Alexander used the term inhibition before it acquired a different definition through Freudian psychology. FM Alexander originated this term to describe the principal idea of how to prevent what he had mistakenly trained himself to do. The founder offered the story about his choice of the word: inhibition is the action an animal hunter might do to strategically choose the exact moment to spring for prey. It involved stopping the urge to instantly and instinctually satisfy its natural hunger by prematurely jumping too soon ineffectively.