The Amazing Thing About Awareness – Part II

We last left Chancer as a two-year-old with third-degree burns, rehabilitating his legs in hospital by immobilising them for three months. 

Phew!

By the time I arrived in London 18 years later - to start my Alexander training - my legs were a long way from my mind. For years I fell into the trap of telling my executive mind to "remember my legs".

We do this in all kinds of way in trying to manage our coordination.

It wastes a colossal amount of energy.

It is not only the Posture enthusiasts - with their tiring "sit-up-straight" or "stand tall" commands who fall into this category of black hole energy depletion – even sophisticated Alexscovery teachers can fall into this awareness trap. As I did.

The trap is simple – thinking is not awareness.

Awareness exists – of course – but it isn't manufactured or produced by direct conscious intention.

Awareness exists as an unintended byproduct of an integrated movement plan.

It's proof of the pudding, not the pudding itself.

Simple asking for the awareness to come into existence for you, is like telling the night to get brighter. Really? Can you do that?

When awareness of a part of your Self doesn't appear to exist – telling your Self to include it is a waste of time. Instead, see it as evidence that your movement plan needs the addition of unrecognised elements. 

I discovered is that I don't need to be aware of my legs when I am moving in an integrated way. My legs just appear. I don't need to tell my Self where they are, or think about them – they are fully present all the time.

You can experience this (almost magical) phenomenon with a well-thought-out movement plan. Which is what I put into BodyThinking Online – how to analyse, integrate and apply an Alexander plan that produces awareness of the kind we need.

Effective movement plans produce a delicious sense of your whole Self.

Ineffective movement plans produce a sense of missing parts.

Knowing how to produce specific movement plans that address the unique characteristics of an individual - your Self or Others - requires an ability to analyse movements at a more exact level.

BodyThinking Online – together with my live coaching and Facebook access – offers you precisely that - a chance to upgrade your skills in being able to analyse movement effectively and design a movement plan that produces holistic awareness. 

To be able to know what is missing when it is missing.

This month you have an exceptional opportunity to sign up for BodyThinking Online - my online course for Pro Trainees in BodyChance.

In addition to the course, you can attend three live coaching sessions with me over the next three months, and view many previous coaching sessions.

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Read more about all this at the link below – including pricing. 

My offer closes on December 31st.

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