Being A Posture Detective - Part II

My knee was starting to hurt. 

This was 35 years ago, and my knee had been starting to play up. One day was so bad - it throbbing at night. I was only a fresh young teacher of Alexander's discovery at the time; and a little embarrassed that I even had this problem!

Are teachers of Posture supposed to be perfect?

Ahh…

NO. 

We are not.

Because LIFE is not perfect. Life is full of stress: accidents; and deaths; and arguments; and deadlines - whose life is free of all that? 

No-one.

Alexander's discovery is not a panacea to life. Life goes on; you get stressed. Its what to do when you get stressed - that is what you can learn at BodyChance.

Stress - especially mental stress - affects your Posture profoundly. You can feel tension; your eyes get tired; your back hurts; you have no energy - all these are issues of Mental Stress and Posture. Two sides of the same thing.

And a knee that hurts. 

What did I do? First, I asked a detective's question:

"My knee hurting now - what am I doing recently that is different?"

Whenever you get a new pain, there is a reason. Cause and effect. Nothing in this world happens without there being a cause. However, we often cannot understand or discover the cause. Still, step one is to consider what the cause may be…

As I thought about it - I remembered!

I had a new car. 

Being a young man at the time - I'd bought myself a low slung Fiat sports car. Getting out of the driver's seat was difficult. I was twisting my knee to do it!

At that time I found an obvious behaviour to change. And as I changed the way I was getting out of my sports car, my knee slowly started to recover.

I thanked my knee for showing me I needed to change my behaviour.

Pain is there to tell you to investigate. It is saying "Be a Posture Detective for me." If you what to learn how to be a Posture Detective, then sign up for BodyChance’s Golden Week residential next year in May, 2020.
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