Blog posts
Burning down the house
The smoke alarm went off. I got up, thinking it must be telling me that the battery was coming to the end of its life, but that I had better check anyway.
Alexander Technique – as a form of Health Education
NICE have just produced new guidelines for Parkinson’s in adults and have continued to include a specific mention of Alexander Technique for people experiencing problems with motor control and balance.
Donald Trump and Fairytales
Donald Trump may not be out of his mind but he may be an idiot and in saying both things, I am actually saying the same thing: that he lacks a sense of community or fellowship, he lacks a connection with his Self.
On the uses of the Alexander Technique or how to think and adapt
I think I must have been twenty six when I went for my first Alexander Technique lesson. The primary reason for going then, as it is for many people, was to find help with a musculo-skeletal problem.
Getting Into Action
I started this blog back during the summer after a conference in Padua where I volunteered to organise the next European Personal Construct Psychology conference here in Edinburgh in 2018. I am coming back to it now, after a gap in blogging that has been too long.
Anxiety and the Mechanics of Action
Looking online, what is most elaborated in articles about anxiety, are how it feels in terms of fear, nervousness, panic etc., the physiological underpinnings of this and the sorts of thoughts that accompany it.
Working with resistance to change 1: The ABC Model
Saint Augustine's famous prayer to God to help him 'become chaste, but not yet' captures some of the ambiguity and problems around change. We can desire it, long for it, yet struggle to achieve it.
Magic Time Part 2 – Emerging from Stillness
The other day, I watched a cat disturbed into a startle, run away, jerkily moving, panicked by the threat of having to move from their toilet, by someone who obviously preferred their garden to be left pristine in its manicured state.
Magic Time Part 1
My mother loved food and cooking, it was one of her passions and she spent much of her retirement refining her skills, which gave her great pleasure.
