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.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Mindfullness
Mindfullness
1) He says mindfulness is a ways with connecting with your life. it involves a lot of cultivating attention. He describes it has paying attention, on purpose in the present moment, non judgmentally as if your life depended it.
2) Our life depends of mindfulness because attention is the faculty that allows us to navigate our lives to actually know that me know whats happening or know that we don't know whats happening.
3) It doesn't matter what you pay attention to, it is the attending itself that is important. Starting to pay attention to whether or not your paying attention to something causes the mind to be all over the place.
4) Mindfullness is not a technique it is more of a way of being
Andy Puddicombe
1) we should take 10 minutes to do nothing. Those 10 minutes should consists of clearing our minds from the distractions of the world.
2) our minds are lost in thought at least 47% of the time
3) Mindfullness is not about controlling our thoughts and feelings, its about being with our thoughts and feelings as well as with other peoples.
4) The juggling of the three red balls are similar to the activity we did in class balancing sticks because it while we walked around the classroom we had to be mindful of the other students walking around balacing their sticks. To balance the stick while walking around with 20 other students doing the same thing (or juggling the balls while talking to a crowd of people) we must we have a relaxed and focused mind.
1) He says mindfulness is a ways with connecting with your life. it involves a lot of cultivating attention. He describes it has paying attention, on purpose in the present moment, non judgmentally as if your life depended it.
2) Our life depends of mindfulness because attention is the faculty that allows us to navigate our lives to actually know that me know whats happening or know that we don't know whats happening.
3) It doesn't matter what you pay attention to, it is the attending itself that is important. Starting to pay attention to whether or not your paying attention to something causes the mind to be all over the place.
4) Mindfullness is not a technique it is more of a way of being
Andy Puddicombe
1) we should take 10 minutes to do nothing. Those 10 minutes should consists of clearing our minds from the distractions of the world.
2) our minds are lost in thought at least 47% of the time
3) Mindfullness is not about controlling our thoughts and feelings, its about being with our thoughts and feelings as well as with other peoples.
4) The juggling of the three red balls are similar to the activity we did in class balancing sticks because it while we walked around the classroom we had to be mindful of the other students walking around balacing their sticks. To balance the stick while walking around with 20 other students doing the same thing (or juggling the balls while talking to a crowd of people) we must we have a relaxed and focused mind.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Second Post
1. Patsy Rodenburg defines Presence as the moments when a persons energy fully connects them to the world and them fully receiving energy back from that connection.
2. One way that Presence is lost is when your scene partner is one who likes to be in control and rejects your presence. Another way Presence is lost is when a person is thinking more about the own personal life rather than what is happening in the moment. I personally feel a loss of Presence when someone stumbles over a line on stage and we must "go with the flow"
3. The first Circle is the circle of self and withdrawal. A time where I usually find myself in third circle is when im having a lot of personal issues im dealing with and I tend to stray away from social activity. Another time where i find myself in first circle is when im around people I do not Know.
4. Third circle is the circle of bluff and force. A time when i have experienced myself in third circle was when I was the host of "Open Mic Night". I had to be overly vivacious and loquacious to keep the audience intrigued at all times; especially during act changes.
5. Second circle is the circle of the Energy of connecting. One personal experience when I have been in second circle was when I played basketball and the team would come together as one and play with chemistry. It was like a chain reaction, one person would send positive energy to another player and it would continue the cycle.
2. One way that Presence is lost is when your scene partner is one who likes to be in control and rejects your presence. Another way Presence is lost is when a person is thinking more about the own personal life rather than what is happening in the moment. I personally feel a loss of Presence when someone stumbles over a line on stage and we must "go with the flow"
3. The first Circle is the circle of self and withdrawal. A time where I usually find myself in third circle is when im having a lot of personal issues im dealing with and I tend to stray away from social activity. Another time where i find myself in first circle is when im around people I do not Know.
4. Third circle is the circle of bluff and force. A time when i have experienced myself in third circle was when I was the host of "Open Mic Night". I had to be overly vivacious and loquacious to keep the audience intrigued at all times; especially during act changes.
5. Second circle is the circle of the Energy of connecting. One personal experience when I have been in second circle was when I played basketball and the team would come together as one and play with chemistry. It was like a chain reaction, one person would send positive energy to another player and it would continue the cycle.
first post
1. i am taking this class because I want to learn more ways to use my body on stage without it seeming utterly awkward
2. My major is Theater with a performance concentration
3. i am an introverted extrovert
4. i am interested in painting, drawing, and astronomy
5. to me presence means a persons ability to unintentionally bring attention to themselves
6. i feel alright about my body
7. i am confident in my ability to move my hands
8. i am self conscious of moving rapidly around stage and or elegantly around stage...i am very clumsy
9. i hope to gain more confidence in my body
10. in five years i will be living in los angeles attending grad school , in ten years i will be pursuing my career as an actor
2. My major is Theater with a performance concentration
3. i am an introverted extrovert
4. i am interested in painting, drawing, and astronomy
5. to me presence means a persons ability to unintentionally bring attention to themselves
6. i feel alright about my body
7. i am confident in my ability to move my hands
8. i am self conscious of moving rapidly around stage and or elegantly around stage...i am very clumsy
9. i hope to gain more confidence in my body
10. in five years i will be living in los angeles attending grad school , in ten years i will be pursuing my career as an actor
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