical tensions with their corresponding attitudes, emotions and fixed thinking. That's why I think the release of unnecessary body tensions feels so liberating. I experienced that 2 days ago after the AT lesson with Michelle
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