{"id":2157,"date":"2018-01-13T06:52:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T06:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirstenharris.co.uk\/thedailyease\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2018-01-13T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:53:28","slug":"why-the-alexander-technique-can-be-likened-to-farting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"Why the Alexander Technique can be Likened to Farting!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OMG!’ Oil on Canvas, by Kirsten Harris<\/em><\/p>\n

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Apologies to the easily offended, but I am likening the Alexander Technique to farting in this blog. Call it British humour or bad humour, but a girls gotta amuse herself somehow! Anyway,\u00a0I am not talking about bad smells or feeling embarrassed, I am talking about something that is entirely natural.\u00a0Farting is natural. No one choses to fart or makes themselves fart, it just happens. Or as we say in Britain ‘Even the Queen farts!’<\/p>\n

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So, this blog is about natural freedom, the bodies natural abilities. The poise that Alexander Technique seeks is a natural state. A state of suspended animation a bit like floating in water.\u00a0It is not something you do or make happen.<\/p>\n

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You can not hold onto water to float in it.\u00a0You can’t grab at the water or put yourself into a posture to find buoyancy. You will drown if you do this. You have to let go.\u00a0You have to trust.\u00a0Let yourself breathe out.\u00a0Allow. Let go and go for it. Float. Go with the flow. Know that the next breath will find you.<\/p>\n

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Poise is letting our predominantly watery bodies float in space, so that we are free to move and live with ease and balance.\u00a0Poise is a natural state of being. Poise is as illusive as it is addictive! We happen upon it, and we lose it again. Poise is a life times adventure in being.<\/p>\n

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Too often for my liking the word posture is associated with the Alexander Technique. Truthfully I think it is a misleading and inaccurate word. Posture suggests a position, something you do and hold, somewhat forced. Posture is like grabbing at the water. That is never going to work. As soon as you try to hold onto water it’s essence will slip through your fingers. You are just left with wet hands, a surface experience of what is.<\/p>\n

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Why would Alexander Technique teachers be so passionate about this job with a strange name if we were teaching posture? \u00a0Boring!<\/p>\n

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We are seekers of something\u00a0mysterious, eternal and natural – a freedom that is, in it’s essence, nothing. Like water, you can’t hold onto that freedom. This is why it is hard to explain the wonders of the Alexander Technique. It is why people say you have to experience it. Alexander Technique takes us closer to the mysteries of being. It is just one way to seek truth, a rather wonderful way.<\/p>\n

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You can’t really explain floating in water. You have to be in the water, be of the water. You have to find the state of mind – let go of fear of drowning, that allows you to let go and trust the water will support you. Trust that floating and moving in water or up into space on dry land is a natural state of being. Perhaps it really is letting go of a fear of death that allows us to live freely.<\/p>\n

(Ah, the inadequacy of words! So much to say so hard to say it!)<\/p>\n

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So on that note, I will raise the tone and share a verse my late, much loved Uncle Ken of Worsall Farm in Wiltshire, used to say to us as children to make us laugh! This is best read in the broadest of broad Wiltshire accents –<\/p>\n

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‘Where ever you be<\/em><\/p>\n

Let your farts go free<\/em><\/p>\n

For the want of a fart<\/em><\/p>\n

Was the death of me!’<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

OMG … Kirsten Harris, I can’t believe you wrote about farting!<\/p>\n

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