Writings
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On August 6th, 2025, at the 13th Alexander Technique Congress in Dublin, a theologian from New York asked RF a question: Q: Where does the Benevolent Creative Impulse come from?A: The Benevolent Creative Impulse comes from Love. Q: Are Love and the Creative Impulse the same?A: No. The Creative Impulse moves from Love, as Music…
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by Sandra Bain Cushman, featuring reports from Alexander Technique Teachers with experience in the context of Guitar Craft & The Guitar Circle.Published on the AMSAT Journal (May/June 2025 issue). Click to enlarge and navigate through pages…
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Accompanying Notes IComing Into The Space… ia Here we are.We’ve moved from the outside to the inside. b The outside world is outside.It has no hold on us, no demand upon our attention, no purchase on our feelings.It is outside. c This is inside. This is our world. d To move from the outside to…
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I For an aim to be realised, it requires a vehicle.In this sense, a group is an embodiment of the aim. A group comes together in service of the aim. The aim is more important than the group, and more important than the individuals comprising the group. The aim comes first.The group comes second.The individuals…
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We assume, all of us, that we lead a mostly balanced life. Sometimes this condition is referred to as normal-abnormal. Our aim is to become normal-normal, to realise the potential that accompanied our birth of becoming a fully-human being. At that point, something else may become available. For many of us, the conditions of our…
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Dear Crafty, Two quick approaches to changing an established pattern: 1. change the outside;2. change the inside. Changing the outside we discussed: opening doors with a different hand, navigating through the office in a different direction. Changing the inside we discussed – being present. But perhaps I didn’t emphasise… In an established pattern of behaviour, if we…
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I Q: What is a question?RF: An answer seeking to be known. More accurately, the answer seeks to be known by, to and within itself, by presenting itself as a question. From one point of view, question and answer are inseparable.Essentially, the question is its answer. From another point of view, the answer is in…
