Скачать или смотреть 🎙️ Awareness. Habits. Nervous System Intelligence: Neuro & Biofeedback & Alexander Technique

What if lasting change doesn’t start with effort — but with awareness?
In this new BrainyHeart episode, I speak with Petra Pachaly, an Alexander Technique teacher and former biofeedback client.

We explore posture, perception, habit formation — and why real transformation always involves the nervous system.

What Is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is not fitness.
Not therapy.
Not “sit up straight.”
It is a training in awareness and conscious inhibition.

It helps you notice:
How you hold your head and spine
Where you create unnecessary tension
How you move, speak, breathe
Which patterns run automatically
It is about pausing before reacting.
Not correcting.
Not forcing.
But noticing — and choosing differently.

Awareness Changes Everything!

One key insight from our conversation:
You cannot change what you are not aware of.
Most people live in subtle, chronic tension.
Not because they want to — but because their nervous system has learned it.

The Alexander Technique works with:
refined body awareness
minimal guidance
interrupting automatic responses
rebuilding coordination from the inside out
This is neuroplasticity in everyday life.

Where Bio- & Neurofeedback Come In
Here’s where it gets powerful.
While the Alexander Technique strengthens subjective awareness, bio- and neurofeedback provide objective feedback.

They show:
Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Muscle tension (EMG)
Brainwave activity (EEG)
Real-time stress responses!

Instead of “I think I’m relaxed,” you see what your nervous system is actually doing. Bio- and neurofeedback support habit formation because:
Habits are physiologically encoded
Stress patterns are measurable
Self-regulation can be trained
New neural pathways require repetition

Awareness + measurable feedback = accelerated change.

Habits Are Neural Loops — Not Personality Traits

When we : pause, observe, regulate, choose differently
… we create new neural pathways.

That is where the Alexander Technique and bio/neurofeedback meet:
Awareness.
Regulation.
Repetition.
Integration.
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To wrap it up : Why you should 🎧 Tune In to this BrainyHeart episode:

Why posture is not about discipline
How chronic tension develops
Why many “physical issues” are regulation patterns
What Petra learned through biofeedback
How awareness becomes embodied intelligence

This is not a background-noise interview.
It is one that slows you down.
And maybe changes the way you sit, breathe — and respond.

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