In all our activities, we tend to pull our heads back and contract or shorten ourselves. We give ourselves an order or direction to do a certain thing, and then we fight against ourselves in doing it. Whereas the head naturally wants to go forward and up and the back to lengthen and widen. That’s all there is to it. But it works. Whatever we may think about it, there it is!
F.M. Alexander as recounted by Goddard Binkley (Taken from “The Expanding Self” p42)