Frederick Matthias Alexander était un acteur australien qui a développé le processus éducatif aujourd'hui connu sous le nom de Technique Alexander. Cette forme d'éducation est appliquée pour reconnaître et surmonter les limitations réactives et habituelles dans le mouvement et la pensée. La Technique Alexander aide les individus à atteindre une plus grande liberté et efficacité dans leurs actions et leurs perceptions. Ses principes trouvent une application dans un large éventail d'activités, des arts aux tâches quotidiennes.
"Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual," F. M. Alexander's second book, expands on his first work, arguing that our actions are often driven by feelings rather than reason. It offers practical methods for regaining conscious control over movements and thoughts, emphasizing sensory appreciation in various contexts like education and happiness.
Whoever hesitates to utter that which he thinks the highest truth, lest it should be too much m advance of the time, may reassure himself by looking at his act DEGREES from an impersonal point of view. . . . It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past he is a parent of the future; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die. Herbert S