Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869–1955) was an Australian actor who developed the educational process that is today called the Alexander Technique: a form of education that is applied to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking.
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You translate everything—whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
—F. Matthias Alexander
Topics: Spirit, Spiritual
When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.
—F. Matthias Alexander
Topics: Act, Try
Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.
—F. Matthias Alexander
Topics: Yin, Try
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
—F. Matthias Alexander
Topics: Habit, Future, Decide, People
Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home”.
—F. Matthias Alexander
Topics: Doing
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