The Alexander Technique and Focusing
a person's life. And our question is, can we access the body's own wisdom to change this deeply embodied habit? This experience shows us that the windpipe has its own knowing of how it would like to be if it could, and that it has its own way of asserting itself towards this end. At the same time it is clear that the larger story needs to be explored of why the jaw is the way it is. There is a story, a story of how the young boy kept himself safe by not speaking. He learned to control his responses by holding back and tightening his jaw. What kept him safe in early life has now become a destructive force when he relaxes and lets go of control as in sleep.
Focusing brings the whole thing to life. By embracing what we do with a Focusing attitude and just sitting with it with wanting to get to know it better, it shows us what it does and at the same time shows us what is possible. I believe that change happens when functioning is brought to full consciousness in this way. I am attempting to bridge two worlds using what has been gifted to me from both. Focusing works well in conjunction with another discipline like this. In whole Body Focusing a sense of "Me Here" seems to be reinforced and strengthened at the very core of this process. It is like the "me here" muscle gets exercised!
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Kevin McEvenue is a certifying Coordinator of the International Focusing Institute as well as an Alexander teacher. He has developed a powerful and unique way to help people access the healing power of their embodied self-awareness that brings change in the sense of self and its functioning at the very core of its being. Email: mcevenue@ica.net
For more information about Focusing, visit the Foscusing Institute Web Site at http://www.focusing.org
For more information about the Alexander Technique, visit http://www.alexandertechnique.com
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