What Mr. Alexander does with people I have already hinted at in what I have said about our having a new profession in America--the profession of being a lawyer backward. Of course Mr. Alexander could not say of himself that he was in the profession of being a lawyer backward, but he does practically the same thing in his field that a lawyer backward would do. He makes it his business to change people's minds for them instead of petting their minds and he does the precise thing I have in mine except that he confines himself in doing it to what he calls psycho-mechanics--to a single first relation in which a man's mind needs to be changed--the relation of a man's mind to his body. If a man's mind gets his body right, it will not need to be changed about many other things in which it is wrong. The first thing a man's mind should be changed about usually is his body. This is the principle upon which Mathias Alexander in the very extraordinary work he is doing in London, proceeds. When you are duly accepted as a client and have duly given credentials or shown signs that you want all the truth about yourself that you can get no matter how it hurts, or how it looks, you present yourself at the appointed time in Alexander's office, or studio, or laboratory, or operating room--whatever the name may be you will feel like calling it by, before you are finished, and Alexander stands you up before the back of a chair. Then he takes you in his hands--his very powerful, sensitive and discerning hands and begins--quite literally begins reshaping you like Phidias. You begin to feel him doing you off as if you were going to be some new beautiful living statue yourself before very long probably. Then he stands off from you a minute, takes a long deep critical gaze at you--just as Phidias would, studies the poise and the stresses of your body, X-rays down through you with a look--through you and all your inner workings from the top of your head to the soles of your feet.