Inside Yourself: A New Way to Health Based on the Alexander Technique

by Louise Morgan, Aldous Huxley (Foreword)

From the dustjacket:

This is the first book about the world-famous Alexander Technique. It explains the actual practice step by step in a simple, factual way which all can follow. The technique is further illuminated by quotations from the diary kept by a young American woman while she was learning the technique from Alexander.

F. Matthias Alexander is comparatively unknown to the general public, though acclaimed by the eminent in Britain and America as one of the outstanding geniuses and benefactors of our time. In his early twenties he made the astounding discovery of the "primary control" in man. This is a complex of muscles, where the head joins the spinal column, which man has lost the use of. The technique revives its rudimentary pattern and develops its use, to the enormous benefit in health and appearance of those who practice the technique....

The technique enables people of all ages to sit, stand, walk, breathe, sleep, speak, work and play with the maximum generation of vital energy and the minimum expenditure of the resources. It also releases hidden talents and powers. There is nothing mystical or mysterious about it, for it is based on physiological and anatomical facts. It has been called "organized common sense" and "a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious."

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1954