Now, it was Alexander’s specific and very important contribution to recognise that in order to have integration in the individual, we’ve got to have balance – we’ve got to have poise. In our terms, we’ve got to go up – we mustn’t pull down. Pulling down upsets poise, upsets balance, and therefore disintegrates. Pulling down causes disintegration. You can’t do something to integrate – the mechanism of integration is there already but you’ve got to allow the mechanism of integration to work and you’ve got to ensure that the mechanism of integration is not interfered with. So that’s the primary objective, that’s what Alexander called the primary control – the process of ensuring that the integration is working, that we are whole in the truly practical sense and in every detail.
Walter Carrington (From a talk given on George Coghill, Integration, and Total and Partial Patterns)