Eve Bernfeld
Creating a Daily Alexander Technique Practice
As we strive to change the world, is it selfish to work on ourselves? Or is it the only way?
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
How Do We Make Meaning in Difficult Times?
Playing with arithmetic today, I figure I’ve taken over 200 walks in the last 13 weeks since I’ve been staying at home. Yesterday I baked...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Apr 12, 2020
- 3 min
Working on Myself
My 95-year-old Grannie says she’s under house arrest. No, no, everyone assures her, she’s in protective custody. How are you doing in...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Tangled
I propose we spend a few minutes every day taking some time to PAUSE. Taking some time to reorganize ourselves.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Mar 8, 2020
- 3 min
Is NO a Four-Letter Word? Part 1: Ado Annie
I thanked the word NO, for giving me this much-needed solitude.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Feb 6, 2020
- 3 min
Fun With the Scientific Method
Asking the right questions might be most life-affirming favor we can do for someone. Or for ourselves.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jan 8, 2020
- 2 min
It's the HOW
My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
If You're Not Scared...
“If I’m not scared, I’m not doing enough,” Mary told me. This was her attitude toward life. She was a jazz singer I took lessons with...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Dec 2, 2019
- 2 min
Stormy Weather
Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Nov 12, 2019
- 2 min
Self-Portrait
What if we were to expand our idea of ourselves to include the WHOLE THING?
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 31, 2019
- 2 min
My Self-Care Today
To do one thing at a time is so unusual in our culture that we may feel sheepish doing it. It’s downright counter-cultural. It’s radical.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 23, 2019
- 2 min
Fun with Numbers
$100,000,000,000 – Estimated Total Cost (per year) associated with Back Pain in the US (as of 2009). 31,000,000 – Number of Americans...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
The Crux
Saying NO to the million tiny habits of body and mind that contribute to feeling diminished, to feeling like I can’t go on.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Sep 11, 2019
- 2 min
Pause Now, Thank Me Later
I kept catching myself lifting my shoulders, hunching toward my paper and holding my breath. Old habits die hard.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
Schooled
Sometimes the most “productive” thing to do is nothing. Productive of renewed energy, refreshed thinking, rediscovered enthusiasm.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jul 11, 2019
- 3 min
No Complaining!
When I was little, my mother put a piece of paper on the fridge with a magnet. On the paper she had written “NO COMPLAINING!” That...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jun 2, 2019
- 3 min
How to Improve Your Child's Posture
Hunching over or puffing up are not benign, but are instead powerful information about what is happening inside our children (and ourselves)
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Eve Bernfeld
- May 15, 2019
- 2 min
Still, Not Stiff
I’m a big fan of movement. But sometimes this moving-to-try-not-to-be-stiff is counter-productive.
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Eve Bernfeld
- May 6, 2019
- 3 min
Weekend Warrior
“I’m so mad at my body!” my student reported to me on Monday morning. I imagine many of us have felt this way.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Apr 23, 2019
- 4 min
Ready List
What a revelation to be in the city and to See it, Breathe, and not make myself small. To be present in a way I never was in my 20s.
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