Life is relationship and Alexander’s ‘technique’ is, first and foremost, an exploration into the relationship we all have with ourselves and with everything else. He called this unifying aspect of ourselves, the ‘self’. It is this self – body, mind and spirit that ‘reacts’. Learning how to maximise this relationship – whatever that means to you – is to learn about the essential principle of the Alexander Technique, that ‘Use affects functioning’. In other words, how we use our power of choice affects how well we live and how we fulfill our potential