My left arm

Lately...... no, historically...  I've had a problem with my left arm...

It keeps lifting to punch me in the eye as I do my circles... 

My Alexander teacher discovered this quite on her own and showed me how I fail to ALLOW my arm (humerus) to hang and be supported in it's scoopy resting place on the radius ulna....

Sometimes you need a coach to help develop an awareness of how you use ( or misuse) your body...

Center is a state of being that is not confined to a certain posture or a constantly held image. We can relate to center from any number of positions or actions. 
We can be centered while sitting, carrying, sweeping, or driving.. Being centered is an attitude we carry, it is a quality of being present and comfortably balanced within our body and our environment,

It embodies intent, focus, patience, direction and an intuition for timing, 

It's a dance

                                                                  

It's fairly easy to know What you're working for..

eventually you learn Why..

                                   
                                                                  A Training Pyramid

Re-membering....that's what we're supposed to be doing, per nature, but now she's just making stuff up.

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the way back

I think of faith sometimes in the same way that we collect a horse..

There is a proper frame of movement for an animal w/ a rider that can only occur when the rider is balanced and riding to ALLOW the horse to move forward.. The gait becomes light and graceful, the head carriage has the nose pointed at the ground and the eye directly above it, in a line nearly perpendicular to the earth..The horse reaches forward w/ his hind legs, to provide deep impulsion...

It is possible to make a horse appear to have his head in the self carriage position, but not actually be there..It's done by hauling the horse's nose in with the hands, or by tieing his head down or using other gadgets, like draw reins, to facilitate a "look"....It makes no provision for harmonizing w/ the animals center of gravity or the riders effect on it...

It ends up in a disfigurement we call a swan neck and of course all the lightness and impulsion of real self carriage is lacking, for something that "mimics" balance..

This false carriage has the effect of stringing the horse out, making im appear to "run", like a child running down a hill, falling forward to keep up with his feet, as opposed to trotting forward, lightly ....

Faith and belief are like that.. those who move w/ their true self carriage are obvious to one who understands the objective..

Most just try to cram themselves into the frame work of a tie-down dogma, any dogma, political, spiritual, whatever...but it's obvious to anyone who knows a bit about grace, when someone moves w/ true balance...

A working belief, of whatever color or breed or denomination, will carry you forward in lightness and harmony over any obstacle, through any thicket or swamp, and it will always know the shortest way home..