View points

1. What do you like about Viewpoints?

It was interesting to play around with how the people around you moved and how it was going to affect you. Also the surrounding furniture and sounds also brought some affects to the table. Like music was more fun to work with but without the music play you could hear everything and everyone. For examples you could tell by footsteps or the sounds of joints cracking. I liked that we all worked as a group but we're still able to keep our individuality. Like the grid, we all were on the same lines but the way we reacted to each other when we were close to contact was our own ordinal impulses.

2. Where there any moments that felt particularly alive for you?
I feel like when props were added in everyone got to experience an ego free state and were able to let the kid out of them. It felt very alive and authentic because we were all just reacting with our natural impulses.

3. Where there times when the activity felt dead and forced? If so why and when?

I feel like the only time something was ever forced was when we had to try and balance the room. I personally felt like I had to run to the other side if no one was there so I defiantly felt like that was restraining me from being able to let go of that structure. 

• a. Summarize Primary Control, Unreliable Sensory Appreciation, Inhibition, Direction, Ends and Means
  
• b. Reflection: What did you find interesting, helpful, confusing, etc. about the reading?

Primary control- is the dynamic ever changing relationship for better or for worse in every position 

Unreliable sensory appreciation- use or reliability on kinetic senses 

Inhibition- the ability to stop and delay our responses until we are ready

Direction - is the position of you body to have the best free and placed voice

Ends And Means-to keep all the options open so that he could find out which would work out the best

I feel like it is very repetitive and confusing just the language of the book like there was never really a straight forward answer and the explanations are usually just examples. The categories in this are interesting but are not original for example ends and means is like that saying of the ends justify the means which may have been what he was trying to say.

Alexander technic

Alexander was the oldest of eight kids in Australia. He had a massive temper so he never really kept a job for too long. When he hit his early twenties he decided to start acting. He would stand in front of he mirror to notice his manner of doing. He discovered primary control. he decided he wanted to learn how the positions of the body affected the voice. In 1899 he went to Sydney to talk to surgeons about what he learned. As time went on people started to understand and someone explained it as a 'new direction for education'. His work was attacked by Dr. Ernt Jokl and he testified the science behind his work and won the case in 1948. He had a stroke and was paralyzed on the left side, it didn't stop him. People said that the last five years he did his best teaching then. He died in 1955.

The use and function that Alexander talks about is the use and function of the body. Use is the process of control overall actions that seemed to have potential to control. "successful efforts to overcome destructive habits is the fundamental decision to change". Function is "the most fundamental form of misuse is failure to make choices. we can choose we have a choice". 'The body is our instrument for fulfilling our purpose on earth'. The way we use and function is how we show our presence on earth.