Home Alone – What Do I Do?

A strange thing is happening at BodyChance.

More people are showing up for classes. Why?

Because so many things have been cancelled. 

Schools, Disneyland, Events of large people – all gone. Compared to these massive places of congregation, BodyChance is tiny. Plenty more people are in a train carriage than you'll find in a BodyChance class.

I guess people feel safe here.

COVID-19 is a serious concern. 

And it is easy for people to lose perspective because our deep brains can't manage grey – we only do black and white, nothing in-between. Which is unfortunate, because people's brains are causing them a lot of worrying thoughts, when a little conscious, constructive thinking would be more practical.

Influenza ("the flu") and COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, are both infectious respiratory illnesses. 

Although the symptoms of COVID-19 and the flu can look similar, the two illnesses are caused by different viruses. At the moment, other than severe restrictions, nothing can prevent the spread of COVID-19 - whereas there are vaccines that can prevent the spread of influenza. 

The task now facing society is to slow the spread of COVID-19 so we have time to prepare for the disruptions it will cause. 

In the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, influenza kills approximately 18,000 people annually. As of Mar. 2, 2020, the flu is showing much more of an impact on Americans than COVID-19. I suggest you search in your own country and grasp the proportional size of influenza and COVID-19 for reference.

We are prepared for Influenza – practically and emotionally. Although you could catch it in any given year, mostly you don't. There are vaccines, hospital support and less hysteria if you do catch it. 

But COVID-19 is like an alien that just dropped out of the sky.

We are scared because it is a new kind of influenza, a different virus. And remember - your brain doesn't do grey. It does "really scary" or "nothing to worry about" whereas the reality sits inconveniently between those too.

Which is why Alexander's Discovery can be of such help in a time like this.

BodyChance's students are using this time to discover more deeply how conscious, constructive thinking helps you manage the fears and lack of information around this situation we are all in together.

Fear lives in your Postural Movement; it lives in the relationship between your head and spine. The process of managing fear must move from the concrete to the abstract. Concrete: means knowing what you are doing with your body - to abstract: means noticing which thoughts are disrupting your coordinating.

You start by questioning those thoughts.

A thought – or belief - that dislocates your primary coordination becomes constructive when you seek ways to understand and remedy the stress it causes you.

For years I have been working both in Japan and overseas to encourage Alexscovery teachers to start working online. My ATSuccess inspired the largest online school in the world and several others. I am behind a lot of the innovation you see, albeit quietly so.

Now maybe an ideal time for you to entertain that possibility.

I am back coaching every month and have assembled an impressive array of tools designed explicitly for Alexscovery teachers to help them discover how to teach and build an online business.

Last year several people took me up on the offer of joining my BodyThinking Online course and coaching. I am opening up that offer again. This course gives you the "concrete" part of exploring how fear expresses itself into your movement system.

Take a look at the explanation and the offer via the link below.

Now could be a great time to dive in...

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