What do you hate doing?!

My pet hate is doing the washing up, it is one of those acitivites that always needs doing but I never feel particularly enthusiastic about doing it. It is also one of the few remaining activities where I get my old familiar ache between the shoulder blades.

The other day I was doing the washing up and I ended up getting an ache in my upper back, this time, rather than just ignoring it or stopping the washing up until later I decided to apply some Alexander Technique thinking to it (an original thought or what!).

Well, that was a bit of a break through!

Why, I hear you ask?

Simple, I realised because I disliked the activity so much I had been ignoring it and leaving it as a "have to" activity rather than an activity that I could improve. What this has meant up to this point is that I hadn't tried to improve it - I'd just moaned about it and not done anything about it (sound familiar?). This time I was actually proactive enough to apply some Alexander Technique to it and guess what happened. I completely changed how I was performing the activity and my upper back stopped aching. All in a couple of minutes.

All I ask myself now is why did it take me so long to do it!!!