The Importance of Psychophysical Unity

The way you think about yourself or what you're doing can have a very direct and immediate impact on how your body functions at a physical level. What is it that really distinguishes that kind of thing from say a piece of machinery in which several parts directly affect each other, but they are actually parts? That's an excellent question. I would have to default to what Alexander said that he just had to make up a word because we're in such a Cartesian world where we think that there's a duality between mind and body. But on the other hand, he certainly used the term psychophysical in his writings. And I think Alexander teachers like that phrase.