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the alexander technique
Alexander had also made the discovery that breathing and vocalization are part and parcel of how the body functions as a whole. Habitual breathing and vocal patterns are parts of habitual patterns of general coordination. In fact, many problems we see as involving just one particular part of the body, e.g. lower back pain and RSI are often symptoms of larger habitual patterns of malcoordination. Just
as people had found Alexander's "vocal" technique helped them
with their breathing problems, so a number of his students found his method
of respiratory re-education helped them with other physical difficulties.
Basically, Alexander had evolved a method for learning how to consciously
change maladaptive habits of co-ordination. (Co-ordination includes movement,
posture, breathing, and tension patterns.) He had come to the understanding
that the mind and body function as an integrated entity, a rather unusual
realization for that time. Alexander found that habits, whether "physical"
habits or "mental" habits, are all psychophysical in nature.
He observed that how we think about our activities determines how we co-ordinate
ourselves to do those activities, and, equally, how long-held habits of
excessive tension and inefficient coordination affect how we feel and
think. In a relatively short period of time, Alexander evolved his technique
from a method of vocal training into a method of breathing re-education
and then into a comprehensive technique of psychophysical re-education.
His technique deals with the psychophysical co-ordination of the whole
person, or what he termed more concisely as "the use of the self."
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Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) was an Australian actor and teacher. He
originally developed the Alexander Technique as a method of vocal training
for singers and actors in the 1890s. While Alexander was developing his
method of voice training, he realized that the basis for all successful
vocal education was an efficiently and naturally functioning respiratory
mechanism. So, in teaching voice, Alexander focused primarily on helping
the breathing mechanism to function more effectively. Because of his focus
on "reeducating" the breathing mechanism, some of Alexander's
students, who had come to him for vocal training, found that their respiratory
difficulties also improved. These improvements were recognized by medical
doctors who began referring their patients with respiratory ailments to
Alexander for help. In this way, F.M. Alexander's technique of vocal training
developed into a technique he termed "respiratory re-education."
