Whatever AT teachers may know, putting knowledge into practice is never easy. It requires courage as well as constant vigilance.

My blog is going to be largely retrospective. I have loads of things I’ve written over the years that I want to include. It’s not pure Alexander, though a lot of will be.

I will add new stuff, too. In the meantime, I”ll look out for Daniel Goleman.

Nicholas

When I look back at that post, I think it mainly reflects my own sentiments at the time and that I projected them towards what I was reading on the list.

When I just discovered AT, it litterally was the answer to life, the universe and everything for me, because so many things clicked into place, both mentally and physically. But over time, my own enthusiasm started to turn into dogmatic thinking.

When you have nothing to lose, it’s easy to learn new things, because you’re open to any possibility that will improve your current situation. But as soon as you’re on to something good, you want to keep it, with the risk of holding on to it so tightly that you cannot see outside your fixed frame, with the risk of losing something that you never had in the first place and missing other possibilities.

I’m convinced that AT teachers know this, and that it’s something I had to learn at that time. But the risk always remains.

BTW, have you ever read Daniel Goleman’s ‘Vital lies, simple truths’? He give a very interesting account of how the interaction of consciousness and fear results in self-deception as a defence system in individuals, families and even societies. It’s basically about how come we don’t know that we don’t know.

Best of luck with your blog, I hope you update it regularly!

Maaike