Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique evaluates and explores the opportunities of it being an effective and safe technique that can be integrated as a holistic healing modality within the nursing practice and self-care. “The Alexander Principle states: that there are certain ways of using your body which are better than certain other ways; that when you reject these better ways of using your body, your functioning will begin to suffer in some important respects; that it is useful to assess other people by the way they use themselves” (Barlow, 1990, p. 3-4). Convincing evidence subsists the usefulness of the Alexander Technique.

Exploring the Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique is an interesting holistic healing modality practice. This research
Use is a word that implies something with purpose, what if that purpose has affecting functioning. According to Wilfred Barlow (1990), “ Use means the way we use our bodies as we live from moment to moment. Not only when we are speaking, but when we are thinking.” (pg. 8) We use our bodies as a means of function to complete activities or daily life tasks that can become habits that can harm an individual later on in life, using body posture wrong or something as simple as depression making some body parts to ache and hurt is a good example. He states, “ By the time we reach adult life, if not before, most of us will have developed tension habits that are harmful. The habits at first may show themselves only as trifling inconsistencies of behavior, or perhaps as occasional muscular pain or clumsiness” (Barlow, 1990,
This technique is mostly shown through hands on instructions. It suppose to focus on the present experience making the instructor develop a save relaxation for the client to understand, learn, and create a psychological awareness that they are able to unblock the blockage that they have built as an obstruction of their desire state of being. Alexander insisted that our head, neck, and back was an important fundamental. According to Gelb (1995) states, “ Alexander now understood that functioning of his vocal mechanism was influenced not only by his head and neck but by the pattern of tension throughout his body” (p.12). However, there have been trials that established a positive result in the movement of coordination, balance, posture regulation as well as muscle tone compliances. Alexander had established a experiment that included 108 young men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two, placing a tape that went from the head to the back observing how much the tape moved downed over the ink mark that was place over the prominent vertebra. He found that out of 108 only one didn't move the tape, he was trying to explain the complexity of re-teaching one-self how to sit properly with proper posture. “ It is not surprising that most of these young men could not change their habitual head movement simply by trying.