Elevating Fear To Professional Heights

She put up her hand, volunteering to do an activity.

It's a BodyChance workshop. I am introducing Alexander's discovery to neophytes who are intrigued by the idea of mammalian evolution.

NOT.

"I'm too scared to travel in Elevators and subway trains - can you show me how?"

Once, I would have gone into a panic.

Me? Help with that? How could I use Alexander's discovery to turnaround a deep-seated fear like that? Am I a counselor? A therapist? NO.

So…

So!

Here's a woman frightened, scared of elevators and subway trains, needing help. Do I have to wiggle out of it, telling her she needs "professional" help?

Which makes me, what?

Nice thing about being a communicator of Alexander's discovery is - Joe Public has no idea exactly what we do. Neither does half our profession, but let's not go there.

We're in a time and an age where existential pain is far outweighing the physical variety.

Our real market is depression, not back pain.

The ascendance of "mindfulness" as a commercial product is pudding proof that there's a need for something beyond "changing habits of use" (yawn).

But what do you do?

Do you think getting a freaked-out-by-elevators student to pop in and out of a chair for 20 minutes - while playing gymnastics with her mind - is going to cut it with her?

I doubt it. Then how?

It's been a puzzle for me most of my teaching life. I didn't realize I was cutting edge until Ed Maisel turned up in my life, telling me I was the only person he knew looking at this stuff in the AT community.

Of course, that was back in the 1980s, and yes, I was Avant-garde back then. Now there are many teachers exploring existentialism in their Alexander lessons in a direct and meaningful way.

But where do you train for that?

Well, I just spent the last 30+ years of my life developing a system based on the old man's story, my own life and universal principles of transformation.

You can study that. You can start exploring how by following my system. It's called ThinkingBody, and it's available now.

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