Welcome to lecture three. In this lecture, we're going to talk about faulty sensory appreciation. Alexander's term, faulty sensory appreciation. So it's similar to proprioception. And that is where I sense My body is in space. A good way to help us learn about this and to make it simpler is we look at our posture when we're young.
Okay, we've got perfect poise and posture when we're young. And again, as toddlers, we have very good use and very good poise. And then, when we start to go to school, you can see where the problem starts. We start to pull ourselves out of shape, trying to do activities and, you know, do things fast and we do. Children do what they're told. And they compete and they just, they In the process of doing this, they compromise their points.
So, also, children, we learn from our parents, we learn from the people around us. So a child imitates their parents, and they do things that they do. So even though it could be wrong, they still do it because they think it's correct. So they're very susceptible to picking up bad habits. And then secondary education, it's more of the same. Sitting at desks doing exams for long periods of time.
This over time can start to pull the natural poise out of shape. here's just another picture of a girl. It's very common to see this. Okay. And then we go to work after After education, we start to go to work. So you can see where faulty muscle sense comes from, from years of using myself badly if I'm using sitting at desks writing, driving cars.
Over a long period of time, the the the body gets pulled out of shape. All right? Again, there's just a picture of driving. So this is what Alexander calls faulty sensory appreciation. So how can we improve this? Well, when you have lessons in the Alexander Technique you improve, you can improve your faulty sensory appreciation.
Alexander said, every experience you have is transmitted into muscular tension. So if I have many, if I have a stressful lifestyle, and I'm stressing myself every day, and stressing yourself means triggering the fear reflex, and what happens is Your, your emotions are stored in your muscles. And so when you release this muscle tension, you feel much better and you feel lighter and freer, and your body goes back into its natural position. Another example is, this guy thinks he's standing up straight. So in his mind, he thinks that this is straight. But in actual fact, it's not really straight, okay?
He's using far too much tension to hold himself operate like this. So he's using too much tension. Whereas this guy standing up straight, and he's not doing anything to stand up straight. He's actually not holding any tension at all yet. He's standing up perfectly straight and poised. So again, Alexandra would cause us faulty sensory appreciation.
The guy has got a PR a preconceived idea of what straight is when when actual fact, it's only by leaving yourself alone and release intention that you will go back into your natural upright poise, and actually be standing up straight. So that's my lecture on faulty sensory appreciation. Again, it's got to do with proprioception. And when you have lessons in the Alexander Technique, your 40 sensory appreciation improves dramatically.