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section 5 of constructive conscious control of the individual by f matthias alexander this liberal acts recording is in the public domain part 1 continued consideration of the mechanism of the human psychophysical organism in relation to the activities called learning and learning to do the foregoing will serve to indicate that in the sphere of learning something or learning to do something as indeed in connection with all psychophysical acts there is an important problem to be solved if we are to progress to that standard of psychophysical functioning and use which will enable us to meet satisfactorily the ever-increasing demands of an advancing civilization since as we have seen the standard of functioning in the performance of any psychophysical act depends upon the conception which influences the direction and control of the mechanisms involved it is most essential to give consideration to this all-important matter of conception in connection with the understanding of what we wish to learn or learn to do and also in connection with that psychophysical activity by means of which we are enabled to arrive at our conceptions concerned with learning and learning to do we will therefore go on to consider the mechanisms of the psychophysical organism in relation to the activity called learning something first for every form of psychophysical activity there must be a stimulus in considering the response to this stimulus i would remind my readers that i do not separate mental and physical operations manifestations in my conception of the manner means whereby of the functioning of the human organism for how can we prove that the response to any stimulus is wholly physical or holy mental on the one hand in what would ordinarily be considered purely physical spheres the performance of physical acts the standard of functioning depends one upon the degree of correctness of the conception of the act to be performed and two upon the degree of coordinated employment of the guiding and controlling orders or directions and of the mechanisms involved in carrying out the activities essential to the correct means whereby the act can be performed on the other hand in what would ordinarily be considered purely mental spheres the standard of functioning depends one upon the degree of reliability of the sensory guidance and direction in the use of the mechanisms involved in conveying the stimuli primarily responsible for the psychophysical processes concerned with conception and 2 upon the standard of coordination reached in the use of the whole organism if the highest standard of the so-called physical functioning is to be reached there must be coordinated employments of the muscular system through coordinated guidance direction and control by processes so-called mental involving action and reaction in psychophysical unity and an adequate standard at all times of the vital functioning of the organism in the same way as i'm prepared to demonstrate later if the highest standard of the so-called mental functioning is to be reached there must be coordinated employment of those processes which are involved in the coordinated use of the so-called physical self involving action and reaction in psychophysical unity an inadequate standard at all times of the vital functioning of the organism footnote we are all aware for instance that a sluggish liver does not make for the best use of the mental powers and we know of people who through bad habits of overindulgence have reached a stage of liver or kidney disorder when their reasoning processes have become seriously impaired and those of remembering practically ruined if the vital functioning of the physical mechanisms and organs is for any reasons inadequate the organism as a whole becomes gradually more or less poisoned...