Disengaging Your Parking Brake
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- You may assert a gentle intention of “I want to stop doing this” if you want, but be careful to keep this non-judgemental, because judgement will incline you towards trying not to do the thing, which is what you want to avoid.
What you’re aiming for is to ‘decline to give consent’ to your urge to fix — the Alexander Technique skill of inhibition — while maintaining a clear intention that you want to stop doing the thing.
title: “Disengaging Your Parking Brake”
author: “expandingawareness.org”
url: ”https://expandingawareness.org/blog/disengaging-your-parking-brake/”
date: 2023-12-19
source: hypothesis
tags: media/articles
Disengaging Your Parking Brake
Metadata
Highlights
- You may assert a gentle intention of “I want to stop doing this” if you want, but be careful to keep this non-judgemental, because judgement will incline you towards trying not to do the thing, which is what you want to avoid.
What you’re aiming for is to ‘decline to give consent’ to your urge to fix — the Alexander Technique skill of inhibition — while maintaining a clear intention that you want to stop doing the thing.