I Introductory
It may be of interest to my readers to know that the method I have founded is the result of a practical and unique experience, for my knowledge was gained—
1. While vainly attempting to eradicate personal, vocal, and respiratory defects by recognised systems.
2. While afterwards putting into practice certain original principles, which enabled me to eradicate these defects.
3. While giving personal demonstrations of the application of these principles from a respiratory, vocal, and health-giving point of view.
I first imparted the method thus evolved to patients recommended by medical men over ten years prior to June, 1904. At that date I introduced it to leading London medical men, who, after investigation, decided that the method was, as one doctor put it, “the most efficient known to (him).”
The method makes for—
In Education:
1. Prevention of certain defects hereinafter referred to.
2. Adequate and correct use of the muscular mechanisms concerned with respiration.
In Re-education:
1. Eradication of certain defects hereinafter referred to.
2. Co-ordination in the use of the muscular mechanisms concerned with respiration.
The result of (2) is not only to make that function efficient, but also to ensure that normal activity and natural massage of the internal organs so necessary to the adequate performance of the vital functions and the preservation of a proper condition of health.
F. Matthias Alexander.