Welcome to another episode of “Imagine an apple”.
In this episode, Vynn and Francis talk with Michael Ashcroft about what it is like to do Alexander Technique, an awareness-based skill which he teaches.
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Timestamps:
01:00 Michael’s introduction to Alexander Technique
03:00 The origins of Alexander Technique
05:32 Internal Awareness
05:40 Michael Imagines an Apple!
06:44 How does AT make people aware of their awareness?
08:01 Coming back to the world
09:15 Being in the world
11:06 Attention in the world
12:10 Flow states
14:25 Non-doing
17:39 Habitual responding and not responding
19:29 Actively not doing vs just not doing
20:28 Mind and body are one process—Bodymind
23:20 Inhibition
24:26 Practice
26:20 Feeling “it” for the first time
27:31 Letting go of control
28:42 Meditation and Alexander Technique
34:15 Exercises in Alexander Technique
37:34 Thinking
39:54 What do you mean by thinking?
41:52 Conceptual thinking and subconscious thinking
43:10 Conscious cognition and nonconscious cognition
44:20 Parallel processing
45:44 Thoughts, feelings, IFS parts
47:14 AT mode 24/7
50:30 Technology and contracted awareness
52:15 Wrapping up
54:28 Tips about Alexander Technique
55:52 Francis’ experience of AT
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Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello
