This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Meditation (Sitting or Meditating), is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical. It will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to create an effortless, comfortable, and aligned meditating posture.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
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Primary Control is the basis of an organized, balanced, and aligned meditation sitting posture in the Alexander Technique. When a person is meditating with an organized posturally balanced meditation technique, then the head is leading the meditating person’s spine into lengthening, as the legs are released in lotus position, with a vertically balanced, and aligned spine.
This means that all of the nerves that radiate from the spinal cord have no pressure on them. So, the nerves can send the signals from the brain for movement and/or muscular support, as you sit in balanced meditation, without being compromised by the vertebrae and muscles pinching the nerves.
The brain and spinal cord always organize the movement and posture that the body produces, but when the Primary Control is interfered with by muscular tension and compression and poor posture, then that organization is poor organization. THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE IS ALL ABOUT THE QUALITY OF A MEDITATING PERSON’S POSTURE AND TECHNIQUE.
The Alexander Technique recognizes that a huge amount of wear and tear and physical pain meditating is caused by how you organize your sitting posture with your beliefs about good posture and alignment.
The assumption in the Alexander Technique is that we are born with an innate ability to move with beautiful Primary Control, and that babies crawl with the head leading a lengthening spine naturally, given that the baby is healthy in a healthy environment.
If you were to observe a 1,000 people meditating, you’d be hard put to see one person sitting with beautiful Primary Control (given that none of them had done any Alexander Technique work). What does a person meditating without a compromised Primary Control look like?
The person meditating sits fully upright with a completely mobile body (not trying to sit straight). The meditating person’s neck is free and the sitter is aware that the head is leading a lengthening spine upward, which means that the person meditating is able to focus inward without collapsing downward.
This means that the person meditating is completely engaged in meditating without hunkering down. This fully upward mobile posture balancing on the sit bones, gives the shoulders and arms of the person meditating a balanced torso to float on, so that the shoulders don’t act as a drag on the torso and impede effortless breathing.
When the meditating person’s body is organized by the Primary Control, then the sitter is free to place all of his or her awareness on a meditating technique that isn’t being compromised by a compromised Primary Control. In other words, if the meditating person’s body is collapsed or over-tense with poor head/neck/spine organization, then the pure specific effortless sitting technique of the person meditating can never be what it would be, potentially interfering with enlightenment.
WHEN THE FOUNDATION OF COORDINATED HUMAN MOVEMENT IS COMPROMISED, THEN THE SECONDARY TECHNIQUE OF A SPECIALIZED ACTIVITY, LIKE MEDITATING, WILL NEVER BE AS EFFORTLESS OR AS NATURAL AS IT COULD BE.
