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1/ Refering to "when you stop doing the wrong things, the right thing does itself." What does this mean? Here's an example: allowing yourself to walk without imposing your idea of what walking is like. Some people might recognise what follows as Alexander Technique. (thread) https://t.co/LZKA1v0D7P
3/ Now fast forward however many decades. You're walking down the street and your back hurts. Your posture is bad. So you try pulling your shoulders back, or you puff out your chest, or you pull your stomach in. You back still hurts. These are all the wrong thing.
4/ There's nothing that you can *do* to get back to your natural walk, because every form of conscious interference is another kind of wrong. Your conscious mind isn't the part of you that walks naturally, it just involved itself in walking at some point in your development.
5/ The way out of this trap is to stop interferring. Stop doing all the wrong things. This is a difficult but learnable skill that applies in all areas of life. When you get out of your own way, you liberate your unconscious processes. This is the route to ease and lightness.
Meta] If you've come across this thread in isolation and want to go deeper then you might be interested in my 'thread of threads' on the topic. https://t.co/pppidMHSzH
Meta] Also, if you want to dive much deeper into this stuff, I have built what I believe is the only asynchronous online course that explores Alexander Technique from a first principles perspective. You can find out more and stay up to date by going here: https://t.co/GHzsyr4ILq
heh this feels like it belongs here https://t.co/HrZ9TTPitM