11 January

Maybe this is the greatest illusion we live under. ‘The body’. When you use a straw, it really does feel like you’re ‘sucking’ that liquid up the straw. But you’re not, the Earth’s atmosphere is pushing it up the straw. Whether it’s walking, sitting, breathing, standing, lifting, getting fit - we don’t do any of these things with our ‘bodies’. All of them are relationships between our bodies and the planet. This is the reason I disagree so often with doctors, exercise experts and bodywork people, like Alexander Technique.