The words of a trainer of an NLP Workshop I once attended (I had not yet started the Alexander training) still sometimes go through my head. “The problem I have with the Alexander technique, is that it presupposes that there is a “right” way”.
i realised today, that the bit that bugs me is not so much the “right” in that sentence, as the ” right way”. I do trust that there is an innate “rightness” that will hold the pieces together if I let go of what I thought I knew was the “way”. It will inform my movement if I let it. It informs my choices if I let it. This “rightness” is that knowing that knows how to make my heart beat and my cells regenerate. It is beyond “right” and therefore also “wrong”.
I let go of my knowing how it feels to move freely, and discover new freedoms. I direct my pupil, not knowing what a directed pupil looks and feels like, and my pupil moves differently than I expect, twists or curves. I inhibit my “knowing” and continue to direct. Release happens.