It happens so often, but every time it is mysterious. Alexander mentioned it:

Directly you get them to the point where they are right, they won't go on -- there is no urge -- they don't want to go on. 
That means that all energy and accomplishment can only be used when it is accompanied by the wrong thing.

That statement has always puzzled me a little, and it happened today in class. She wanted to sing, was pushing down, so I got in the way of that. It's my job. She bought her legs into the picture, we even danced a little. And then:

Kyoko Miyoshi is one of my Japanese students in CareerThinking – the optional course I personally run in for my students in Tokyo. It was to develop this course that I first began blogging in September, 2012. Recently I sent out an email asking people to tell me their story.

Fear is legitimate, but not smart.

There’s a book by Seth Godin called Linchpin which talks about the reptilian brain, and how fear in that area is hard to rationalize or understand. We all know it. The deep-bellied gnawing sensation that eats away confidence, vitality and life. I had it this morning for no specific reason. I could think of many reasons why I felt that, still do a little, but none of them add up to what I experience. I don’t have any “causally related” feeling that says “Oh that’s why.” It just is.

As I will be doing over the next 11 Sundays, these are the follow up reports from the original 12 teachers that offered to have their own situation analyzed by me. Part One is here, and Part Two is here, and this is Kit's reply to my outrageous suggestions.

Hikikomori is a name they use in Japan for a person who won’t leave their home, who will not venture into the world. These people can spend years living at home, often in their bedroom, even refusing to speak. It is an epidemic problem in Japan that touches most people. I have known of several, both through my family connections and through BodyChance Japan.

I am reposting this blog with my comments added. Today, Franis added a comment below, starting with the question: "It sounds like a plan, doesn't it?" and my basic answer is "Not yet." You are on the way, but until you get specific about finding the real people who can be spoken to without having a budget the size of Apple to find them, your plan is incomplete. I think Franis is an interesting and creative person, and the perspective of my comments is focused on how she can make a living as a teacher of Alexander Technique.

1. What drives you towards this career?

I needed someone to kick me into wakefulness and there you came, slowly but surely, with your daily insights into your own emotional world and how you go about it, I never thought it was dark, it was always engaging, enlightening maybe people too close to you were that, too close, when you are more detached it might be easier not to be upset.

Updated May 14th, 2013.

In a late night Skype chat with Costin in Romania, he solved my problem of gathering all your information from Survey Monkey and assembling it so that we have only the answers the first step of my 12 Step Plan. Here are your responses*

*This document will be revised tomorrow to include up-to-date data. If yours is not here, come back tomorrow and check…

IN THE ORDER THAT THEY WERE RECEIVED…

Suze Huson (, )

1. What drives you towards this career?

Yesterday I wrote a rambling blog, talking about the future, this membership website, my “insider thinking.” I also wrote that I would present three ideas that I could offer on this website and hear your opinion. But before I do all of that - today I want to focus on how I got to this point.

My apologies.

Since I started blogging so fiercely last January, I have not missed a day that I intended to write. But even for me, I overstretched by trying to launch this website, while simultaneously overseeing our annual school residential for 110 students, teachers and visitors from overseas.

It was Nigel Newton’s 8 year old daughter that convinced him, after several months, to write a cheque for £2,500 as an advance to J. K. Rowling for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. In an interview with The Independent, where he admitted he didn’t actually read the book at first, but instead came home and gave it to his daughter to read:

“She came down from her room an hour later glowing, saying, ‘Dad, this is so much better than anything else.’ She nagged and nagged me in the following months, wanting to see what came next.”