- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1 edition (Jan 27 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1556432941
- ISBN-13: 978-1556432941
- Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 1.8 x 22.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 440 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"A unique and welcome contribution to the published literature on the work of F. Matthias Alexander."
-Walter Carrington, world renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique; Director, Constructive Teaching Centre in London
-Walter Carrington, world renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique; Director, Constructive Teaching Centre in London
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Outlining the basic principles of the Alexander Technique--the objective of which is to gain conscious control over one's actions--The Undivided Self challenges the concept that mind and body are interacting systems. Once we become aware of damaging patterns, we can learn to break these habits and establish a new, beneficial approach to health that will help control and prevent anxiety, pain, and distress.
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WE MOVE THEREFORE WE ARE,
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This review is from: The Undivided Self: Alexander Technique and the Control of Stress (Paperback)
This is the finest book available explaining the deeper significance of the mind/body work done by F. Mathias Alexander, creator of the Alexander Techinque. But what I liked most about reading it was its wonderfully fresh perspective on age-old human problems. For thousands of years, philoshophers have pondered the human condition from the standpoint of someone sitting under a tree. What Dimon sees is that perhaps our greatest gift is our ability to decide to get up. From his perspective, how and where we go tells us more about who we are than we might ever have thought possible. I urge anyone curious about life and eager to improve his or her own to give this book a try.
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DIMON'S BOOK IS A ROADMAP TO HEAL THE MIND AND BODY,
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This review is from: The Undivided Self: Alexander Technique and the Control of Stress (Paperback)
AS A PSYCHOTHERAPIST I AM ALWAYS SEEING THE DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF THE MIND AT WAR WITH THE BODY. I HAVE ALWAYS URGED MY PATIENTS TO TRY AND INTEGRATE THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE AS PART OF THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS TO RESOLVE THIS BATTLE. THEODORE DIMON, A NOTED ALEXANDER PRACTICIONER AND TEACHER (WHO HAS HIS OWN SCHOOL IN BOSTON) HAS WRITTEN A BOOK ANYONE INVOLVED IN HEALING THE MIND BODY DIVIDE MUST READ. IT WILL HELP PATIENT AND HEALER ALIKE. I URGE PEOPLE TO READ IT AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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learn to gain a greater awareness in living,
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This review is from: The Undivided Self: Alexander Technique and the Control of Stress (Paperback)
Ted Dimon has written the definitive mind/body book, explaining how it is possible to reduce stress and tension by learning to gain a greater awareness in living. He articulates his view by conceiving of mind and body as a functional system which can be brought under conscious control, making possible, not simply therapeutic improvement in health, but the potential for becoming fully conscious of action and behavior. The book also provides the foundation for a theory of stress that recognizes the possibility for education, and not treatment, as the basis for identifying the causes of stress.
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