Balance and Vitality

Something unexpected has happened since I started my AT sessions with Alexis. I've really started to enjoy music.

My first music teacher was this really scary nun, who walked with a cane. If ever you messed up, she would reach over her desk and drag you to the front of the class with her staff, by the neck, for some good old-fashioned public humiliation. My second (and last) music teacher was not a nun, nor did she have a cane. She nevertheless ranked no lower on the bogeyman scale, though her methods were more catty. So all things considered, I forgive myself for not being that big on music. I didn't even realize how much I had missed it.

During AT sessions we don't do anything remotely musical (thank god). It really is mostly sitting, standing, and lying down. Okay, I also talk my head off so it could be like therapy in that way, but I've always done that with very little benefit.

That is the toughest thing to explain about AT. The sessions are really simple and can seem rootless for a goal-oriented person, which I think most people are nowadays. You sit and stand and lie down, you leave feeling relaxed and a bit taller, but then you notice random changes when you least expect it.