This is what Gary Neville said on ITV last night, after our valiant '3 Lions' team lost to Croatia in the World Cup semi-final: "I think back to my career and watching players: the best players, in the final third, they always looked like ice cold and they always slowed themselves down and looked like they had that extra moment to find the pass. [Whereas tonight] we looked really rushed...so we never quite see the pass or the run of Harry Kane...we're always too rushed in our minds...the young players, they just don't slow themselves down in their minds enough...But that's youth. And that's maturity."
When we rush, the mind is ahead of the body, which can only ever be in real time. The body doesn't like this split, and reacts by tensing up. A benefit of the Alexander Technique - and one badly needed in our pressurized modern world - is that it teaches us to be less 'rushed in our minds'.
When we rush, the mind is ahead of the body, which can only ever be in real time. The body doesn't like this split, and reacts by tensing up. A benefit of the Alexander Technique - and one badly needed in our pressurized modern world - is that it teaches us to be less 'rushed in our minds'.
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