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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• almost 3 years ago

Without realising it, most people have a tendency to become 'fixated' in many ways that cause them harm. Alexander Technique brings about an altered state of consciousness through a kind of mindfulness while in activity. This state enables new choices outside of the fixations.

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

A common manifestations of this 'non-fixation' is posture improvement, which is how AT is usually taught. A 'good' posture is one that's lively and not stuck in any one pattern Most teachers work with 'unfixating' the body and the mind follows. I go directly via the mind.

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

hmm I like this approach 1) problem definition 2) AT addresses this problem 3) how 4) benefit the problem I have is that the problem itself is hard to describe. that's why AT is hard to describe.

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

fixation is the best word I've found so far, and is used in Buddhist circles, but is not exactly day to day language would be good to find more accessible ways of describing what I mean there day to day examples, etc

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

how to articulate that problem and the benefits of solving it in a way that people will intuitively grasp? that is the $1m question

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Matt@mattdsegal• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @m_ashcroft

@m_ashcroft a kind of caching? in computer science caching is where you come up with a solution and store it for later so you don't need to come up with it again

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Matt@mattdsegal• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @mattdsegal

@m_ashcroft the problem with caching is knowing when to regenerate the answer from scratch - if the knowledge-cache is "stale" then you've got the wrong answer and you can't correct it until you decide to "invalidate" the cache and recompute the answer

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Matt@mattdsegal• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @mattdsegal

@m_ashcroft so caching can very efficient because it spares you excess work in regenerating the answer over and over but it's bad because you need to know when to throw the old answer away

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Matt@mattdsegal• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @mattdsegal

@m_ashcroft caching in plain language might be... "holding on to old answers"?

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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• almost 3 years ago
Replying to @mattdsegal

@mattdsegal oh yeah I like this it's the pattern of defaulting to an existing known response, but crucially of not knowing that that's what you're doing

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