Balance and Vitality

It's hard to believe I've already had fourteen AT sessions. They seem to go by so quickly (time flies when you're having fun) and with life being so hectic (as it inevitably is), it is difficult to keep track.

The ability to sit, unsupported, on the métro is no longer a source of giddiness for me. The novelty is wearing off, which I see as a positive development. Until now, I was doing Alexander Technique for the sake of doing Alexander Technique. Now that the concepts are really sinking in, I look forward to applying the principles to enrich areas of my life that really matter to me. My posture on the métro isn't a high priority, after all.

I catch myself very often during the day, clenching or contorting, and I almost automatically re-align myself to be more comfortable. The first correction usually happens within three minutes after I wake up, when I brush my teeth at my ridiculously low sink. The second, while walking to the métro. The third, on the métro. The fourth, walking to the office. And so on and so forth. But it's the stressful situations that make me realize how glad I am that I started taking AT lessons.

For instance, when I have to speak to someone in my pitiful franglais, I often pause for a second to soften my deer-in-headlights look. That doesn't mean that AT has made me fluent in French but I feel good that I look slightly less ridiculous doing it. It helps to have something neutral to focus on in these instances.

If my AT progression were to be plotted on a graph, I suspect I'm at the beginning of the first plateau.