I am thinking about my readers, those who have found my writing helpful in the past, whether you have read my books or just enjoyed my blogging. It is a time of buckling down to practices that soothe and bring us out of unnecessary mental stress. Easier said than done, I know, however, it is […]
Category: mental health
What Is Our Real Problem?
We have many thoughts all day long about how we believe we are supposed to be spending our time. Meanwhile, we are always spending our time some way. Alongside this, we feel like we have many problems. One of the themes of our problems is that the ways we spend our time don’t match up […]
Mindful Reality – a podcast interview
I am so pleased to share this wonderful audio interview of my work, Mindful Reality. Have a listen (it’s not very long)! https://bodylearning.buzzsprout.com/382/662822-mindful-reality-and-the-alexander-technique
Eliminating Problems
Problem. It is a constant feeling, a thought on everyone’s mind, all the time. Soon after we wake in the morning we remember, there is a problem. Somewhere. The mind is seeking for something it is uncomfortable with. Byron Katie would of course ask, “Is it true?” “Can you absolutely know it is true that […]
Life in Real Time: What We Are Doing
Hello, I don’t usually self-promote on my blog posts but today I would like to share this description of the practice I have developed called Mindful Reality and encourage anyone interested to read one or both of the books I have written (they are short), which you can find under the Book section of this blog! […]
Feeling Pressure to “Do” Something: The Physical Reality Principle
When I am feeling stressed, whether it be a result of guilt, worry, sadness, anger or fear, I feel like I need to do something to make things better. When weighed down by this pressure, I tell myself very directly that doing something is a physical act that requires the use and availability of my body. If my body is […]
Why We Don’t Make Decisions
I can see what I am doing next, as next is already here now. My body is sturdily in its activity, its weight on a particular surface and the rest of my parts in their specific movements, while the clock moves automatically (Earth rotating on its own accord). This is our only action, ever, our […]
The Issue of Fragmentation: The Mind-Body Connection
Notwithstanding the innate harmonization of the body, many of us still perceive ourself to be fragmented. The mind, for one, is commonly thought of as other than the body, and it is this misperception I would like to address here. The universal phrase “mind-body connection” reflects the impression that the mind and the body are […]
Action
Excerpt from “The Myth of Doing” I define action as the body’s existence in space, in any moment, in the configuration it is in, in relationship to its environment. Action is simply a person’s natural state of being; it is not something other or additional to that status, as our mind imagines. So even if […]
How Can It Be?
How can it be that this activity I am physically engaged in, sitting on the couch writing in my notebook, is the only thing I am supposed to be doing right now? That feels so wrong. What about all the other things I feel like I’m supposed to be attending to? Where would those actions […]
Jill Eng 