An Australian actor, named Frederick Matthias Alexander, sustaining with voice and breathing problems proposed a technique based on re-educating the body’s posture to attain perfect posture and healthy life, and so the technique is known as Alexander technique.
Bad posture introduces several problems hampering our day to day activities and leads to physical imbalance. It is a self help programme, teaches us about the bad posture and its negatives-restrictive physical tension is one. This technique guides us about the positive approach to implement on the system for the balanced Lifestyle. It achieves a proper functional coordination for the body.
Self realisation is most important, the earlier we witness our wrongdoings, more early it can be eradicated.
This technique is also based on self help. This technique has helped classical musicians on a large platform coping from problems such as RSI , tendonitis, tennis elbow, back ache, tension, incorrect breathing and in some case stage fear as well. This technique is one proper remedy to fight against these physical issues.
The head, the neck and the back share a close relationship and it will be examined below:
Balancing head
The head is the crest, or the uppermost part of the body. It ideally weighs around 10 pounds or 5 kgs, great to know..right? The proper balance of the head affects the entire body posture and if the head is not balanced properly it applies an extra stress of the same 10 pounds or 5 kgs on the neck muscles. The neck muscles are those big muscles which supports the head being on the upfront posture. Any excess pressure on these muscles might take the head back and disturbs the complete posture. This shows the close and subtle relation among the two. Any imbalance in one affects the other.
Put stress on exercises
In order to overcome these habits if pursue, there are exercises which can be tried on the primarily basis. One simple exercise is sit straight in front of the mirror and you need to check that your head is straight, your sharp observation will answer your dilemma. There are several exercises which can be performed for body posture, problems of tennis elbow, incorrect breathing, tension etc.
One technique being implied known as “freeing” of the neck on which great emphasis is put for correcting the body’s posture.
What you need to do?
The neck muscles at the back should be released slowly and the chin need to rest on the chest. Now put minimum stress on the muscle and bring the head back up , and do that till you witness that you’re looking straight in the mirror. It is one such Alexander technique.
With consent to music, it seems little difficult for users to maintain the above posture as the instruments do not allow them the same, leads to a wide imperfection hampering their posture and so govern with certain problems.
Another technique being implied is for drummers, this one is based on the Newton’s third law, explaining the relationship between body and gravity. In layman’s language, the ground is coming back to you and if same can be supplied to the ground, the same holds for drummers -by thinking that the force applied in the sitting position on the ground by the stool chair, you can compensate the same by getting a lightened feeling maintains the posture.
Therefore, several Alexander techniques maintaining a relationship among different body parts providing a balanced posture.
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