Mindfulness
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Reflections, Reminiscence and Leaps of Imagination
Alexander Technique MindfulnessBeautiful light-reflective bubbles. I am up to my elbows in fairy liquid rainbows - washing-up the pots in the deep stainless-steel campsite sink. 52 years ago, in 1968, I stood in exactly the same spot engaged in just the same routine. Things tend to change slowly on a farm. Back in the ...
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Alexander Technique MindfulnessBewildered. Bemused. Here I stand in the lobby of Bashful Alley in the middle of Lancaster. I am surrounded by Posters, Government Warnings and Guidelines. About my feet: sticky black and yellow floor tape-arrows. 'Please do not enter the building if you are… ' 'Stand apart' The 1 metre and 2 metre ...
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MindfulnessSome questions are really great questions. In lots of ways great questions promote a search, a quest and invariably the attempted answer does not match the greatness of the question. "Do we need spirituality"? Came up in the context of a meditation group. In my search for a framework to ...
Read MoreThe stillpoint of the turning world
Alexander Technique MindfulnessHave you noticed how much the word “unprecedented" is bandied around every day by the media? It is as if the current crisis came completely out of the blue! Certainly the Covid-19 pandemic has been preceded by a complex interwoven set of events. It is important to examine these. There ...
Read MoreCORE PRINCIPLES 1
Alexander Technique MindfulnessSlowing down any action can make the ordinary extraordinary. Great art can do that too and it's like turning a base-metal to gold. Any action you make in the world does not begin with muscles twitching and contracting. Much has happened before muscles get in on the act! The beginning ...
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