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I'll start! It helped that after my first lesson I felt like my teacher had surreptitiously slipped me some wonderful drug 😂 I felt expansive, light, happy, the world was incredibly vivid, colourful and had a new kind of depth to it. I didn't *understand it*, but I *got* it. https://t.co/tKuZ8ICeQo
It took a while for it to fully click, of course, and it continues to click in new and interesting ways as I learn more about it. But being shown all the ways in which I was 'checking out' of full, present moment consciousness and going somewhere in my head showed me what it is
And then once I realised how much of the time I was not really here, I started to get curious about when and why I would check out like this it basically happens at the beginning of some automatic response - sitting, standing, talking, working, etc
then I learned from Alexander Technique that I could notice when that thing was about to happen and, for want of a better phrase, 'decline to give consent to it' and when I realised THAT I understood that what I was learning was a tool for developing human agency
I will leave a link for more writing here for the curious https://t.co/HQQudcOm0r