Alexander Technique is an educational discipline practiced to prevent the physical decline caused by habituated mannerisms. Learning it can lead the way to improved sensory discrimination, a greater awareness of body, mind and the connection between the two, along with ease of movement. Additionally, practioners often report that it gives them an enhanced ability to clarify their thinking. The medium of study is one's own sense of kinesthesia or proprioception, which is the sense used to internally calibrate one's own bodily location, weight and to judge the effort necessary for moving. The founder's original intent was to apply the scientific method to more completely carry intention into action. His objective was to make experimentation and training deliberately repeatable, and to learn in a way that would allow continuing improvement.