Blogs about: Ends And Means
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Understanding Unfamiliarity By Filling In the Blanks
On the Alexander Google list server group, it turns out that I’ve gotten a reputation for being able to explain things that others find difficult. So I thought that I would explain how I can rea… more →
Alexander Technique
Do ends really justify means?
americana83 wrote 3 months ago: This question has been debated for ages. Similar questions have also been asked: Do we join with any … more →
On that Old 'Banality of Evil' Thing.
thefeistysweetheart wrote 4 months ago: Earlier today I was writing about The System, and the behaviors which have led us into all our curre … more →
On Torture and Ourselves
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thefeistysweetheart wrote 4 months ago: Glenn Greenwald is a very good writer. He is responsible, thorough, and unswerving. I read him semi- … more →
On Simone Weil
thefeistysweetheart wrote 5 months ago: One of the issues I intend to address in depth here are the ways women’s work is trivialized a … more →
Understanding Unfamiliarity By Filling In the Blanks
Franis Engel wrote 9 months ago: On the Alexander Google list server group, it turns out that I’ve gotten a reputation for bein … more →
Why Did I Do That?
Franis Engel wrote 1 year ago: Do people make deliberate choices for negative reasons? I used to imagine they do. I used to think I … more →
Hands-On, A.T. Style Described
Franis Engel wrote 1 year ago: “AT talk seems to not mention what happens when teachers use their hands on people but talks a … more →
Is Morality An Ends Or A Means?
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Krista Dominguez wrote 1 year ago: Morality – “1. The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct 2. A sys … more →
Approaching Pervasive Habits
Franis Engel wrote 1 year ago: This article was written in response to a question posed on the Alexander Technique Email Discussion … more →
Quote of the Week (Kant's Golden Rule)
Mark wrote 2 years ago: Handle so, daß du die Menschheit, sowohl in deiner Person als in der Person eines jeden andern jeder … more →
Habits and How to Know What You Desire In Spite of Habit
Franis Engel wrote 2 years ago: Alexander Technique addresses the ways people come to notice the need for problem solving. It also h … more →
Describing Relationships for Alexander Technique
Franis Engel wrote 2 years ago: Describing relationship is an honorable goal, because it is in relationship that AT shines. The stru … more →
How is Primary Control Taught?
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Franis Engel wrote 2 years ago: How does a person who is trained to teach Alexander Technique actually show people how to learn Alex … more →
Explaining How Habits Can Be Undone
Franis Engel wrote 2 years ago: Lately, I’ve had great success explaining that the Technique is about the behavior chains of b … more →
Asking Really Great Questions
Franis Engel wrote 2 years ago: As a topic in general, good questioning has many examples in every field. It pays to study the proce … more →
Ideas Without Ego, Questioning Motives
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Franis Engel wrote 2 years ago: Quite a few people imagine that removing a person’s habitual ways of moving amount to the expe … more →
Articulating & Describing Qualities
Franis Engel wrote 2 years ago: I’ve always had the ability to observe. At 16, I was invited into a inventor’s problem s … more →
What Feels Wrong Is Probably Pointing at Freedom
Franis Engel wrote 3 years ago: >> If every one did AT, there would have been no world war – true or false?>True, But … more →
End-gaining
Franis Engel wrote 3 years ago: Today I’m thinking about the “evoke experience” strategy that many people use. Thi … more →
