What Makes Simple Things Hard?

Ken Segall's book "Insanely Simple" had a great line in it - which is about all I remember - but it was worth the read just to get that:

"Simplicity is complex."

Oh yes, I'll buy that! 

Marjorie Barstow – Chancer's true and only real mentor for things Alexander – made a similar kind of comment about Alexander's Discovery:

"This is simple. It's your old habits that make it hard."

Simple things look obvious once you discover them. They are easy to understand, easy to use and don't need much explanation.

Alexander's Discovery is like that.

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I can explain Alexander's Discovery with two easy ideas: 

Idea 1: Pull down your head and spine - then expect to get unhealthy in every kind of way.

Idea 2: Stop pulling down your head and spine, then expect to get healthy in every kind of way.

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Is that simple enough for you?

Of course, people then ask:

"If it's that simple, why does it take so long to train to be a teacher?"

(At BodyChance for example, it will take between 4 to 10 years.)

And that's where we come into Segall's insight:

"Simplicity is complex!"

Or Marj's idea:

"It's our old habits that make it hard."

Because we don't know we don't know. 

How do you change something that you don't even know needs to be replaced?

For example, right now, do you know if you are pulling down or not?

This is the puzzle that gets people to feel that Alexander's Discovery is hard to understand. The truth is it isn't. Alexander's Discovery is simple to understand.

But when you start looking at Idea 2, you quickly get lost.

Because – pulling down is complex. Everyone does it differently.

Not only that, but people don't even know they are pulling down. Sure – they feel sore in the back, tight in the neck, tired, depressed – all those things. But tell them that:

"This is because you are pulling down your head and spine."

And they will wonder: what does that mean? How am I doing that?

Which is why you first must study the actual design of the human movement. 

And you need to be systematic about it.

Because you can help them so much more effectively when you can explain what they are doing - and why it's such a bad idea to do that. 

And these days, people expect an intelligent, well-informed explanation.

They have access to many different kinds of highly trained practitioners who have a good grasp of functional anatomy, even if most of their ideas are terrible. You need to be able to speak clearly about Idea 2.

Which brings me to BodyThinking Online!

BodyChance's course is a systematic way you can start to improve your ability to speak in terms of functional anatomy. 

BodyThinking Online - unlike any other functional anatomy course you may elect to study – is infused with Alexander's simple Discovery. Alexander is the compass that makes sense of anatomy. 

You start to understand things like – we coordinate in a forward-organised way; arms are designed to work in front of you, so why is everyone pulling them back? And why is that something you want to avoid?

And so on.

BodyChance's BodyThinking Online course will supercharge your journey to speak lucidly about the ways people pull-down in a universal language of functional anatomy. Never get laughed at again.

And you have the chance to work with Chancer over the next three months to nail this down in your personal practice.

This month only, it is more than 50% off, without even counting the many bonus courses I am including. 

But only this month, my offer is closing soon.

You can read more about what's on offer and purchase it at this link:

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