Tip 1 – Your Body Is a Spring
28 Mar 2010
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Think of your body as an archer’s bow, or a spring. Avoid pulling your body together.
As shown in the diagram, even as the bow is compressed, it continues to seek expansion. The ends of the bow never seek each other. Whether standing tall or bending, thinking of your body as an archer’s bow can make you stronger, and it can also make movement easier because it allows for more internal space. You can see a video of this concept at Tip 68.
More on the Value of Expansion:
Video: Bending, keep Your Head away from Your Heels
Video: How to Rise More Easily from a Chair
A Robert Rickover Podcast: How the Alexander Technique Can Help Spondylitis.
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sir,
this spring idea is very confusing to me and iam in delution with this idea.
since,
it leads me to doing
but not non doing .
thank you.
sir,
i will try to think this idea when iam free.
thank you.
sir,
in the above photo the middle figure is very good, and i liked that.
that is not making any confusing in thinking alex directions.
the first and third figure i cant think and i cant confuse my directions.
thank you.
sir,
sorry for my third comment.
the first and fourth figure i likes.
and 2nd and 3 rd figures are may create delution on my body parts in thinking alexander directions.
thank you.
God given,
atlanto occipital joint,hip joints, knee joints …. Etc , for to remember and use them.
But not,
for to forget and misuse them.