🤲 Active Receiving

🤲 Today I’m asking myself, am I open to receiving? Do I have grasping hands, or do I have receptive hands? Do I have fixing hands, or do I have listening hands?

🤲 As an Alexander Technique teacher, these questions are important. When I use my hands to make contact with my student, I am meeting the person’s wholeness with my wholeness.

🤲 Try this: find a place to sit quietly with yourself. Allow your hands to rest palm-up on your thighs. Place a small, pleasing object in one hand. How do you experience that object through your touch? How does this experience impact your whole self? Your breath? Your voice?

🤲 Now try this: place your open palm on your chest. “Listen” with your hand, with no agenda, no need to fix or change anything. How do you experience yourself through your touch? Sing something as you continue to “listen” through your touch. What do you notice?

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