The Alexander Technique might be defined as a method for knowing simultaneously what you are not doing, as well as what you are doing – knowing, for example, that you are not interfering with the “primary control” while you are talking, listening or thinking…
The Technique is not a treatment; it is a discipline that, to be effective, has to be applied in the activities of daily life. The reward is an increase in competence and self-esteem and in the sensory satisfaction that accompanies self-knowledge and self-control.
Frank Pierce Jones (“Freedom to Change” – Chapter 14 p158)