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Alexander concluded that habit is not just a physical matter and cannot be changed without also changing thinking. Underlying his principles was a core belief in human capacity for constructive conscious awareness: that we could become aware of these conditioned responses to the world and learn to choose other, more enlightened reactions. He recognized that effective change in any individual must be brought about by that individual. This is why the Alexander Technique is a process of education.
The Alexander Technique is:
• a study of integrated function, energies used in concert rather than conflict;
• a technique for restoring the optimal conditions of balance, coordination and ease by integrating the entire self: body, mind and emotions.
• a way to learn to use the most appropriate energy for any given task;
• a technique for learning to redirect one's responses to stimuli from subconscious habitual patterns into conscious choice.
It is not:
• a therapy
• a cure or remedy of any kind
• alternative medicine
• a healing art
• a religion or cult
• a system of exercises
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