Characterization exercise

My character was found on a advertisement, it was a picture of a man covered in big snakes one on each arm and one hanging from his neck and he seemed to be trying to get them off but he was too afraid to grab them. I came to the conclusion that someone must have put the snakes on him.
Physical Characterization: Wringing - slow - indirect

Gesture: wringing of the arms, legs, and torso in a slow motions

"They're crawling all over me"

View Points

One thing I liked about view points was utilizing my soft focus. Being able to look in one place but at the same time being aware of all of the things that surround me was really interesting. I found that even though i may have not been looking at a person I could see and interpret their movements. The moments that felt particularly alive for me were when we had to work as a group to create different formations. When we all came together and allowed ourselves to feel each others energy, we worked well as a unit. For instance, we had to make two circles to lines, and two clusters as a group. The clusters were the easiest to form because it was easy to notice when people were gathering together. At times it was difficult to decipher whether or not my other classmates were bunching up or creating a circle. Sometimes a third of the group would start forming a cluster or a circle but only a few people caught on and would participate. I noticed if a group of students started to create a formation, sometimes we would hurry and it make the exercise seemed rushed and forced, rather than us coming together naturally.

Body Learning Part II

Primary control: 

 "There is a primary control of the use of the self which governs the working of all mechanisms and so renders the control of the complex human organism relatively simple"

• The relationship of the head, neck, and torso is of primary importance in deterring the level of functioning and in organizing the reactions into a coordinated whole. This is how the phrase "primary control" was coined. The head is also the locus of the two main balancing mechanisms, the optical and vestibular. This is all a result from evolution. The upright posture is the result of millions of years of development and advancement. 

Unreliable sensory appreciation:

"Everyone wants to be right but no one stops to consider if their idea of right is right"

• Since kinesthetic information is a deterring factor in our perception of use it follows that any interference with kinesthetic functioning will have a distorting effect on our awareness of ourselves. kinesthetic sense can be describe as the habitual misuse which adversely affects the reliability of kinesthetic sense and that most startling of all, the feelings of rightness in an action. Another practical example concerns out inaccurate understanding go the amount of muscle tension or energy needed to perform even the simplest of movements. 

Inhibition:

"The right thing does itself"

• The ability to stop, to delay our response until we are adequately prepared to make it, is inhibition. Alexander discovered that the importance of inhibition is human behavior paralleled a similar discover in neurology. Inhibition is an integrative element in the consolidation of the animal mechanism to a unity. It is the central function of a nervous system.

Direction:

"The conscious mind must be quickened"

• Alexander would consciously project a psychological pattern that can be described in words as allow  the neck to be free to let the head go forward and up so that the back may lengthen and widen taking care to inhibit the translation of these directions into habitual muscular action. The elements of the new pattern were to be projected sequentially and simultaneously

Ends and Means:

"When you've got it, be prepared to throw it away...throw it away and get it again."

• Alexander always emphasized the process of attaining his goal, rather than a narrow focus on the goal itself an approach which differs from tat ordinarily taken in dealing with the material world. Alexander calls the indirect method of change the "the means whereby approach" which can be defined as "awareness of conditions present, a reasoned consideration of their causes, inhibition of reoccurring responses and consciously guided performance of the indirect series of steps require to gain the "end".

Reflection:

One thing i found interesting about the reading is that i discovered that evolution had a big influence on the the primary control of a mechanism. I found that Unreliable sensory appreciation is something people deal with every day, and not just in performance. I get into debates with my friends all the time, and I realize that our conversations always turn into debates because either of us are trying to see another version of what is right. We constantly try to prove our point, and end up getting know where. 

Body Learning

Frederik Matthias Alexander was born at Wynyard on the northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia. He was the oldest of eight children. He suffered from respiratory difficulties. Later he moved to Melbourne, where he trained in drama and music. he was taught by the best teachers, visited theaters, concerts, and art galleries and decided to form is own dramatic company. He became frequently ill which resulted in him having a violent temper. Because of this, it was difficult for him to find a job when money ran out from the theater company. He dedicated his life as an actor and reciter performing concert and private engagements. His health issues had a harsh effect on his voice. He created an technique that aids the functioning of the human body which and help examine and solve s particular problem. He was known to be very hard to work with because he was not a social person. He was an individual who was never content to follow the crowd.

The most valuable Knowledge we can possess is of the use and functioning of the self. Alexander recounts his attempts to take full command of the use of something by the power to choose. He realized that choice directly affects function, and influences other choices. He describes the word use as "the process of control over something."

"...the so-called 'mental' and 'physical' are not separate entities...all training...must be based on the indivisible unity of the human organism."

The Whole person is described as a whole and is more than the sum of its parts. Alexander argues that all training of whatever kind must be based on the understanding that the human organism always functions as a whole and can only be chained fundamentally as a whole. with the alexander technique one must not focus just on one particular part of the body they must consider the body from all aspects.