Regarding the first article, “Posture: The Great Big Rump”, I must say that I’m a little skeptical. Part of me wants to believe it. It’s appealing to think that you can change your posture by changing your awareness and focus. But I feel the need to ask – does attention even work like that? Are there psychological studies backing this up? How did the author develop this theory? What about people with attention-related disorders? Does this method work for them too? I don’t mean to be rude about it, but I feel like I need some more concrete evidence before following what the author is saying.
As skeptical as I am of the first article, the second one, “By Intention Alone”, makes more sense to me. It might be because my studio teacher brought up something similar a couple of weeks ago. I was having trouble getting a melody to shape the way I heard it in my head, so my teacher asked me to play it the way I would if I were demonstrating it to my students. To my surprise, it worked out just like I wanted it to. She told me the difference was in my intention – when I was practicing, I was getting too caught up in the details, but when I was demonstrating, I was thinking “I want it to sound like this”, so my body just did it. I’d love to know about exactly why that happens, but for now I’ll just accept that it works regardless of my understanding.
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