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Thanks, it gets interesting! On Primary Control: any reasons why not call this simply spine ? Also, my experience is that on a very amateur level this does not work, but on an advanced, expert level of course still may. Still for example when I was going to weight lifting gyms, I was trying to correct my posture by strengthening back muscles, such as low trapezius with face pulls. It never worked. I also tried consciously improving posture like imagining I am hanging from thread connected to the top of my head. Did not work. If I was not paying attention for sec, snapped back. But when I do something that makes me proud, I am automatically standing up very erect, stand tall, in good posture! Or when I am happy. So to me on the amateur level it seems you can fix posture by fixing mood or emotions but you cannot fix mood or emotions by fixing posture. Can you given me a bit of an explanation why does this nevertheless work on the professional level? Why do you have success with fixing emotions with posture instead of the other way around? Why don't you do the other way around like instead of telling people to move the chin 3cm back (this is how I imagine it) telling people to e.g. "visualize you just won a prize and everybody is clapping" ?

The question is whether there's good recent literature on the topic. Is there more recent writing than Alexander's that's good?