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Comment on How Endgaining Can Wreck Your…Self by mckinneypaige

mckinneypaige — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:20:03 +0000

Exactly! I have found that while the endgaining way seems like it will get quicker results, it sometimes actually slows me down and delays the result I seek. A simple example is the time I lost my sunglasses and looked frantically for them, endgaining like mad. When I finally stopped for a moment, I realized that they had been on my head the entire time. If I had stuck with the means whereby, I probably wouldn’t have wasted so much time.

Comment on How Endgaining Can Wreck Your…Self by Padmini Menon

Padmini Menon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:51:51 +0000

I guess the reason why most of us prefer to end gain is that it seems to be a faster way to get what we want. Paying attention to the means whereby can often move our goal so far away that it seems out of sight. Much easier to grab what’s dangling under your nose.
Of course, if we do manage to inhibit and hold out for our ‘real’ goal, by paying attention to the means whereby, we find that it is more satisfying, more enjoyable, and comes with useful and unexpected bonuses along the way!

Comment on Use Affects Functioning: An Illustration by mckinneypaige

mckinneypaige — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:29:30 +0000

Indeed it does! I think it comes as a surprise to many people just how much freedom we actually have to effect change in ourselves. Thank you for commenting.

Comment on Use Affects Functioning: An Illustration by mckinneypaige

mckinneypaige — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:25:30 +0000

Well put, Jennifer! Thanks for your comment. I’m finding more and more that using stories like this to help explain the Technique is more effective than my previous attempts to answer the question, “So, the Alexander Technique…what IS that anyway?”

Comment on Use Affects Functioning: An Illustration by Imogen Ragone

Imogen Ragone — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:23:13 +0000

Completely agree! As the saying goes, “It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it!” – and it really does make all the difference. Alexander Technique provides a highly effective process for changing “way that we do it!”

Comment on Use Affects Functioning: An Illustration by Jennifer Mackerras (@jenactiv8u)

Jennifer Mackerras (@jenactiv8u) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:33:33 +0000

Hi,
This is a lovely post, thank you.
So many of us can learn from FM’s story, and it is my belief as a teacher that pretty much every student comes to the work when they start asking the same question that FM asked his doctor: “is it something that I am doing that is causing my trouble?”
When we begin to unpick the unhelpful movement behaviours and the thinking that precedes them, we discover, like FM, that there is a “close connexion between use and functioning,” and if we improve our manner of use our functioning improves as a consequence.

Comment on The Alexander Technique in the Huffington Post by Alternative Therapies For Back Pain

Alternative Therapies For Back Pain — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:49:24 +0000

[...] PAIGE MCKINNEY COMMENTS: The article [above] offers a good description of the Technique, and a link to an excellent2009 NY Times interview with Paul Little, lead author of the BMJ back pain study. Because the author of the Huffington Post article suggests a mix-and-match approach to “alternative therapies,” I feel compelled to report that from my own experience with back pain, mixing and matching never helped. In fact, it was only when I decreased the number of approaches to dealing with pain that I found relief. Sometimes less is more. [...]

Comment on “My Sources Say No” by mckinneypaige

mckinneypaige — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:08:31 +0000

Thanks Sandra! I’ll get back to writing about more serious topics soon, but wanted to make room for a bit of whimsy.

Comment on “My Sources Say No” by Sandra

Sandra — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:46:08 +0000

Not at all!

Comment on The Alexander Technique in the Huffington Post by sweetopiagirl

sweetopiagirl — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:17:00 +0000

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