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By Enid Hinton


The reason as to why so many people are stressed out these days is simply because the pacing of life is becoming so much faster and people tend to neglect relaxing. It is for this reason that many people would seek arts such as light stretching, meditation, or even yoga to help themselves relax. Now one of the best methods that can be used in order to take away stress would be the alexander technique.

The one who came up with this technique was actually an actor from Australia who goes by the name of Frederick Alexander. He actually had a condition that was known as chronic laryngitis which could not actually be cured by any of the doctors he went to during his time. Of course with a little bit of luck, he was able to create a method to help him release tension in his neck which was actually the cause of everything.

Now the whole concept behind this method is that habitual movements are what causes tightening. Whenever the body moves a certain way, certain muscles tighten. Of course when the muscles would tighten, then one would feel tension.

Now if one would enroll in one of these classes, he will first be assessed by the teacher. The teacher has to first see the condition of his students in order to let them do some exercises. Of course the teachers would be advising their students to come in comfortable clothes so that they can be able to relax during their exercises.

One thing to take note of when starting out is that this is definitely not a painful nor is it a strenuous type of exercise. It is in fact, the opposite of a strenuous workout as this method aims to take away the tension from all parts of the body instead of adding tension which is what strenuous workouts would do in order for one to gain muscle. This is a rather slow set of exercises wherein one does not need to push himself so much.

Now some of the things that one will be doing would be walking, running, sitting down, standing up, or any other body movements that he does normally. While he does this, the teachers will be checking his body to see if there are some body parts tightening anywhere. If there are, then the teachers will be advising the students as to what they can do and what changes they are supposed to make with their body movements.

Now the main benefit that one would get from these kinds of exercises would of course be lesser body aches. Now for those who often have body aches in the back, in the head, in the legs, or anywhere else, this method will definitely be great for him. At the same time the exercises of this method would also be able to help lessen stress which means that this method can actually help both physically and mentally.

So as one can see, these kinds of exercises are actually very helpful to those people who are very stressed out. Over the years, this Australian man was able to spread his knowledge and was able to let many schools open in the United States. Of course the Big Apple NYC has actually become home to a lot of schools of this practice.




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