AEQ BREATHING
Accepting/giving, opening/closing, expanding/shrinking are all words that can be compared to breathing – inhale/exhale. The purpose of breathing is to exchange gasses between air and blood in our lungs as efficiently as we can.
SEPARATION
Despite man having the same basic body structure as other mammals, he is the only one that is perfectly balanced in an upright posture. The foundation for it is the increased role and strength of the buttock muscle. Upright posture...
INTEGRITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
A person without consciousness would be like a robot: perfect in his movement, nor would he make too much or too little movement in unconditional goal orientation. He would feel no emotion and feeling and would be carefully protected...
ENTROPY AND THE MEANING OF PAIN
Entropy (2nd law of thermodynamics) is the decay of a system and chaos. It is a temporal, gravitational, evolutionarily conditioned change from complex to simple. It means a change for the worse, into less order and complexity.
WHAT IS SENSORY-MOTOR AMNESIA?
The AEQ method is an activity expanding the range of volitional consciousness. This is not to be confused with conditioning, which is a bodily procedure imposed upon a subject by external manipulations.
REFLEX PATTERNS
Thomas Hanna recognized and defined three general reflex patterns, which are an adaptation of the body to stress. Anyone can recognize and feel them. But even though they are characteristic for humans, it doesn't...
THE FREEZE RESPONSE
The freeze response occurs upon simultaneous activation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic states of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). This happens when the limbic system detects that neither fight nor flight is appropriate...
CHANGING THE MIND
Conventional approaches toward rectifying mistakes in our body felt as chronic pain, movement limitation, or inefficient movement derive from the body's structure and how muscle and body processes work.
HOW TO IMPROVE THROUGH PROGRESSION
You swing between the old and new, despite knowing, understanding, and feeling that the old doesn't suit you anymore, disturbs you, or even harms you. And despite that, you're still swinging between what once was...
CONTROLLING THE MUSCLES
The main purpose of learning better muscle control is to achieve mastery. Muscle control involves much more than improving the ability to contract them. It includes increasing the ability to relax (expand) muscles, which...