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Rushing Forward, Staying Back You probably remember me saying, over and over, “stay back.” If you think about the movement of getting out of a chair, what I am asking is that you prevent your back (remember, your back is the entire torso from the bottom of the pelvis to the top of the spine) from overtaking your head as you move forward. This has nothing to do with the movement you are making, the position of your body in space, or the speed of your movement. Staying back has everything to do with the relationship between your back and your head. If, on the contrary, your back rushes forward and overtakes your head as you move, you will, at that moment, have shortened your spine by pulling your head into your back. Staying Back Is Not an Action When I ask you to stay back, I am not asking you to do something new, but rather to avoid doing something old, a habit, as you perform a gesture such as getting into or out of a chair. In the early stages of your lessons you will probably not be able to do things while staying back. This is because refraining from rushing forward will feel so wrong you won’t be able to stop yourself and complete the activity, or you will use more tension than usual to hold yourself back, which is decidedly not what we are looking for. Some people will believe themselves to be free of the habit of rushing forward. While I would not deny the possibility, I would encourage you to remember the principle of faulty sensory awareness. Again, it is best not to try to do anything right, or to change what you are doing. Your time would be better spent acting as an unbiased observer of yourself.
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