Beware Your Fake Bespoke Movement Plan

Those who have been following my current exploration of the BodyThinking Online service – where I advocate the ability to analyse and develop Bespoke Movement Plans - might wonder why they should care about Fake Bespoke Movement Plans?

Good question.

You shouldn't care if you're happy with the skills you have. 

Or if you are a little lazy and hap dash – yes, you can find better things to do. 

This is not for you.

Who is it for?

Firstly, the curious.

Secondly, the challenged.

Finally, the stressed.

And if you happen to be curious, challenged and stressed all at the same time – well Possum, you just arrived in your version of heaven.
 
First, the curious.

When you want to get better at something – what's your plan for doing that?

Concerning a physical skill, most people think 'Practice!' and this is correct. Nothing replaces putting in the time. However...

How intelligent is your use of practice time?

Some people practice and practice – hours, days, months at a time – and see very little progress for all that effort. It's like they are hitting a ceiling and never getting beyond it. Don't you wonder why that is so?

Second, the challenged.

You hit the ceiling because there are invisible things you are doing – invisible to you. Not invisible to an Alexscovery teacher with a bit of anatomical know. I know I am blind to me – it's part of our design to be that way. It is hard to see your Self, and it is even harder to see the things you don't even know to look for!

What are these things?

You might call them movement ticks, or psychological gestures or even bad ideas expressed as movements. Maybe a teacher once told you to send your back, back; or to pull your head up with a string from the top; or you were told to send the knees away from each other. Etc etc. – there are as many Fake Bespoke Movement Plans as there are incompetent teachers.

Teachers – who know little of the anatomical underpinnings of successful coordination – are spouting nonsense like this all the time. Which means: you are already full of Bespoke Movement Plans – the trouble is, most of them are Fake.

Whatever your Fake Bespoke Movement Plans are now – they are most likely the reason you fail to develop. You put in more and more effort, and end up with the same condition getting worse. If this is not true of you, it is almost certainly true of for a lot of people. Which leads us to...

Finally, the stressed.

Usually, it takes stress before you – or your student - will choose a new action. When the pain of staying the same exceeds the inertia of change, you act.

You act to identify invisible damaging movements, i.e. Fake Bespoke Movement Plans that are holding back your development. The more you do these movement plans, the more you keep getting the same results.

As most of Chancer's readers know - the key to Alexander's Discovery is that you must alter what you are doing in a way that will initially feel weird to you.

Feel weird?!

Yes, you read that right.

Because if what feels normal to you is the reason you don't develop, then the solution can only be to start looking for weird. And whoever does that?

This is why it is so impossible to change on your own. 

Who would do the thing that felt weird - to be normal?!

An Alexscovery teacher – or student – with enough humility to admit when they are wrong, that's who.

Which is why this month's offer is such a good one. Not only do you get three live coaching sessions to use over three months, but you also gain access to a Pro-Level course on how to analyse movements infused with Alexander's great insights.

Pay attention over these last days of the month, as I will start giving you specific examples that highlight how ignorant we can become of the most obvious things.

Read more about what is on offer, and how it can help you, at the link where you can also purchase access to BodyThinking Online, and get your live coaching sessions:

https://bodychance.mykajabi.com/store/oTZvjLye