Posture & Food – What is the Relationship?

“Dearie the brown bread has ever so much more nourishment for the people than that beastly white stuff… [later] …The food there is certain to be pretty bad & I cannot eat bad food. I can do with ever so little but I can’t stand bad stuff.”

Letters to his wife Edith, April 1917
F. Matthias Alexander, "Letters – Volume 1", p. 21,22 (Mouritz, 2020).

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Yeah, white bread is trash.

But how many people thought that in 1917?

How did Alexander’s study of Posture lead him to his behaviour around eating?

Most people do not have the behavioural ability to avoid eating habits that do them no good. Are you able to say no to crap food? Are you able to just eat a little and leave it at that? 

Stop reading if you can say yes to both！

It seems like the founder of the Alexander Technique developed that ability.

I think of FM Alexander as I would think about the founder of a martial art in Japan.  The great martial artists are psychological warriors – they know more than just how to fend off an attack, or disable an enemy. 

They master the energy of their life.

FM’s insights into Posture were insights into the essence of what makes us human. 

FM’s work is essentially about our reactions to life; how we can exercise restraint and redirect our responses. For the martial artist – response control is the essence of skill development. 

A martial art is a life-living skill, not a merely physical skill.

Posture is also a life-living skill, not something merely physical.

The skill is the ability to know what you want, and then be able to do it.

However, that kind of control does not come from will or force – it grows out of an understanding of your design. Just like a martial artist, the study of Posture is the study of many different movements.

While a martial artist might study how to slide a person over their back, in your BodyChance lessons you are learning:

- how you walk, 
- how you sit and stand, 
- how you use your breath to speak and sing, 
- how you play a musical instrument, 
- how you talk in front of people, 
- how you manage your Posture during a job interview.

Just like the martial artist, in Alexander’s Technique you can spend time studying the obvious. It is detailed, specific work concerning your anatomical truths – both of structure and of function.

And through this work you notice how you react to chocolate cake. You notice how you coordinate when you eat too fast, or too much. Alexander’s discovered how your head/spine calibrates all our moving systems, including digestion. 

These skills grow through knowledge - and practice.

At BodyChance, the knowledge comes from BodyThinking Online – the three modules of 5 lessons each, which go through every aspect of your design. 

It comes from watching Greg Holdaway apply the information with students in the bonus Super-Sized BodyThinking course included in this offer.

If comes from listening to Jeremy answer questions and show applications in the 5 BT coaching sessions, that are also part of this package.

And it comes from seeing how this work is put to use by some of the teachers in BodyChance’s “How to Teach Online (by example)” with Cathy Madden, Lucia Walker, Malcolm Balk, Greg Holdaway and others.

All this has retailed in the past for a total of $1,879. Just make a first payment of $140 to get instant access to BodyThinking Online, followed by 4 more payments of the same amount.

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