When Right is Wrong

If you initiate an activity by Noticing and then see what happens to your Noticing as you begin to move, you free yourself from moving according to your habit. Each habitual movement has a kind of “rule book” where "rightness" is determined by the familiarity of the feeling associated with the movement. By Noticing first and then asking yourself: "Am I Noticing right now?" you avoid falling into the trap of habit because the only way you can find your way back to your old habit is by first recreating the habitual feeling. "Am I Noticing right now?" short circuits that process. It is a completely different question than: "Does this feel right?" Asking it prevents your old habit from jumping in because it allows the brand new movement to generate it's own brand new feeling.

"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."

F.M. Alexander