Reddit reviews A Pilates' Primer : The Millennium Edition

I just thought of another book to recommend: Joanna Field's A Life of One's Own. I thought of it because you offered a trick to draw a straight line: focusing your mind and eye on the destination and letting the unconscious take care of the details (which is what brought Wilson's book to mind). Field describes a variety of such tricks to get the mind to engage in certain ways: mental dodges that result in a change in engagement. Difficult to describe in general terms, but you'll see what I mean.

Joseph Pilates writes in the introduction to A Pilates Primer: The Millennium Edition (in the florid style of his generation) of how "Contrology", which was his name for the discipline, gives a person control over his/her muscles and body. To gain that control, the brain develops new synapses and pathways. I talk about it some in this post, but for more you can browse through my various Pilates posts. Those provide a record over time of what I noted about Pilates.