A la charni\u00e8re entre le 19\u00e8me et le 20\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, le com\u00e9dien Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) a \u00e9t\u00e9 amen\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00e9tudier de tr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s cette question un peu bizarre, tout d\u2019abord \u00e0 des fins personnelles, et par la suite, il a d\u00e9couvert que l\u2019usage que l\u2019individu moyen fait de lui-m\u00eame dans ses diverses activit\u00e9s limite toujours plus ou moins la qualit\u00e9 de ses performances. Il a \u00e9galement mis en \u00e9vidence le fait qu\u2019un usage de nos m\u00e9canismes non adapt\u00e9 aux principes de leur fonctionnement naturel, tout en constituant un obstacle plus ou moins important vis-\u00e0-vis de l\u2019ex\u00e9cution correcte de l\u2019activit\u00e9 concern\u00e9e et de l\u2019obtention de l\u2019objectif d\u00e9sir\u00e9, interf\u00e8re avec ce fonctionnement naturel, exerce une influence n\u00e9faste et permanente sur les organes constituant ces m\u00e9canismes, et finit par engendrer, sur le long terme, toutes sortes de d\u00e9formations et maladies chroniques, et en fin de compte, des vies qui auraient pu \u00eatre plus r\u00e9ussies.<\/p>\n
L\u2019usage de soi est une donn\u00e9e sous-jacente \u00e0 l\u2019existence. Presque insaisissable bien qu\u2019omnipr\u00e9sent, il se d\u00e9veloppe en fonction de notre environnement socioculturel, de notre v\u00e9cu, de notre \u00e9ducation, de notre profession, de certaines pr\u00e9dispositions\u2026 Il se situe \u00e0 un niveau global : jamais purement mental, jamais purement physique. On ne peut le modifier directement : cela reviendrait \u00e0 cultiver les proc\u00e9dures m\u00eames que l\u2019on souhaite changer !! En fait, il ne peut y avoir de v\u00e9ritable changement de l\u2019usage de soi sans un changement correspondant de la personne, non seulement dans ses attitudes mentales et physiques les plus fondamentales, mais aussi dans la clart\u00e9 de la perception qu\u2019elle a d\u2019elle-m\u00eame. En travaillant sur nos habitudes corporelles, la Technique FM Alexander permet de prendre conscience de sch\u00e9mas d\u2019utilisation de plus en plus nombreux, et par cons\u00e9quent, de d\u00e9velopper notre capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 contr\u00f4ler nos r\u00e9actions psycho-physiques aux diverses circonstances de la vie, que les stimuli proviennent de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur ou de l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur de l\u2019individu.<\/p>\n
Il est commun\u00e9ment admis que, sur le long terme, les d\u00e9cisions et les choix d\u2019apr\u00e8s lesquels nous nous comportons envers nous-m\u00eame d\u00e9terminent pour une large part la qualit\u00e9 de notre vie. Le probl\u00e8me, c\u2019est que l\u2019usage de soi se d\u00e9veloppe par nature de mani\u00e8re compl\u00e8tement subconsciente, instinctive et irraisonn\u00e9e, exactement comme chez le chat ou le chien, et qu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019heure actuelle, une conduite fond\u00e9e sur des habitudes qui se sont mises en place de mani\u00e8re instinctive et irraisonn\u00e9e n\u2019est plus susceptible d\u2019offrir des r\u00e9ponses adapt\u00e9es \u00e0 un environnement civilis\u00e9 de plus en plus complexe, et qui \u00e9volue de plus en plus rapidement au fil des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations. Alexander disait lui-m\u00eame : \u201cThe conscious mind must be quickened.\u201d
\n\u00a0\u00bb name=\u00a0\u00bbRenaud Person , \u00e9l\u00e8ve de la Technique Alexander \u00a0\u00bb subtitle=\u00a0\u00bbLa Technique Alexander \u2013 Une mini-introduction (2005) \u00ab\u00a0][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbpadding-3-percent\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb background_color=\u00a0\u00bb#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bb10px\u00a0\u00bb top_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ bottom_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb][nectar_single_testimonial testimonial_style=\u00a0\u00bbbold\u00a0\u00bb image=\u00a0\u00bb35444″ color=\u00a0\u00bbDefault\u00a0\u00bb quote=\u00a0\u00bbComplete understanding of the system can only come with the practice of it. All I need say in this place is that I am sure, as a matter of personal experience and observation, that is gives us all the things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and consequent improvement in physical and mental health; increased consciousness of the physical means employed to gain the ends proposed by the will and, along with this, a general heightening of consciousness on all levels; a technique of inhibition, working on the physical level to prevent the body from slipping back, under the influence of greedy \u2018end-gaining,\u2019 into its old habits of malco-ordination, and working (by a kind of organic analogy) to inhibit undesirable impulses and irrelevance on the emotional and intellectual levels respectively. We cannot ask more from any system of physical education; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask any less.\u00a0\u00bb name=\u00a0\u00bbAldous Huxley English writer (1894 \u2013 1963)\u00a0\u00bb subtitle=\u00a0\u00bbEnds and Means \u2013 1937″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column enable_animation=\u00a0\u00bbtrue\u00a0\u00bb animation=\u00a0\u00bbfade-in\u00a0\u00bb column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbpadding-3-percent\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb background_color=\u00a0\u00bb#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bb10px\u00a0\u00bb top_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ bottom_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb][nectar_single_testimonial testimonial_style=\u00a0\u00bbbold\u00a0\u00bb image=\u00a0\u00bb35451″ color=\u00a0\u00bbDefault\u00a0\u00bb quote=\u00a0\u00bbAlexander established not only the beginnings of a far reaching science of the apparently involuntary movements we call reflexes, but a technique of correction and self-control which forms a substantial addition to our very slender resources in personal education.\u00a0\u00bb name=\u00a0\u00bbGeorge Bernard Shaw\u00a0\u00bb subtitle=\u00a0\u00bbIrish playwriter (1856 \u2013 1950)\u00a0\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb 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Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.\u00a0\u00bb name=\u00a0\u00bbJohn Cleese\u00a0\u00bb subtitle=\u00a0\u00bbEnglish actor and writer (1939)\u00a0\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbpadding-3-percent\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb background_color=\u00a0\u00bb#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bb10px\u00a0\u00bb top_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ bottom_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb][nectar_single_testimonial testimonial_style=\u00a0\u00bbbold\u00a0\u00bb image=\u00a0\u00bb35486″ color=\u00a0\u00bbDefault\u00a0\u00bb quote=\u00a0\u00bbMr Alexander has done a service to the subject by insistently treating each act as involving the whole integrated individual, the whole psychophysical man. To take a step is an affair not of this or that limb solely but of the total neuromuscular activity of the moment \u2013 not least of the head and neck.\u00a0\u00bb name=\u00a0\u00bbSir Charles Serrington (1857 \u2013 1952)\u00a0\u00bb subtitle=\u00a0\u00bb1932 Nobel Prize winner for medicine\u00a0\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbpadding-3-percent\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb background_color=\u00a0\u00bb#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bb10px\u00a0\u00bb top_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ bottom_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb][nectar_single_testimonial testimonial_style=\u00a0\u00bbbold\u00a0\u00bb image=\u00a0\u00bb35493″ color=\u00a0\u00bbDefault\u00a0\u00bb quote=\u00a0\u00bbIn the present state of the world it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without first having secured control of ourselves is a perilous affair. If there can be developed a technique which will enable individuals really to secure the right use of themselves, then the factor on which depends the final use of all other forms of energy will be brought under control Mr Alexander has evolved this technique.\u00a0\u00bb name=\u00a0\u00bbProfessor John Dewey (1859 \u2013 1952)\u00a0\u00bb subtitle=\u00a0\u00bbAmerican philosopher\u00a0\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbpadding-3-percent\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb background_color=\u00a0\u00bb#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bb10px\u00a0\u00bb top_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ bottom_margin=\u00a0\u00bb20″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb][nectar_single_testimonial testimonial_style=\u00a0\u00bbbold\u00a0\u00bb image=\u00a0\u00bb35502″ color=\u00a0\u00bbDefault\u00a0\u00bb quote=\u00a0\u00bbHow, then, is poise to be acquired if lost or defective? The shortest road towards neuromuscular education of the body is doubtless at the hands of skilled people who practise an appropriate technique. The technique designed by Alexander is appropriate because it is based on the fundamental biological fact that the relation of the head to the neck is the primary relationship to be established in all proper positioning and movement of the body. But, if we are not so fortunate as to have an expert personal assistance, can the individual do anything? Alexander himself holds little hope for the unassisted person beyond the patient process of self-correction relative to movement before a mirror which he followed out himself in improving the use of his own body and in discovering the importance principles at which he arrived.\u00a0\u00bb name=\u00a0\u00bbRaymond Dart (1893 \u2013 1988)\u00a0\u00bb subtitle=\u00a0\u00bbAnatomist and anthropologist\u00a0\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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