DREAMS TELL GENES WHAT TO DO!
IMAGINATION SWITCHES GENES ON AND OFF! It seems we are not, after all, victims of our birth.
That could that be a headline from a Sci-Fi magazine
or maybe a wild piece of uncorroborated research!
Well it sure is a headline that I’d like to see in the
national papers. What a blast! What a great change
it would make to “Scientists tell genes what to do”
How about..
YOUR BODY IS THE LIVING PICTURE OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. It is alive with thought! It moves according to your feelings!
YOUR THOUGHTS AND MEMORY ARE NOT IN YOUR BODY
YOUR BODY IS IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND MEMORY. You keep reminding your body how to be!
LIFE IS NOT HAPPENING TO YOU IT’S HAPPENING FROM YOU. Your imagination is not imaginary!
Hey, suddenly it’s not sounding so weird!
Even though our body has grown out of the gene pool
contributed by our parents it continues to be moulded
at each moment by our current thoughts and feelings.
The quality of our emotions becomes our state of health.
We become what we put our attention on.
When we focus on something our body gives it life,
energy and movement.
In actual practice these headlines already form a basis
for many of us. Those of us who work with others to
regenerate physical experience through the Power of
the self must regularly reconcile our apparent conflict
with the ‘official’ view of that self.
It is an exciting time though, as the two cultural interpretations
move closer to each others positions. Science is seen taking
up the position of a new religion and Psychology and
Metaphysics are attempting to become a new science.
Which headline would you prefer? What if all are true?
You ought to be willing to alter personal opinion when
it no longer matches experience. On the other hand you
should never surrender your personal perspective to
accommodate generally held opinions since generality
of opinion is no proof of truth.
Relying on my own truth I began in 1995 to develop a
practice that is now known as Akudu. I had trained in
the work of F M Alexander, a great Australian who felt
such confidence in his personal perspective that he
gave us the Alexander Technique.
Nevertheless I found that my experience over a few years
was not matching the interpretation that I had been given
by my teachers and further that Alexander’s own interpretation
of his experience had locked me into a practice that did not
reflect my own personal perspectives.
The art of living is living from within outwards.
This creative skill is not intellectual, not about how you grapple
with the world and wrestle it down
to get a living. Nor is it about how you control
behavior so that it doesn’t spoil your life, or how
you train your body through exercise and diet.
It is about how you use the self that you have.
How to be the ‘you’ that you are now; and how
to become the ‘you’ that is excited and fulfilled.
If life were a great big fancy restaurant you’d have
to ask yourself this question, why do some people
get the main course while others must be content
with the crumbs that fall from life’s table?
What is the art of living that puts us in the right place
at the right time? What life skills do we need so that
we can bring together what we need when we need it?
How can we get better, stay healthy, pull our own strings
and become the person that we most want to be?
If only there were a simple process for this that
was easy and that you could employ for your self
at will. If we had such a skill, and used it, we’d all
be laughing. I challenged myself to put together
such a simple process in a format easy enough
for most people to use and get results quickly.
Akudu is the outcome for me of that challenge; a
new tool in the art of living. An attention technique
that can transform your physical, mental and
emotional being.
Akudu requires a change in thinking - but only
a small one! And a change in effort - there is none!
First, group your process of thought, action, feeling
and energy together into a single unit. This grouping
is not hypothetical. It is already a functional grouping
in our daily life. I call this your complementary body.
Your complementary body is the rest of you. Usually
you have ignored it or tried to work on the pieces, that
is, working with fragments of the self. But this is a
unified ‘body of experience’ and it is the medium that
you, the artist, must use in the art of living.
This complementary body is the ‘within’ that has
always driven your life experiences.
Second, simply use the complementary body
as a unit. Then physical movement becomes
effortless. Emotional intensity evaporates.
Mental fog begins to clear.
But then using the complementary body is exactly
where we come unstuck. Right here, is our great
failure in the art of living. This is where we keep
messing up the picture of our life.
There was a moment for me when I discovered a location
for my attention that seemed to bind my mental, emotional
and physical awareness into unbroken, fluid, energized motion; It was a wow moment. Then I lost it. But I soon got it back.
I kept losing it and getting it again.
Though elusive, it turned out to be an embedded constant
and because of its location I called it the ‘edge’. I was not
meditating at the time. In fact I was tuning my own awareness
and attention into a very alert, wakeful, eyes open moment.
I have been developing my ‘edge’ work ever since. I soon realized that almost any one could probably get
the ‘edge’. I tried it out on my kids! My fourteen year old
was getting a lot of pain in her back from stressing about
herself at school and with her friends. She started using
Dad’s ‘edge’ thing and bingo, no more pain.
I tried it out on my clients and met with more successes, plus
a few failures that put me on a fast learning curve. I managed to
mangle myself up a few times. This ‘edge’ brought alarmingly
potent shifts of energy.Just like learning to ride a bike it took me
a bit of practice to get the inner balance right.
But the positive results were extraordinary. I had been working
as a teacher of the Alexander Technique for many years and never
achieved anything like this; an inner balance that moved my body
towards immunity, strength and vitality.
I wanted to make the ‘edge’ available to others.
Eventually I brought my range of skills and experience
together under the name Akudu...
The art and practice of AKUDU offers:
Tools to shift attention with ease to start creating what you want
in life. Physically, a way of moving that is graceful and fluid for a
strong and healthy body. A quick and simple daily practice to
develop your skills and keep these tools at your fingertips.
You can use AKUDU to:
Free yourself from emotional traps
Release the beliefs that pin you down
Eliminate stress, strain and tension
Rehabilitate from injury, regenerate well-being
and relieve physical aches and pains .
And most importantly to live the life of the person
that you really are.
Using our edge releases emotional intensity in seconds. We experience emotional freedom and feelings of buoyancy
and lightness. Our movements go from strain and tension
to ease and flow.
More than that, we arrive at a place of peace.
A mental stillness that is a release from the tyranny of our
internal dialogue. We become free of the incessant circle
of thinking, worry and concern. And all of this occurs at once.
There is no keeping a grip on all the steps till you get it.
The ‘edge’ brings us straight to a poise of immediacy...
An effortless state.
From this inner location we can project into a future self that
represents who we really want to be; a natural self that was
always waiting. We can project into our own personal past,
drawing on resources that have been untapped.
And they are always there.
It seems that we are not on a journey. We are not going any where.
We are becoming something... right where we are.
