Rushing Past Your Achievements...
I was teaching earlier in the week and this lesson was looking at walking. Just your average everyday walking. As can happen often in Alexander Technique lessons as we were working and talking about walking the student suddenly realised that as she walked the movement would be a lot easier if she moved with everything together in the same direction. Whilst this may seem obvious now from the perspective of this discussion it wasn't for her at the time.
The wonderful outcome was that she was able to walk in a far easier and less effortful way sustainably within the lesson on her own. Once she had realised this she was understandably pleased and excited.
It was the next bit that took me a bit by surprised. From my point of view she had just had a major breakthrough that deserved celebrating and enjoying. A reward for the work she had put in previously. What did she want to do? Within about 10 seconds she wanted to work on about three other activities and solve this, that and another difficulty. It took a good 5-10 minutes to get her to pull back from trying to solve every problem under the sun there and then and to just be happy with what she had achieved and to just enjoy it. Saying that she did and came back at her next lesson more energetic and ready to improve.
It is easy to want to solve everything at once when you have achieved so much but usually this ends up just making someone more miserable since they realise they can't and they lose the enjoyment of what has just happened. It is so exciting when having been faced with something that isn't ideal you work out how to change it so you stop having the difficulty. It becomes so easy to forget how much you have just achieved.
Remember, celebrate your achievements and value how far you've come!
The wonderful outcome was that she was able to walk in a far easier and less effortful way sustainably within the lesson on her own. Once she had realised this she was understandably pleased and excited.
It was the next bit that took me a bit by surprised. From my point of view she had just had a major breakthrough that deserved celebrating and enjoying. A reward for the work she had put in previously. What did she want to do? Within about 10 seconds she wanted to work on about three other activities and solve this, that and another difficulty. It took a good 5-10 minutes to get her to pull back from trying to solve every problem under the sun there and then and to just be happy with what she had achieved and to just enjoy it. Saying that she did and came back at her next lesson more energetic and ready to improve.
It is easy to want to solve everything at once when you have achieved so much but usually this ends up just making someone more miserable since they realise they can't and they lose the enjoyment of what has just happened. It is so exciting when having been faced with something that isn't ideal you work out how to change it so you stop having the difficulty. It becomes so easy to forget how much you have just achieved.
Remember, celebrate your achievements and value how far you've come!
posted by Barbara @ 5:22 pm
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