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  Training - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge and relates to specific useful skills.
Training and Development is the field concerned with workplace learning to improve performance.
In military use, training means gaining the physical ability to perform and survive in combat, and learning the many skills needed in a time of war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Training   (397 words)

  
 Autogenic training - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Autogenic training is a term for a relaxation technique developed by the German psychiatrist Johannes Schultz first published in 1932.
It usually involves a series of sessions in which the patients learn to relax their limbs, heart, and breathing.
However, unlike some forms of yoga and meditation, autogenic training is devoid of any mysticism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autogenic_training   (174 words)

  
 Autogenic Training
Autogenic Training is a powerful mind-body technique, which is used to help people to reach deep levels of relaxation and thereby tap into the healing powers of the body.
Autogenic Training is a form of self-hypnosis, and it consists of a series of visualisation exercises, in which one focuses on some part of the body, e.g.
Other elements of Autogenic Training include focusing on the heartbeat and breathing and the use of positive affirmations, such as "I am confident and creative." A primary purpose of the training is to bring the mind into an optimum mental state, described as 'passive concentration'.
www.jwelford.demon.co.uk /brainwaremap/autogen.html   (350 words)

  
 Coloring Therapy - Autogenic Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Autogenic, which means "self-regulation or -generation," refers to the way in which your mind can influence your body to balance the self-regulative systems that control circulation, breathing, heart rate, and so on.
Autogenic training is based on the notion of passive concentration: that is, you try to achieve your goal of relaxation by not working actively to do so (as in progressive relaxation).
While autogenic training is effective in reducing stress, tension, and anxiety, it is not recommended for people with severe mental disorders.
www.coloringtherapy.com /autogenic_training.htm   (991 words)

  
 Autogenic Training - European Relaxation Technique
Autogenic training is a century-old European method for achieving relaxation based upon passive concentration and body awareness of specific sensations.
His "Autogenic Therapy", published in 1932, is the definitive account of autogenic training and includes descriptions of the six autogenic states used in autogenic therapy today.
Autogenic training has become an accepted adjuvant therapy to the extent that it may be covered by health insurance in Germany and is available through the British NHS in some areas.
www.prplastic.com /autogenic_training.htm   (684 words)

  
 Autogenic training
Autogenic training is also known as "yoga of the West", the procedure involves repeating a series of stock phrases, thereby inducing a meditative state of complete relaxation.
Scientific studies have been demonstrated that when autogenic training is done properly and is practiced on a regular basis, it has a beneficial effect on the autonomic nervous system and thus on all the organs of the body.
Autogenic training is also an ideal method of relaxation for those with test anxiety.
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 Autogenic Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Autogenic training is a relaxation method in which relaxation is achieved by concentration.
Autogenic training is also supposed to allow more fundamental effects on the personality through inner reflection and self-discovery.
Autogenic training is based on several standard exercises which are done with the eyes closed lying down or sitting in as relaxed a position as possible (simple sitting position).
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 Autogenic Training Therapy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Autogenic Training (AT) is a self-help method that brings about relaxation and helps relieve stress.
The core of AT is a training course during which clients learn a series of simple exercises in body awareness and relaxation designed to switch off the stress-related fight and flight system of the body and switch on the rest, relaxation and recreation system.
During training the client has the opportunity to learn and experience passive concentration, a state of alert but detached awareness which enables the trainee to break through the vicious circle of excessive stress, whatever its origins.
britishregister.tripod.com /autogenic   (343 words)

  
 Practice self-regulation- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Autogenic training is a European method of relaxation based upon passive concentration and body awareness of specific sensations.
Though autogenic training is effectively used for reducing stress it is contra-indicated for person’s suffering from diabetes, hypoglycemia, heart conditions, and high or low blood pressure.
Autogenic, which means ‘self-regulation or generation,’ refers to the way in which your mind can influence your body to balance the self-regulative systems that control circulation, breathing, heart rate, and so on.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-403461,prtpage-1.cms   (234 words)

  
 Autogenic Training (the child of Hypnotherapy)
He trained patients to go into an self induced hypnotic state of mental exercises designed to turn off the stressful “flight-fight” mechanism – the part of our nervous system that is most often associated with stress response.
Autogenic Training is derived from the Greek word (auto=self and genus, which means ‘originated’ = genes = training of the genes) the name implies the physical and mental relaxation.
Many of the controlled medical trials on autogenics have established that it can be of great benefit to many of the commonly acknowledged stress-related diseases, such as phobias, anxiety, high blood-pressure, migraines, insomnia, muscle tension, hyperventilation and pain.
www.infinityinst.com /articles/autogenic.html   (656 words)

  
 Positive Health Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Four treatment variables had a bearing upon outcome: 1) Practising the second standard autogenic training exercise was a satisfactory predictor of better outcome; 2) practising generalisation training was a useful predictor; 3) The use of other behavioural treatment techniques was positively associated with outcome; 4) Longer treatment periods were associated with improved outcome.
Autogenic training may be of significant benefit in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
This study was not controlled in any of its elements – type of autogenic training; length of autogenic training; combination with other techniques.
www.positivehealth.com /research.asp?i=1018   (268 words)

  
 Autogenic training for hypertension
Autogenic training is a kind of relaxation technique which involves passive concentration and psychophysiological stimuli.
Inclusion criteria were published or unpublished trial which assessed autogenic training in the treatment of hypertension.
One compared autogenic training with placebo (packaged like Atenolol) over eight months and found a significant reduction in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, but only six patients were practising autogenic training at the eight month assessment.
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/booth/alternat/AT057.html   (417 words)

  
 Training at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In meteorology, training is when a successive series of showers or thunderstorms moves repeatedly over the same area, usually causing some form of flooding, especially flash floods.
It is named so because this is similar to the way train cars move down a track in a line, over and over the same point, without the track moving.
Also, in an archaic sense, it means to get on trains to transfer from one area of a continent to another (the term was used this way mainly in the American Civil War).
wiki.tatet.ru /en/Training.html   (398 words)

  
 Autogenics -- A self-help training schedule
The purpose of this training is to learn how to communicate with your body so as to take personal responsibility for your life.
Autogenics can be helpful in changing unwanted behavior because you can use your autogenics skills to work through each of the three basic steps of change by actually feeling the elements of each step with the help of autogenic visualization and suggestion.
But if you successfully complete the autogenics training, all the statements below are honest and humble reflections of the discipline, patience, and respect for your body that the training requires.
www.guidetopsychology.com /autogen.htm   (2589 words)

  
 What is autogenic training?
The first stage of the autogenic process is composed of a series of six ‘exercises’ to be progressively learned and carried out three or four times each week.
The basic idea of the training program, devised by Johannes Shultz in the 1930s, is that the body should follow the dictates of the mind.
There is also the danger that a person may see autogenic training as a cure-all and neglect needed medical attention.
mama.essortment.com /autogenictrai_rqoz.htm   (493 words)

  
 Autogenic Training - Quest Diagnostics Patient Health Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Autogenic training (AT) is a technique that teaches your body to respond to your verbal commands.
Autogenic training consists of six standard exercises that make the body feel warm, heavy, and relaxed.
Without regular practice, autogenic training is not likely to have an effect.
www.questdiagnostics.com /kbase/topic/special/ta7045spec/sec1.htm   (640 words)

  
 Orgs for Autogenic Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The British Autogenic Society is a charitable organisation whose purpose is to promote the use of Autogenic Therapy, maintain adequate professional training standards, and encourage research into AT and its diverse applications across the mind / body spectrum.
The core of Autogenic Therapy is a training course during which clients learn simple mental exercises allowing them to enter deep states of relaxation and experience relief from the negative effects of stress.
In the last training session the therapist will discuss the way in which additional, personal formulae and exercises can be designed to meet specific needs.
britishregister.tripod.com /autogenic/id8.html   (772 words)

  
 Motivation - The Power of Autogenic Relaxation Article - The Mills Group
Autogenic training is one of the most effective ways of achieving a physically relaxed and mentally alert state.
Autogenics consist of a series of easy mental exercises designed to switch off the stress "flight or fight" response of the body and induce deep relaxation.
We were so impressed by these results we now use the Canadian Institute of Stress autogenic relaxation tape script compiled and narrated by the head of the institute Dr Richard Earle, Phd, to help train clients to relax and improve their mental toughness.
www.millsonline.com /motivation_relaxation.asp   (311 words)

  
 Vernon Coleman - Autogenic Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Autogenic training is a treatment programme designed to help patients who are suffering from symptoms produced by over-exposure to stress.
Autogenic training is no better, and probably no worse, than any other form of relaxation therapy.
I believe that the useful effects that are undoubtedly associated with its use are due not to the ‘magic’ of the incantations or to the skills of the practitioner involved but to the body’s innate capacity for self-healing.
www.vernoncoleman.com /auto.htm   (288 words)

  
 A Free Course in Autogenic Training
In Europe, Autogenic Training is taught mostly in doctors' offices, in hospitals, and in universities.
Persons who have mastered Autogenic Training with the help of the orgone generator are familiar with methods of rapid induction of the Autogenic state.
Autogenic Training can be a significant help in easing, even dissolving, the armoring of a person, especially when supported by an orgone (chi) generator.
www.orgon.org /italiano/autogenic   (2788 words)

  
 Ames Autogenic-Feedback Training System
Autogenic-Feedback Training Exercise (AFTE): A six-hour training program which is a highly efficient and effective method of enabling people to control voluntarily several of their own physiological responses to a variety of environmental stressors.
The training is also useful for alleviating low blood pressure in patients with diabetes, spinal cord lesions, or generalized somatic paralysis.
Training can be used to modify central nervous system activity in the treatment of neuropathological disorders such as epilepsy, Attention Deficit Disorder, and mild head trauma.
www.zyn.com /flcfw/fwtproj/AmesAuto.html   (616 words)

  
 Practitioner list for Autogenic training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
She is also a trained spiritual director and retreat leader, a consultant and trainer in cross cultural communication and mediation.
He holds Dip.AT (Diploma in Autogenic Training), he is a member of the British Autogenic Society, and of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.
She is a lecturer for the British Autogenic Society, and for the Faculty of Homeopathy, and is a Senior Clinician at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
britishregister.tripod.com /autogenic/id9.html   (1106 words)

  
 Men's Fitness: Relaxation on demand - stress management advice from the book 'Autogenic Training: A Clinical Guide' by ...
Autogenics, a word meaning "self-generated," is derived from research conducted in the late 1800s by Oskar Vogt, a German scientist who investigated brain physiology.
Typically, autogenics training consists of weekly sessions of 60 to 90 minutes for about eight weeks, although it varies with different teachers.
Even though autogenics is a complex system, the most important parts for simple stress reduction involve six verbal commands targeted at relevant parts of the body.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1608/is_n10_v14/ai_21148333   (1281 words)

  
 The Ghost in the Box - Chapter 4
Trained to criterion on EMG forehead (1 RMS microvolt) and 95°F. on hands with temperature feedback, 5 to 7 relaxation techniques were taught for home practice e.g.
Biofeedback training studies that are successful in the treatment of Raynaud's disease, train patients to deep levels of relaxation and hand warming, and, to mastery during cold stressors.
When biofeedback training is used in clinical settings, in which it is properly understood, the maximum potential of the tool, and the maximum potential of the trainee, are demonstrated.
www.incontinet.com /ghost4.htm   (6281 words)

  
 Autogenics Relaxation Exercise
Though the report didn’t mention the effect of autogenic training on the development of cancer directly, the results indicated that those practicing Autogenic Training (A.T.) demonstrated a significant reduction in anxiety toward their cancer.
After regular practice of autogenic training, there was a significant drop in the frequency and the severity of the post-traumatic nightmares and they ceased all together by the end of the treatment.
Autogenic training and future oriented hypnotic imagery in the treatment of tension headache: Outcome and process.
home.earthlink.net /~griesinger/zzm_autogenicschapter.htm   (3967 words)

  
 bionomic autogenic psychotherapy specialisation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Iohann Heinrich Schultz (1887-1970), most famous for the elaboration of his best-known technique, Autogenic Training, developed his psychotherapeutic method calling it "bionomic psychotherapy" (from "bios", life and "nomos", law) to emphasize the importance of the way that psychotherapy is constrained by the laws of life.
The publication of "Autogenic Training" however was very widespread; it was translated into many languages and was hugely successful all over the world.
For this purpose the course is made up of 2200 hours of training spread over the course of four years and over the following areas: theoretical-clinical training in basic psychology and psychotherapy, theoretical-clinical training in autogenic psychotherapy, practical training, personal training and practical-clinical vocational training.
www.formist.it /en/bionomic_autogenic_psychotherapy_specialisation.html   (1835 words)

  
 Autogenic training - Complementary Health and Alternative Medicine
Autogenic Training is a form of self hypnosis that aims to induce a state of relaxation and wellbeing, and to utilize the body's own healing power.
Autogenic Training is taught one to one, or in groups of 6 - 8, over a period of 8 weeks.
The aim of the technique is to induce a balance between the two hemispheres of the brain, as well as between the two branches - sympathetic and parasympathetic - of the autonomic nervous system.
www.chisuk.org.uk /bodymind/whatis/autogenic.php   (277 words)

  
 Autogenic Training - Meditation Technique
A pilot randomized trial assessing the effects of autogenic training in early stage cancer patients in relation to psychological status and immune system responses
Autogenic training (AT) is a type of meditation usually used for reducing stress.
At the beginning and end of the 2 monthly periods, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and T and B cell markers were measured to give an indication of changes in immune system responses and measurement of anxiety and depression.
www.annieappleseedproject.org /auttrainmedt.html   (267 words)

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