July 2021

31 Jul

18 Essential Concepts of My Alexander Teaching Method

by Jeremy Chance

1.   People live perfectly with the information they have
2.   Pain is friendly and supportive to the person who has it
3.   Pain results from confused thinking - the truth sets you free
4.   Accurate information is the engine of conscious evolution
5.   Cognitive recognition of experience is paramount in changing behaviour
6.   Head movements govern vertebral co-ordination and subsequent activities

25 Jul

Helping Others is the Fastest Route to Helping Your Self

by Jeremy Chance

I love hanging out with GenZenners (born between 1997~2015) when they can tolerate a Boomer like me. My two daughters are in that club, and I know a few in Tokyo too.

There’s life in the old boy yet.

One topic that is popular amongst them is the right to be Selfish.

24 Jul

A Late-Life Crisis

by Jeremy Chance

Can you have a late-life crisis?

I’ve done the ‘middle life crisis’ thingy – and several times at that – so I guess it’s time to pull a different coloured rabbit out of the hat…

So here we, on a sultry summer’s day on the eve of the Sad Tokyo Olympics with a blossoming late-life crisis to contend with. It didn’t begin all at once as an existential hole; it began lightly…

My knee swelled up.

I told my running mate Malcolm Balk that maybe I have water-on-the-knee…