How To Niche from the Inside Out

Alexander's discovery needs to live in a form.

Otherwise, it ceases to exist, or worse - gets distorted and skewered into some form of robotic "rightness" of use. Alexandroids.

No thanks.

It needs to live inside something - it can't breathe on its own. Form and emptiness.
Then you decide: what's the form? You have to invent it. FM did his best with HOBC, monkey, whispered AH. In his earlier writings, he had "door exercise" and "chair exercise".

Good old FM. He didn't let the Alexander Technique get in the way of a good marketing strategy now, did he?

These days, those teaching procedures are feeling their age. Some have morphed into being almost harmful - as I wrote a few days ago of my personal experiences with "monkey".

Still, 100+ years and counting - isn't it time to come up with something else?

How do you invent it?

I'd love to say "easy" but actually, it's not. You must drill deep, know your stuff, and add lashes of creativity.

Step One

Find a "form" you love.

That's why musicians take to Alexander's discovery so quickly: they have that one figured out. Play the violin, stupid. THAT's the form. (Or sax, piano, flute, oboe, guitar, horn, cello, trombone, choir, drums - thank God for Beethoven!)

Step One Revisited

I don't have a "form" I love.

Now you're into new territory. Without a "skilful physical activity" you have to start looking at other issues and areas of human behaviour, areas which don't seem to immediately lend themselves to Alexander's discovery.

How do you free your neck when your husband is leaving you for a young hussy? Who even cares about their frigging neck at a time like that?!

Mental stress - are you able to directly help people with this?

It's no good saying stupid things like: "Oh, when you have less tension in your body, you can cope better with your wife sleeping with the hunk next door."

No-one wants to hear that. They want to hear how they can slog the hunk next door without getting their nose broken.

You gotta be RELEVANT.

And that means, really understand human behaviour. Empathy.

Alexander's discovery - weirdly - does NOT give you that skill. Alexander's discovery is the thing that tells you change is needed, it is not the thing that tells you how to make that change.

I've been obsessed with figuring how to make that change - having been saddled in life with a lot of less than wonderful behaviours. The most amazing tool I came across over 30 years ago was the Discovery Compass - or Process Enneagram for the folks who know J. G. Bennett.

That's what I am offering in my new online program.

How this tool works with Alexander's story, which is how you figure out how it works with your story, and theirs. Now you can talk about the hunk next door, and turn it around. For him and the wife.

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