autogenic

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autogenic training
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goals for the first evening

• to get an overview of the whole course relate
  it to your own personal goals
• to be clear about the specific practice you are
  to work on for the rest of the week
• to understand the relaxation response
  broaden build models of calming skills

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your personal goals

• what are your personal goals for this course -
  how will you know if youve attained them?
• what do you think are the main personal obstacles
  to achieving your goals?
• how do you reckon you can best tackle these
  personal obstacles?

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assumptions rules of the journey

• skills learning
• active involvement
• support
• confidentiality

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main components of the journey

• specific training in calming skills
• knowledge, facts, underlying research
• time to think, review and discuss
• sideways glances at other relevant fields

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autogenic (self-generated) training
background developed by Dr Johannes Schultz, a
Berlin based neurologist and psychiatrist, in
the early 1900s from interviews with good
hypnotic subjects.
major aim to develop a method that went beyond
the passivity dependence so often found in
hypnosis. To hand the power and control back
from therapist to subject - hence auto-genic
or self-generated.
a typical exercise first scan the body from
feet to head checking for any obvious areas of
tension then go through the specific autogenic
focuses then cancel.
Luthe W Schultz JH Autogenic Therapy Volume
I, Autogenic Methods New York Grune Stratton,
1969