When the Cure Overtakes the Disease

The children are happy.

At least those I see in the morning - as I run along the Meguro river - with their baseball hats and sturdy smiles. 

School is out! 

It's a holiday! 

Their innocent joy is in stark contrast to the times we live in.

These frolicking friendlys are an unexpected addition to the warmer sunny days of the slowly approaching Spring. The sun is telling the cherry trees to blossom, and their beauty can encourage our spirit.

The whole world in a vice of panic. In Japan, this is not the case. The schools were closed, the events cancelled. Businesses were told to operate remotely. When a new cluster was found, the Mayor of the area held a press conference on TV and gave people vivid details of Patient One. Where he worked, what time train he caught home – the station he got on and off, everything he had been doing before the first diagnosis.

But Japan did not shut down its industries. It did not close its restaurants, or order people to stay home. It did not have to spend a trillion dollars to fix a situation it didn't cause. But elsewhere, this is not the case.

Only in war will you see such draconian measures. 

Wars, where millions of people can die. Not thousands, millions.

Will COVID-19 overtake everything we have seen before as a threat to human life?

When our imaginations are let loose, the answer is, of course, a resounding yes: COVID-19 is going to get much, much worse. Millions are going to die. The world as we know it is ending.

Which is rubbish. How can anyone know the future?

Still, my opinion leads me to act responsibly toward others. I understand people are frightened, even if I find no reason for fear. I avoid leaving my area in Tokyo, wash my hands more often, eat nourishing food and sleep well at night.

In Japan, at least, you are statistically more likely to be struck down by lightning than you are to meet someone carrying the virus. Do you know anyone personally who has it? Do you know anyone of your friend's friends who has it?

Experts are consistently wrong in their ability to predict what will happen in the future, a fact that has been documented in study after study for over 30 years now, and still largely ignored! 

It's too preposterous to accept that the experts don't know any more than we do about what will happen in the next few months. 

Still, it remains a well-documented scientific finding.

I am a big fan of the John Hopkins University's GlobalHeathNOW website [https://www.globalhealthnow.org/] Run by scientists, medical experts and engineers – they are carefully crafting a message that is realistic and appropriate. 

When people are angry that the COVID-19 tests are as "leaky as a sieve" – as one politician put it – the Hopkins writers counter with the question:

"Are we asking too much?"

They have articles like:

"Expert Reality Check" and "The Unknown Unknowns".

Alexander was a constant critic of the herd mentality, the way a panic seeds more panic until the reaction starts to overtake the disease by the measure of pain and suffering "the cure" is causing to the members of society.

Now is a perfect time to study how your brain works, to explain why people are more frightened of something that is at the moment statistically less likely to happen to you than dying in a plane accident.

You do have the capacity to gather information and act accordingly. In essence, it is part of your Executive brain function, but it relies on the quality and quantity of information you give it.

Those who have studied Alexander's Discovery have practised in this process. We carry a lot of erroneous ideas around in our head about Posture. They are also harmful in the long term if they remain uncorrected.

BodyThinking is an online course that documents how your movement system works. It's full of surprises and quality information. It fits the two criteria that are necessary to modify behaviour – good quality information in quantity.

No other mammal can engage in this process – something Alexander indicated by naming his first book:

Man's Supreme Inheritance.

It is the ability to think. 

It is the ability to let new information influence your behaviour in constructive ways.

Rather than reading the latest sensation of the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, you'd be better to stay at home and busy your mind by gathering high-quality information in quantities large enough to be a positive influence on your behaviour.

BodyThinking is the course that I assembled at the cost of more than $50,000 and many years of thoughtful work. I usually sell it for around $1,000.

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