Psychotherapy

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Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)

IT FINALLY DAWNED ON ME THAT WHEN I SET AN IMPORTANT GOAL THAT TAKES TIME TO ACHIEVE, I HUNKER DOWN.

I’ve done this throughout my life, and have unconsciously and consciously taken pride that I never give up on my goals. But this hasn’t been the case for the last twenty years.

For the last twenty years I’ve felt inspired at times to achieve rewarding and transformational goals but have not followed through.

Rather take a look at this, I’ve chosen to forget the goals I had supposedly committed to, and just muddle through.

What is happening?

In my past, to guarantee I reach my goals, I threatened myself by getting angry at myself to keep me going. When I reached the goal, I quickly forget that I reached the goal by being cruel to myself. I took pride in my accomplishment and felt good about achieving my goal, and quickly chose to forget how I got there.

What has happened over the last twenty years, is I’ve been unable to threaten myself harshly enough to reach a goal of value.

A huge part of the reason for this is my Alexander Technique training as an Alexander Technique teacher. By internalizing the technique, I have been unable to tolerate the physical pain of hunkering down to force myself to achieve my goal.

And if I couldn’t tolerate the physical pain of hunkering down to force myself to achieve, I quickly arrived a point where I couldn’t tolerate the emotional pain of being a cruel bully to myself.

So, whenever I set a lofty goal, my fear of physically and emotionally hunkering down with self attacks were intolerable, and I forgot what my loving intentions were and unconsciously chose to quit.

Is there a way around this? In other words, can I set a grand goal and follow through to completion?

YES! What will it take?

It will take the purity of the Alexander Technique. By this I mean that I will have to dwell in a FAITH THAT THE MEANS JUSTIFIES THE ENDS and internalize this.

What do I mean?

IT MEANS THAT WHEN I SET A GOAL AND HAVE TOTAL FAITH THAT IF I TAKE THE STEPS TO REACH IT, DO THE WORK WITH INHIBITION, THAT I WILL ONE MORNING WAKE UP AND REALIZE I HAVE REACHED MY GOAL WITHOUT PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HUNKERING DOWN, BECAUSE OF FAITH IN MYSELF AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE.