Work my way up along the spine & free my neck
From the bottom of my spine, I gradually work my way up. What I do, and how I do this, I cannot really explain this in words, but I'll give it a try. Sometimes, when I'm not that agitated, it's actually really easy, I just send a little flow upwards, and *dzjoing* my head flies away.

Most of the time, it doesn't work that fast. In those cases I have a number of approaches that work for me:
1) think of small pulses that travel up through my spine. Each time I send one off, I think of it travelling through the individual discs in my spinal column- not because I want to have an anatomically correct approach or something like that, but just to slow me down. Rather like a flight of stairs: rather than standing at the bottom and looking to the top, I consider each step I need to make to get there. I find that this helps me to actually focus on the task at hand, rather than flying all the way back up in my head again and think about directing, rather than directing.

2) think of the bottom of my spine and the top of my spine - nothing in between. What happens in between is up to my own body; I don't want to interfere with that. Sometimes, this results in spontaneous movement or release of parts of my body; especially my arm sometimes just shoots off on its own.

3) think of a finger or hand brushing up along my body, all the way from my feet to my head; starting with small strokes, ending in one continuous stroke. This thought, too, helps me to come out of my head and into my body.

What I try to avoid, is to repeat any of the words or phrases that I learnt during lessons, because I noticed that they trigger lots of intellectual activity and questions about AT theory. I do ask myself other questions, like 'Where is the top of my spine?', 'What is it that I'm doing now?', 'What does it mean to really let the neck be free?', 'Am I really letting, or am I doing something?'

After a while, these questions kind of start asking themselves within my body, rather than me formulating them in my head. Actually, after a while, it's like my body takes over the thinking, rather than my head. Instead of trying to visualise, say, my arm with my brains, my arm can address itself without my interference.

About freeing the neck: this is the part that I find most difficult to describe, and also the most difficult to put into practise. I try to go about very gently, indirectly, almost sneaky, because if I directly address this point, I stiffen almost instantly.

One idea that does work well for me, is the idea of the head floating on the top of the spine, like one of these compasses where you have a little ball in a small dome of water. It's completely free, but will alway incline towards one specific direction. Another idea that also helps is to imagine allowing my AT teacher (or anybody else for that matter) to take your head anywhere, without meeting any help or resistance from my part.