Taking a Stand with Awareness
up letting you see yourself from the side, spend a few minutes taking a fresh look at yourself. Drop any concern about the usual reasons for using a mirror - your hair, your make-up, the fit of your clothes - and just take in the way this "stranger" stands and compare it to what it feels like.
You might make some very important and useful discoveries about yourself!
*Not his real name
F. M. Alexander, the originator of the Alexander Technique, made extensive use of mirrors in his search for more accurate information about himself. You can read a clearly-written account of the processes he used in his third book, The Use of the Self. Jeremy Chance, an Australian teacher of the Alexander Technique has some useful suggestions for using a mirror in his book, Throson's Principles of the Alexander Technique. Both books are available at the Alexander Technique Bookstore, http://www.alexandertechnique.com/books
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