Feelings. Whoah, Whoah, Whoah, Feeeeelings!

I have been wanting to write about kinesthetic perception since I started this journal but it is such a big subject and so central to understanding how to apply Alexander's discoveries that I didn't know where to begin. This morning I realized that wherever I start will be the beginning and the rest will take care of itself. Here are some things that Alexander said about feeling.

You are not making decisions: you are doing kinesthetically what you feel to be right.

Any fool can do the thing he wants to feel—there is no trouble about that. The difficulty is to make him feel he does not want to feel.

If your neck feels stiff, that is not to say that your neck “is” stiff.

They won’t try and get out of the chair unless they feel they have something that will get them out of the chair: that something is their habit.

You can’t know a thing by an instrument that is wrong.

He gets what he feels is the right position, but that only means that he’s getting the position which fits in with his defective coordination.

You want to feel out whether you are right or not. I am giving you a conception to eradicate that. I don’t want you to care a damn if you’re right or not. Directly you don’t care if you’re right or not, the impeding obstacle is gone.

You all want to know if you’re right. When you get further along you will be right, but you won’t know it and won’t want to know it.

The right thing to do would be the last thing we should do, left to ourselves, because it would be the last thing we should think it would be the right thing to do.

He gets what he feels is the right position, but when he has imperfect coordination he is only getting a position which fits his defective coordination.

You won’t energize to put your head forward and up, unless you feel the condition which you associate with the idea of forward and up, which is, unfortunately, stiffening and shortening, the very opposite of forward and up.

Sensory appreciation conditions conception—you can’t know a thing by an instrument that is wrong.

It doesn’t alter a fact because you can’t feel it.

When the time comes that you can trust your feeling, you won’t want to use it.Bounce these guys around your brain for a while and see what you make of them. Later I'll give you my interpretation of some of them.