{"id":1286,"date":"2017-01-18T06:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T06:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirstenharris.co.uk\/thedailyease\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2017-01-19T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:45:26","slug":"the-naughty-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"The Naughty Step!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had to share this insight from a teenager &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, during a constructive rest session requested by one of the teenage boys at the high school where I teach Alexander Technique, 17 year old Harry quipped-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Semi-supine is like a productive version of the naughty step!<\/p>\n<p>When I was little I would be made to sit on the naughty step &#8230; I was always all hunched up, elbows on my knee, in a rage &#8230; &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Lying down doing Alexander Technique is giving me time out to think about what I have done during the day, the bad decisions I have made and let them go.\u00a0Yup, it is like the productive version of the naughty step!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He continued &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have had some great epiphanies in semi-supine &#8211; like where I have been going wrong and just by taking time out I get an idea about how to do it and when I go back to it it works &#8230; like learning a difficult piece on the guitar, suddenly I can do it&#8230; You wouldn&#8217;t think time out this way would be productive, but it really is!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Out of the mouth of babes!<\/p>\n<p>Constructive rest &#8211; the productive naughty step!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a constructive rest download &#8211; enjoy time out on the &#8216;productive naughty step!&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenharris.co.uk\/bodymagic.html\">CLICK<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenharris.co.uk\/bodymagic.html\">\u00a0NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had to share this insight from a teenager &#8230;.. &nbsp; Yesterday, during a constructive rest session requested by one of the teenage boys at the high school where I teach Alexander Technique, 17 year old Harry quipped- &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/?p=1286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,24,49,57,14,75,3,13,23,76],"tags":[19,37,25,79,77,16,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}