This is a living glossary of terms I use regularly and that I consider important to understand.

My intention here is not to map all Alexander Technique jargon, but to build out the core components of my own view of things and, in particular, how they relate to concepts and terms from other traditions.

• Alexander Technique:
• Aliveness:
• Attention: The narrow spotlight that you move from object to object both inside and outside of you.
• Awareness: The wide open field of things you are able to notice, and which contains and constraints attention. Awareness can contract and expand, but its natural state is spacious.
• Consciousness:
• Consent:
• Couldness: a moment by moment knowing that you could let go of your present intention and instead do, say, think or feel anything else. Inhibition leads to couldness. Related to un-fixation.
• End-gaining:
• Faulty Sensory Appreciation: The misinterpretation of sensory information leading to incorrect conclusions about the way things are. For example, feeling as if you standing upright, when you're actually leaning forwards.
• F.M. Alexander:
• Fixation (and un-fixation):
• Getting ready:
• Habit:
• Inhibition: The skill of noticing habitual getting ready responses to stimuli and putting them down so that you can make new choices.
• Intention:
• Means-whereby: Putting more importance on how you do things than what outcomes want to achieve, which leads to an enhanced, more natural quality of functioning.
• Naturalness:
• Non-doing:
• Presence:
• Psychophysical Unity: The idea that mind and body are one continuous process, rather than two separate things that are connected to each other. Thinking and moving are both psychophysical actions. A modern-day habit is to split these, so one goal of Alexander Technique is to restore psychophysical unity. The term 'bodymind' is often used in other traditions to point to this.
• Tunnel vision: A strong contraction of awareness on an object that's relevant to a strongly-held goal. This contraction constrains attention to the extent that it's difficult or impossible to release it and attend to something else. See: Don't crash into the tree!