Smart Phone Mental Lock

Simon Cowell - the bitchy judge from Britain's Got Talent - recently announced he hadn't touched his Smart Phone for ten months. I guess it a lark of the elite NOT to HAVE a smart phone these days.

And in this same week, Apple announced - at its Developers Conference - that it will deploy new software in iOS 12 system to help alleviate the addictive behaviours that these devices are encouraging.

These days at BodyChance, Smart Phones are a favourite activity.

And this is how I discovered the Smart Phone Mental Lock.

This is a condition burrowing from the concept of peripersonal space, the ability of our brain to extend its definition of "Self" to include anything we are using, wearing or holding in our sweet little hands.

Our smartphone is getting mapped into a part of Self.

And then locked in, and not always intelligently so. I discovered this in class this week - at yet another request for help while using a smartphone.

As I watched my student doing her things, I noticed how "locked" into the phone she became. It was a sub-pattern of use that suppressed modulating postural tone, replacing it with a stoic and fixed positional holding position.

Times like these, I love the specific knowledge I have of our muscular system.

I was a reluctant student of anatomy - in fact, it was only when I took on the job of training teachers, that I took on the job of training my Self.

I always believe that the best way to learn anything is to teach to people a little dumber about it than you. That's what I did.

I spent the first ten years of BodyChance teaching my trainees how our bones, joints muscles and ranges of movement translate into the various activities they presented to me in class. This is Alexander anatomy, not the stuff of Universities.

Then I created a two-year certificate course out of that - BodyThinking - and made it one of the essential modules of my Japanese school. After five years of that, I wanted to get this course online.

It took time in class to deliver all the Alexander insights I had gained from teaching BodyThinking, and with 138 trainees it started to be inefficient - and impractical - to impart all this knowledge in live classes.

And so - over two years - I created BodyThinking Online, my final expression of over 40 years of teaching and discovering how we move to do what we do.

This is now available publicly, and this month I will be sharing some of those insights, and inviting you to join me in the course and supercharge your teaching.

No need to spend 40 years, let me save you a whole lot of time!

It isn't cheap - nothing worthwhile ever is.

https://bodychance.mykajabi.com/store/oTZvjLye

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