« Alexander built his reputation in Australia on his ability to help people improve their breathing. Not to put too fine a point on it, he taught people to breathe, and he taught them to breathe better than anybody else in sight. »
« The only way you’ll get a releasing process is if you stop. This is the whole problem, because people can have hundreds of lessons and still not be taking the time to allow the release to happen. »
« If you can help people get the breathing functioning more freely, you will have done more to help them over their emotional and psychological hang-ups that could be done by anybody else working in any other way that I know. »
« The reasoned-out indirect approach may take many forms, but it is the constant principle upon which to work, and it will take you further than any end-gaining attempt. »
« It’s terribly easy to form a concept and imagine something and kid ourselves that we really know all about it and what it is like, when we can’t possibly know all about it until we’ve actually realized it. »
« You’ve got this ongoing flow of energy that is seeking to take you up against all the downward forces, and going up is what happens when you release the neck. »
« So much of our thinking, like so much of our movement, and so much of our life, tends to lack energy. »
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« People imagine that their bodies are disobedient and unreliable at carrying out their wishes, whereas nothing could be further from truth. »
« The target that we are aiming at is the state of affairs when neck to be free, head to go forward and up, back to lengthen and widen, knees to go forward and away expresses a belief and an attitude toward life that is perfectly natural. When you have managed to do that, then don’t imagine you have really accomplished very much. All that you have really done is that you are in a situation where some accomplishment is possible. »