l.

The opposite of wrong is wrong.

2.

"End-gaining" is a virtuoso of camouflaging itself.

3.

Don't expect the chicken to see what the eagle can see.

4.

Our civilization is the projection of the sort of brain activity we exercise. If humanity in general will exercise and experience the F.M. Alexander's Way, our civilization will change essentially. The F.M. Alexander's Way is not for us to adjust better to our present civilization which leads us to self-destruction. An ever rising level of consciousness is the only chance for humanity.

5.

Those who pretend they teach the F.M. Alexander Technique deal as a matter of fact with the functioning of the body, and not with the Use of the Self, as a whole and total entity. They ignore the fact that the body is the mirror of the mind activity of the brain, and what has to change therefore is the "brain-discipline", first and continuously, as an endless process.

6.

When we relate to our sensory appreciation we relate not only to our senses - vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch - but also to our emotional sensory appreciation, that became unreliable as a result of subconscious guidance and control.

7.

"End-gaining" is the "wrong". To give up the wrong - this is "Inhibition". If you do so, the "right" will take place.

8.

F.M. Alexander said: "The conscious mind must be quickened". We can say it must function like lightning - lightning feedback activity. This activity should not be filtered through the intellect. "The agency of the intellect" is a stumbling block in the understanding of the Whole.

9.

"Inhibition" is the endless process of giving up the "End-gaining".

10.

We have to have the "creative conception" of "The Way" and with it to activate the continuous consent for the application of "The Way" in our daily activities.

11.

Those who seek for a guru are not competent of learning.

12.

"End-gaining" is the child of fears of the Unknown; the child of craving for security and for the Permanent - the unchanging. Ambition is the "Child of End-gaining" and so is our competitive human society. Our misuse is the "Grand Child". All of them are born in our brain. They are not natural necessity.

13.

Those who admire the Teacher do not learn anything. They merely obey and imitate blindly.

14.

"End-gaining" is the genius of "Self-Hiding".

15.

F.M. Alexander Technique (Way) is a process of re-integration, with the process of Nature through Conscious Guidance and Control.

16.

Be honest but daring.

17.

If you don't try to be good you will be better.

18.

"This consciousness is really a state of acute awareness". From "Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual", page 135 (About the Conscious Guidance and Control).

19.

Results are only milestones along the way.

20.

Don't expect the chicken to have the eagle's wing span.

21.

If we don't have time we exist but not live.

22.

In order to lose our fears we have, first, consciously to lose the fear of losing fears.

23.

Many poeple find it right to shoot first and then to draw the Bull's eye around the hit.

24.

Don't look for the "right"; be aware of the wrong and give it up.

25.

Our civilization and culture are based on an illusive reality.

26.

Our fears paralyse our intelligence.

27.

We should have a "million years of patience" - then things can happen in no time; but if we don't have this "million years of patience" - things will not happen in a million years.

28.

Don't hide behind excuses, explanations and apologies.

29.

O.K. - your conclusions are 1ogical - what follows?

30.

Don't look for results - constantly clear the Way.

31.

Don't look for results - you have then the chance to meet them on the Way.

32.

Don't expect the chicken to express itself in the eagle's way.

33.

Peace is not a commercial item; you can't sell it, you can't buy it, you can't negotiate it. Peace is in and of the mind.

34.

Don't look for miracles: direct!
Don't look for the Directions: direct!
Don't try to feel the Directions: direct!
Don't "do" the Directions:.direct!
Don't "wait": direct!

35.

Your hands begin to conve ythechangeinyourbrainactivity.

36.

Don't be afraid of being confused. Accept the challenge of being confused.

37.

There are no real changes that are not accompanied by confusion.

38.

Don't hamper your brain activity by using the filter of the intellect.

39.

Don't try to secure your habitual balance, allow yourself to feel insecured.

40.

You are afraid of changes? You are afraid to feel wrong or lost? You are not ripe for the Alexander Technique.

41.

There are no stupid children; there are stupid parents.

42.

Lose the tensions and the intentions.

43.

We are very enthusiastic and eager to criticize others, but not ourselves.

44.

The PROCESS is a combined and simultaneous operation, and not in stages.

45.

Don't interfere with the process by relying on your sensory appreciation.

46.

Direct with all your heart and not half-hearted - don't compromise.

47.

"Inhibition" is neither blocking, nor "Relaxation".

48.

"Sophistication" is not "Wisdom". Wisdom is simple.

49.

Don't tell me "stories" - nourish the "Directions", instead.

50.

You say your teacher has "good hands". What do you mean by this?

51.

First we misuse ourselves and then, when the crisis comes we look for a Saviour and his miracles.

52.

Be in command - don't try to control by means of your sensory appreciation.

53.

Don't brake and accelerate at the same time.

54.

Nina describes the way we use ourselves habitually: "Strong in the wrong".

55.

It is not wise to try to be clever.

56.

If you want to excuse yourself, write it down in the "Book of Excuses".

57.

Don't care - be aware.

58.

Don't be worried - be aware.

59.

Don't know - learn.

60.

Let the excitement sink.

61.

Here when I tell you, you are wrong - accept it with all your heart or go home.

62.

Never just correct the pupil while neglecting yourself at the same time. Continue to give up the wrong in yourself.

63.

When I tell you what is wrong with you, don't answer "yes,yes", but take the necessary steps.

64.

If you struggle to achieve the "right" you are still wrong.

65.

Don't be careful nor reckless.

66.

Don't expect an eagle's chick to come out of a chicken's egg.

67.

Some human relations are like an illness - we have to go through it and get rid of it.

68.

It's all in the brain; it's all from the brain; it's all through the brain.

69.

Take it easy. Let it go; allow it to happen.

70.

From the book "The Way of Chuang Tzu": "Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into many". From the "Use of the Self" of F.M. Alexander: "All together, one after the other". Always and continuously and simultaneously "all together" and "one after the other" within it.

71.

Don't make yourself suffer because of the Directions - simply direct.

72.

Illusions are the mental armour we created in order to defend ourselves from our fears. The projection of this armour is expressed in our bodies.

73.

You can't tame a cow to lay eggs; you can't convince a chicken to produce milk; but you still think you can deal with the F.M. Alexander Way while you totally ignore the Conscious Control!

74.

In life we deal habitually and normally with the leaves just before they wither and not with the roots.

75.

Don't be optimist, don't be pessimist: be realist.

76.

We are just guests on Earth. We must cooperate with our hostess and not be hostile to her.

77.

Undo the "doing" by means of "non-doing".

78.

We are ready to spend a lot of energy and time for learning tricks and the "right doing". But we are very lazy when it comes to use the brain in a different way, that is essential and necessary for the required changes to happen.

79.

It is very positive to be aware of the negative, and then as a consequence to give up the wrong.

80.

Love can exist only when and where fears don't exist.

81.

You put your hands without the brain behind them. Anyhow - don't PUT your hands - USE them.

82.

If we employ and apply the right "Means-whereby" things happen at the ripe moment.

83.

You don't learn by trying to learn.

84.

Energize and accelerate your Directions and don't use your muscles in the habitual way, and don't look for results.

85.

You fix yourself in order to move - stop it.

86.

When F.M. Alexander gave the title to his first book "Man's supreme inheritance" he related the title to the "Conscious Control" - this is the "State of acute Awareness".

87.

Don't think - use your whole brain.

88.

Don't make music - be the music.

89.

You say you want to improve yourself? O.K. Stop to interfere with the flow of energies in your self, by giving up the "End-gaining" mental attitude.

90.

For F.M. Alexander the "Movement" (visible movement) was no more than an indicator, or a mirror, for the general Use of the Self (psycho-physical entity); the reflection of the brain activity - the mental attitude toward life - through the medium of the body. In order to improve ourselves, to improve our reactions to stimuli, we have to employ a different brain activity from the one we employ normally and habitually. It means to switch to Conscious Control - man's supreme inheritance. That is what the F.M. Alexander Technique is about.

91.

In the F.M. Alexander Technique the mirrors are used properly only when the brain is properly used.

92.

Before we fix our body, we fix our brain.

93.

Don't look for results - don't ignore the results.

94.

Don't look for results - produce the results without any intention and end, while the process continues endlessly.

95.

All the writings about F.M. Alexander Technique are like an avalanche of words combined in sophisticated and clever sentences, that cover the truth - that is a fatal misunderstanding and misapplication of the F.M. Alexander Technique.

96.

Those who cannot stand alone are not ripe for cooperation.

97.

In all what people wrote about F.M..Alexander Technique, one thing is missing - the F.M. Alexander Technique.

98.

Don't tell me which steps should be taken - make them.

99.

Continue the process of giving up the wrong, and you are on the right way.

100.

Humanity does not want to give up the mental attitude of children of the kindergarden age. It becomes more sophisticated, more cunning, cleverer, but still - kindergarden mentality.

101.

Take responsibility for yourself; don't break into pieces.

102.

Don't try to be right; give up being wrong.

103.

Don't worry about your muscles - anyhow they follow the brain.

104.

Let your instrument sing; don't force it to sing.

105.

What is confusion? Is it not facing the unknown with the wrong "means-whereby"?

106.

In all that was written about F.M. Alexander Technique by, so called, professional practitioners in the field of the F.M. Alexander Technique - and by others - one can realize clearly that their old habitual mental attitude is still guiding them and dominates the manner of their reactions to the stimuli of life. And because of this it is impossible for them to apply practically the F.M. Alexander Principles in themselves - not to speak to teach the application of these principles to others. Their intellectually orientated and filtered brain activity suffocates all possibilities for the employment of the Conscious Control.

107.

Be everywhere and all over in no time at the same time.

108.

We can't give up being "End-gainers" before and unless we are aware and understand through practical experience what it is "End-gaining".

109.

The F.M. Alexander Technique is like a rain-bow for those who try to grasp, hold and keep it intellectually, and are not ready to make a fundamental change in their mental attitude. Unfortunately most of - so called - civilized people belong to the above category of mental attitude and state of mind - including those who pretend to be professional practitioners of the F.M. Alexander. Technique.

11O.

It is wrong to look for the right; it is wrong to look for the wrong; it is wrong to LOOK for anything.

111.

To concentrate it means to ignore the interrelations within the Whole.

112.

The application of the Conscious Control brings us the freedom from the slavery of the emotional reactions.

113.

Not to compromise does not mean to be rigid.

114.

For a long time I told my spine to open, to spread; now my spine tells me to open, to spread; non-stop.

115.

Those who explain themselves - in relation to their reactions to the stimuli of life - are really trying to excuse and justify their wrong as right.

116.

Don't do the right; let it be done.

117.

Anarchy is not freedom; freedom is not anarchy.

118.

The timeless is full of moments.

119.

You can't catch the wind; you can't hold the wind; wind exists only as a continuous process.

120.

Ends are reactions to stimuli born in our brain. These reactions are the products of our subconscious guidance and control. We are then "End-gainers". Mhen our Conscious Guidance and Control is involved in the process, the proper "Means-whereby" are employed and the required end is gained within the process.

12l.

As 1ong as the habitual mental attitude exists, the required process can't take place.

122.

The more you try to be right the more you will be wrong. So don't try to be right and instead deal with the wrong - stop it.

123.

With and through the Conscious Control we are absorbed in IT, not concentrated on IT.

124.

When you don't worry about time, the time within the timeless is at your disposal.

125.

You deal with the flow of the visible movements, but not really with the required brain activity - the change of the mental attitude - needed to allow the change which will produce the conditions through which movements will flow.

I deal - while giving the pupil the practical experience of the conditions (Directions) required to enable the Primary Control to function naturally and so the visible movements will flow - with the changing of the mental attitude. This change in the mental attitude - the adaptation and application of the Conscious Control - is a corner stone for having a "creative conception" and an "active consent" to allow free flow of energies within us as a "whole". Then the movements flow, but we don't bother about it anymore.

126.

You say you apply the Conscious Guidance and Control; but it is very clear that you continue to apply your habitual subconscious guidance and control through the agency of the intellect; and still you consider yourself as practitioners of the F.M. Alexander Technique!

127.

Not to hold, to let IT go, to allow IT to happen, does not mean to become "dead"-heavy.

128.

The F.M. Alexander Technique (Way) is a guide for life, not an end by itself.

129.

The required changes can't be realized unless the habitual interpretation of stimuli and reactions is given up.

130.

You experience, again and again, through our work that it is wrong to try to do the right thing, and yet you continue to try to do the right thing; why?

131.

Can the eagle fly without spreading his wings? Can we "fly" in our daily. activities without spreading our back through our brain?

132.

Sometimes when we think we are going to die, this is the moment we begin to l ive.FONTFONT

133.

If you "sweat" in your brain, you will not "sweat" in your muscles.

134.

The boat moves when the sail expands by the wind. Your back is your "sail" and the brain is the source of the "wind".

135.

The International Congress of Teachers of the F.M. Alexander Technique reminds me of a decoration of cinema spectacle: A facade of a grandiose palace made of plywood and cardboard, and behind it no more than a falling mud hut without foundation.

136.

Those who admire don't have the chance to exercise logic and common sense; they are slaves of their own habitua1 subconscious guidance and control, of their emotional reactions to stimuli; of their fears. They are dazzled by their own mental state and attitude, and therefore they can't - or even refuse to - recognize the shortcomings and the wrong in the subject of their admiration. Appreciation and respect - this is a different story.

137.

Use your hands without looking for ends and results; without expectations; without intentions; without destination. Let the Conscious Control be the "engine" of your hands.

138.

When you spread the sail don't keep the boat anchored.

139.

When a person is an individualistic person, it does not mean that this person is an egocentric one.

140.

When an egocentric person has distinguished talents they normally grow into charlatanism.

141.

In each egocentric person is rooted and hidden a deep inferiority complex.

142.

You can't see the Way unless you open your eyes (brain).

143.

Get rid of illusions; life is not a cinema - life is real.

144.

The brain stimulates the "wind" (energies) to blow; our back is the "sail" (collects and converts the energies); the rest is the "boat". But at the same time they are the "one" - the "whole" - the "All together and the one after the other".

145.

First we have to understand what responsibility really means, in order to experience it continuously in practice. Then the real process of learning life is switched on.

146.

You can't really deal properly with your Primary Control unless you really and honestly deal with your habitual mental attitude. Did you ever meet a teacher of the F.M. Alexander Technique whose mental attitude was changed?

147.

The F.M. Alexander Technique as it is practiced nowadays is as real as Disney Land.

148.

You apply "End-gaining" while TRYING not to be an "End-gainer".

149.

Better be a content amateur rather than a frustrated professional.

150.

The "Inhibition" can be realized only when the mental attitude is free of "End-gaining".

151.

F.M. Alexander called IT "Conscious Control"; J. Krishnamurti called IT "Choiceless Awareness". You can ca11 IT "Total Awareness", "Awareness of the Whole", "Awareness of the One". Call IT whatever you like - this IT will not be real and a continuous process as long as we don't free ourselves of our habitual mental attitude. Without a different mental attitude the teaching of the F.M. Alexander Technique is no more than gymnastics guided by manipulation.

152.

Criticism - a corner stone of the F.M. Alexander Technique - is totally unaccepted by those who pretend they teach the F.M. Alexander Technique unless you tell them they are O.K. and doing it all right.

153.

You are so busy directing that you can't practically direct.

154.

Light hands are not necessarily lively hands.

155.

As long as your brain is full of words and talks, and thoughts in words the application of the F.M. Alexander Technique is practically impossible.

156.

How do you expect to learn when your head is stuffed with knowledge?

157.

I wonder if will come a time when you will rely on your own brain and not on mine.

158.

I give you the key to the switch of the starter of the new brain activity but you are the one who has to turn it on.

159.

Let IT happen through your muscles; don't do IT with your muscles.

160.

Don't panic when you are told (or discover) that you are wrong; but find the courage to give up the habitual reaction - which normally is wrong to the stimuli.

161.

If by te'aching you don't learn, your teaching is not real teaching.

162.

Unfullfilled childhood is not an excuse not to take responsibility for ourselves as adults.

163.

I can produce for you, in your body, the experience of the "Directions", but YOU will accept them and reproduce them for yourself only as far as your habitual mental state and mental attitude allow it.

164.

All of them can repeat - like parrots - "Neck free; head forward and up; back lengthen and widen"; but who of them can practically produce IT in himself, or for himself? They can put their hands on a pupil and endlessly repeat the Mantra: "Neckfreeheadforwardandupbacklengthenandwiden"; but their hands convey nothing more than illusive sensation of what they think is the right stuff.

165.

To try, especially to try hard, it means normally and habitually to look for achievement, for the end, ignoring the "Means-whereby" while being busy with the end.

166.

Those who pretend they defend and protect democracy, as a matter of fact, bring about its destruction, by misusing its basic principles. The same applies to Societies, like the S.T.A.T., for example: They defend their own personal weaknesses and murder the real F.M. Alexander Technique.

167.

The Sensory Appreciation is a function of the brain - it is what happens in the brain to the information (stimuli) received by the senses and conveyed through the nerves to the brain. Our Habitual Use of ourselves - the by-product of our way of life and the prevailing general attitude in our civilization - does not respond properly to the natural messages of our senses. Therefore humanity looks as it looks now - not showing the slightest sign of readiness for the necessary changes to take place.

168.

The Conscious Control can't be operative as long as the filter of the intellect is operative in our brain.

169.

F.M. Alexander described it: "All together and one after the other". All together is the Timeless; one after the other are the moments within the Timeless.

170.

When F.M. Alexander began to watch himself in the mirror he didn't know what he will discover. When you watch yourself in the mirror you are intellectually conditioned by F.M..Alexander's discoveries;

171.

You concentrate? - It means you are not with the Whole. Your mind wanders? It means you are not with the Whole.

172.

Andreas said: "If I would shout at myself, you would not have to shout at me". In other words he meant to say that if he would be awaken in his mind and in a state of awareness (applying properly the Conscious Control) he would not need to be "hammered" by the teacher and could rely on the reactions of his own brain.

173.

It is not hard to train the muscles in the conventional - habitual way. It is very hard to train the brain for the acceptance and application of the Conscious Control, and to produce through it the Creative Conception and the Active Consent, which will activate the muscles as they should work by Nature.

174.

You THINK that, when you SAY that from now on you apply the Conscious Control, it works - just forget it! As long as you cling to your habitual mental attitude it can't work.

175.

To try to live in the Present - now and here - is as wrong as to live in the Past or in the Future. On the other hand - to understand the Timeless and to live it; to experience the moments within the Timeless - this is another story.

176.

From the bible:
DEUTERONOMY Chapter 30 11-14
"For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in the mouth, and in thy heart, that thow mayest do it". Do you understand what it means? Do you really understand?

177.

All of us are infected by the germs of Stupidity. Most of us are infected by the dangerous destructive kind of it; only some of us by its harmless kind.

178.

Don't look for rewards; take responsibility for your reactions; don't excuse yourself and don't complain when you are punished by Nature.

179.

You can't set off your journey along the real and true F.M. Alexander Way, unless you are equipped with a certain mental attitude - similar to the one F.M. Alexander had when he set off on his route of investigation, and never he neglected his mental attitude.

180.

The F.M. Alexander Way passes through many unexpected and unavoidable "dark tunnels".

181.

When we look for results, reluctantly we deal with symptoms - bits and pieces - and ignore the Whole.

182.

You waste your time, you ruin your life by being in a hurry.

183.

Don't expect to be able to satisfy the whole world; don't think you can please the whole world; don't expect to be accepted by the whole world; true friends are very rare in our world.

184.

When I practice and participate with a pupil the F.M. Alexander Way, the whole humanity is mirrored in the pupil. The micro and the macro are the same.

185.

It seems that animals are wiser than we are they didn't develop and don't nourish an illusive reality.

186.

The Way is so clear and transparent, that it is very hard to see and recognize it through the very "dark sunglasses" we fixed in front of the "eyes" of our brain - this is the "Filter of the Intellect", the "armour" we create in our brain - in order to shelter ourselves from our fears and the "naked" reality. So the first step that should be taken is to get rid of the "dark sunglasses".

187.

If you obey me, you can't be creative. If you antagonize me, you can't be creative. If your mental attitude is of readiness to accept changes, to accept the unknown, to explore, not to be fixed in a "mental armour" - we can go together, to flow together with the unceasing process of life; we have then the chance to be fully creative.

188.

We can describe all the writings concerning the F.N. Alexander Technique as "an endeavour to theorize a practical Way that can't be experienced or explained by and through words".

189.

You can't experience the Timeless with a stopwatch in your brain.

190.

If the eagle would use his back and wings as you use your back and arms, he would never be able to take off.

191.

We can't let the energies flow freely in the body unless we allow the energies to flow freely in the brain.

192.

There is no doubt that I have to take the responsibiliy for my own stupidity; but why do I have to take the responsibility for the stupidity of the rest of the world?

193.

For my own stupidity I have to pay, but I am forced to pay for the stupidity of the rest of the world.

194.

See not to let your head and back collapse into your spine - but don't DO the opposite.

195.

Instead of passing through the "dark tunnels" in life, in order to be able to experience the true natural light, we invented the artificial light the illusive reality - and stay with it in the "dark tunnels".

196.

Sit down, but don't sit down and still sit down - o.k. gain the end, but not by means of "End-gaining".

197.

The necessary steps can't take place and be in process unless the mind is tuned for the total acceptance of such change. The necessary change can't take place and be in process as long as the habitual fears are in command.