My Mother Forced Me to Come

It was out of the mouth of a 9-year-old, speaking to a Reporter from the South China Morning Post.

The event this child was so reluctantly forced to attend was dubbed the ‘Hong Kong Way’ - it involved an estimated 135,000 people forming a 60km chain of people in circles around Hong Kong. And her mother forced her to do it.

Your human brain is designed to delegate response-ability to an entity outside of itself immediately.

Small frightened dogs, or Giraffes on the run – it’s the same. Danger is OUTSIDE.

Danger can’t come from INSIDE, from in YOUR brain itself – how does that make any sense?

Preservation is biologically wired deep into us. It is a violation that your brain assigns itself as a cause. That kind of brain leads to suicide. No, better to blame mum and get angry about it.

And Posture goes the same way, even in such a common, simple expression as:

“My back is killing me.” 

Really? How does a ‘back’ do that?

Assigning cause where cause doesn’t belong can give you relief from guilt, but it doesn’t dissolve your pain. Your pain and suffering continue, and THAT is the salient point. As Buddha once remarked, if you are suffering from an arrow wound, you don’t care why it is there, you care about getting the arrow out.

And that is true in Posture.

Students often ask me: “Why did I go wrong? How did I learn to misuse my Self?” 

But that doesn’t matter. 

What matters is how you are using your Self, what you are doing now. And there is an actual cause, a ‘true fact’ as they have to say in politics these days. It is contained within Alexander’s discovery – the way our head/spine relationship calibrates our other systems (breathing, circulation, digestion etc.)

This is what good Alexscovery teachers teach – the sensation of head/spinal organization. Paleo-Posture I have been calling it these days. The deep-down brain-related movement upon which all else depends.

BodyChance teachers train for a minimum of four years, sometimes 8~10 years. They learn to use their touch to communicate the experience of that head/spinal control over you. It feels different, whole – and people usually smile and say they feel good.

You can come to a week-long residential in Golden Week to experience this first hand.

More about that here:

https://atsuccess.com/alexander-discovery-workshop-japan-jeremy-chance.html