Namaste: From the highest in me to the highest in you

Alexander Technique Mindfulness

Covid-19  is forcing us to invent new ways to greet one another that do not involve the skin to skin contact that could so easily spread a deadly contagion. Namaste! Is a venerable and noble gesture originating from ancient India. When the two hands open apart and then come together ...

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The Meaning of Distraction

Alexander Technique Mindfulness

I want to consider what role distraction has played in what has led up to this current crisis. The word itself reveals very important clues. Breaking  the word “distraction” down into its roots reveals:”dis’’ means “away”:  the connotation of absence, while “-traction" means ‘to pull’, ‘drag’, ‘to draw away’. ...

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The medium is the message

Alexander Technique Mindfulness

The Amsterdam Light Festival 2018-2019    On the canal bank opposite to The American Hotel in Amsterdam stands a huge, ancient tree. It was recently revealed that trees communicate with each other. They form interconnected networks. Trees relay underground messages to each other by using a media, such as fungi in ...

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Only Reconnect: Answers that do not lie “out there”

Alexander Technique Barefoot Running Mindfulness

It is only over the last thirty years that the World Wide Web of the Internet has developed. The interconnected digitised web of the Internet is an abstract and disembodied symbolic world. It has created an enormously attractive set of human possibilities that are extraordinarily compelling and attention-grabbing to the ...

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The Right Order of Priority

Alexander Technique Barefoot Running Mindfulness

Inner and outer worlds   To become fully human combines an inner and an outer world. Inner and outer aspects obey quite different rules and laws. Importantly there is also a right order or priority in which inner and outer co-operate. With the right priorities established, the inner and outer come ...

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