Inhibition as primary direction

This again, really means that in the application of my technique the process of inhibition, that is, the act of refusing to respond to the primary desire to gain an "end" becomes the act of responding (volitionary act) to the conscious reasoned desire to employ the means whereby that end may be gained.
The stimulus to inhibit, therefore, in this case comes from within, and the process of inhibition is not forced upon the pupil. This means that the pupil's desire or desires will be satisfied, not thwarted, and that there will be present desirable emotional and other psycho-physical conditions which do not make for what is known as suppression in any form.

Some more aphorisms:

Pedro de Alcantara :

Alexander teachers talk often enough of misuse and inhibition. But they tend to forget that what causes misuse is end-gaining; indeed, it's our universal habit of end-gaining that ought to be inhibited, not the misuse that's but a consequence of end-gaining.


Roger Sperry (a famous neurologist):

The entire output of our thinking system goes into the motor system.