The post discusses how individual awareness influences societal choices and the essential role of activists in expanding this awareness to drive change.
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Michael Ashcroft runs Expanding Awareness, a website that explores Alexander Technique and its intersections. Alexander Technique is an awareness-based skill that helps people live with greater ease and freedom by noticing, expanding, and playing within the space between stimulus and response. The technique has a wide range of applications, commonly associated with physical performance.
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