As you get older, your systems start to fail. It's normal, but not nice.

My sister claims: After 40, something is lost every decade.

My score is 2 all. Are you scoring yet?

First decade, both my eyes popped out - retina detachments, new lenses, a lot of grief.

Second decade, I fell over and shattered my wrist - iron insert, operation, a lot of grief.

Now my leg is giving me grief! Is this the 3rd decade coming? NOT YET.

THE POETRY

By the river in Kyoto. I remember.

Family. Two girls lying flat, a father writing. The river flowing by.

Tribes. A dad holidaying his brood. Takes the time.

Blood. Girls. Teenagers about to fly. Different times of life.

What holds all this together?

THE ENGINEERING

Are you a detective when it come to your co-ordination issues?

I wrote about my approach recently in "My Leg is in Pain, and I have 3 Theories Why"

And Marja Krappe read that, then wrote back with her version of the same:

Couldn't agree more with that 1st theory.

I also got sudden pain in my right hip joint one day after walking about 10 min.

I’m hitting the stop button on my series of three.

Instead – today’s is Grace’s birthday, and it’s a good moment to reflect on my (and yours) mammalian instincts. These most often remain hidden to you, yet determine 99% of your actions.

That 1% is important: that 1% is Steve Jobs @ Apple. It’s Gandhi in India.

Conscious Constructive Guidance, the 1%.

I’ve been in a long term financial relationship with a newly found friend, and the time has come to ponder our next step together.

This is a sensitive moment.

It’s possible we can integrate in a profound (and mutually beneficial) partnership to do amazing biz things with Alexander's discovery or…

Or go a different way.

What to do? This is my emotional puzzle right now.

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Alexander didn’t invent the concept of Constructive Conscious Guidance.

Siddhārtha beat him to that by twenty-five hundred years.

Sorry old man, but psycho-physical unity, debauched kinaesthesia, inhibition, direction and the power of habit were already well-worked concepts before Jesus first appeared on the planet.

Not new. Nor original.

In 1999, I started touching in a new kind of way.

I touch like a Catholic – reverent, studious and caring. (The good ones)

The “studious” part is related to my anatomical studies, and putting together BodyThinking – my new online training program for analysing movements.

I would specifically target a muscle group - say the iliopsoas muscle in the pelvis upper leg and back are – and induce an action specific of that muscle.

I landed in Mullumbimby yesterday, here to be with my two teenage daughters. People back in Japan and elsewhere tell me:

“When you are in Australia, you are different.”

Really?

It is not that apparent to me. And I wonder – who am I that appears so differently depending on what place I am in…

Or is it what I am doing that causes me to appear differently?

Clare-Newman Constance pished back about my email "Teachers who Speak Nonsense":

Why is “send your back, back” wrong?

All the others I get, and seem like cultural norms but not what AT teachers say.

But we (or some) do say “back, back”

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OK, you may know what you mean by that.

Does your student?

Here’s a few things I don’t like:

1. Back is a vague term, suggesting a plane or surface area, without volume or substance.

How much do you separate Marketing from Teaching?

Two totally different things right?

Wrong.

You are doing what Carlos Ghosn found in Nissan…

"Fourth was the incredible compartmentalization of the company. … When you're in a company that doesn't work cross-functionally, everyone feels satisfied with his own performance, and assumes that bad results are someone else's fault. … Everyone can tell himself that the company wouldn't be in this fix if the other departments only did a better job."