Alexander Technique

When no one can help you, use self-observation. Self observation is watching yourself whereas self absorption if self preoccupation. If concerned about yourself you're worried about yourself. Self observation is to watch everything in you and around you as if it were happening to someone else. We suffer because we identify with them. What you judge you can not understand. The statement "I am not my depression, i am not my joy ect." I believe this statement to be very powerful. I personally have dealt with depression and that was basically what I had to tell myself everyday to help myself through it.

When experience fear, stress, and anxiety we shorten in stature, we narrow in size, we pull our head down, compress ourselves as a survival mechanism. The alexander techniques enables us to choose a different response and also allows us to be more appropriate in our response to our circumstances. Nature would prefer us to be in balance, to share our body weight evenly between both feet. Three points of contact in the foot are the base of the big toe, the base of the little toe and the heel. The three hinges in our legs are the ankles, the knees, and the hips. The hips are a third of the way from our pubic bone, close to the bathing suit line. Allow the pelvis to be heavy like an anchor. The top of the spine is between the ears behind the eyes.

Reflection:

In my opinion the connection between your mind and body is how well you are engaged with both of them at one particular time, or a series of moments. I would describe the connection between my mind and body, based on how i connect and relate with myself, will determine how I connect and relate to the world around me.