This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Driving a Car (Automobile), is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to create the driving technique you want without sacrificing your body.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
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Primary Control is the basis of organized coordinated car driving in the Alexander Technique. When a driver is driving with the organized easy comfortable movements, then the head is leading the driver’s spine into lengthening, as the arms and hands move from a decompressed, vertically balanced, and aligned spine, supported by the car seat.
This means that all of the nerves that radiate from the spinal cord have no pressure on them. So, the nerves can send the signals from the brain for movement and/or muscular support, as you drive, without being slowed down by the vertebrae and muscles pinching the nerves.
The brain and spinal cord always organize the movement that the body produces, but when the Primary Control is interfered with by muscular tension and compression and poor posture, then that organization is poor organization. THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE IS ALL ABOUT THE QUALITY OF A DRIVER’S POSTURE AND MOVEMENTS.
The Alexander Technique recognizes that a huge amount of wear and tear and physical pain to the driver is caused by how you drive, not by how long you drive.
The assumption in the Alexander Technique is that we are born with an innate ability to move with beautiful Primary Control, and that babies crawl with the head leading a lengthening spine naturally, given that the baby is healthy in a healthy environment.
If you were to observe a 1,000 drivers driving, you’d be hard put to see one driver driving with beautiful Primary Control (given that none of them had done any Alexander Technique work). What does driving without a compromised Primary Control look like?
The driver sits fully upright supported by the car seat with a completely mobile body (not trying to sit straight). The driver’s neck is free and the driver is aware that the head is leading a lengthening spine upward, which means that the driver is able to see what all of the other drivers are doing all around him or herself, as the head continues to lead a lengthening spine upward.
This means that the driver is completely engaged in driving without hunkering down to control the car. This fully upward mobile posture balancing on the sit bones, gives the shoulders and arms of the driver a balanced torso to float on, so that the driver can effortlessly turn the steering wheel with free arms and shoulders.
When the driver’s shoulders are floating on a fully upright torso, then the shoulder girdle is free to back up the arms and hands as the driver drives, and the shoulder girdle doesn’t have to tense up to support itself.
When the driver’s body is organized by the Primary Control, then the driver is free to place all of his or her awareness on a driving technique that isn’t being compromised by a compromised Primary Control. In other words, if the driver’s body is collapsed or over-tense with poor head/neck/spine organization, then the driver can’t drive long distances without discomfort.
WHEN THE FOUNDATION OF COORDINATED HUMAN MOVEMENT IS COMPROMISED, THEN DRIVING WILL NEVER BE AS EFFORTLESS AS IT COULD BE.
