Autogenic training is one of the most powerful techniques ever developed for reducing stress, promoting relaxation and awakening the innate healing power we all possess. With this practical, comprehensive book you can learn for the first time how to practise it yourself. Simple step-by-step instructions explain how to perform a series of easy mental exercises which will help you to achieve deep relaxation in mind and body and make your subconscious receptive to the healing effects of the therapy. You will learn how to: Improve your health and well-being to a dramatic degree Strengthen your immune response to combat illness Increase your energy levels Release your latent creativity Deal with unresolved emotions Cure yourself of phobias and anxieties Improve your ability to concentrate. Autogenic Training: The Effective Holistic Way to Better Health also gives guidance on combining autogenic training with diet, exercise and other therapies for a complete holistic health programme. Dr Kai Kermani has undertaken extensive clinical and spiritual work on Healing and Autogenics. Since 1991 he has devoted his time entirely to Autogenics, making him a leading name in this field of holistic therapy. To learn more, visit his website: http://www.healing-with-doctorkai.com/ Autogenic training can reduce stress, promote relaxation, increase energy levels, release creativity and deal with unresolved emotions. Explaining how to perform a series of mental exercises which can help mind and body to relax and make your body receptive to the healing effects of the therapy. It also gives guidance on combining autogenic training with diet, exercise and other therapies for a complete holistic health programme.

A powerful form of self-help, this method of quick and easy mental exercise can bring about a state of deep relaxation and calming

Discover a scientifically supported method to reduce chronic pain! Autogenic Training: A Mind-Body Approach to the Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndrome is the most comprehensive book ever written on autogenic training and its uses in the treatment of chronic pain, fibromyalgia, CFS, and other chronic conditions. Autogenic training is one of the most well-established, well-researched methods of enhancing the body's natural, self-recuperative mechanisms. It is the only mind-body technique with an origin in sound medical research, and as a result, it benefits from a solid theoretical foundation that explains how and why it works. This unique book effectively combines research, theory, and practice perspectives so that practitioners, instructors, and students can benefit from its content without having to rely on other texts and treatment manuals for clarification and guidance. Autogenic Training: A Mind-Body Approach to the Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndrome is divided into three sections. The first brings you: an exploration of the connection between stress and chronic pain a comprehensive overview of the literature on fibromyalgia scientifically supported stress management techniques The second section: reviews the history of autogenic training discusses the requirements that must be fulfilled for the effective use of autogenic techniques in clinical practice The third section of Autogenic Training: A Mind-Body Approach to the Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndrome consists of a detailed, step-by-step manual for autogenic training. Each “training session” concludes with an actual case presentation that illustrates the use of autogenic training in the treatment of a variety of psychophysiological (mind-body) conditions. This section also features a chapter dedicated to the most commonly asked questions about autogenic training and their answers. In addition to providing excellent reading material for clinical treatment, Autogenic Training: A Mind-Body Approach to the Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndrome can be effectively used as a textbook for teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, nursing, and medicine.

The autogenic psychotherapy in four stages radically upsets the most obvious clichés about autogenic psychotherapy responsible for its downgrading to series B technique, auxiliary to other therapeutic systems.

Using repeated sets of exercises meant to relax and desensitize the mind, autogenic training equips patients to deal with chronic conditions such as anxiety disorders, recurring pain and stress. Patients learn how to gain control over their symptoms and improve coping to reduce suffering. This expanded edition presents practitioners with a concise exploration of autogenic technique and its clinical use for patients, especially in treating those suffering from chronic pain syndrome and disrupted sleep.

Biofeedback training is a research methodology and training procedure through which people can learn voluntary control over their internal physiological systems. It is a merger of mUltiple disciplines with interest deriving from many sources-from basic understanding of psychophysiology to a desire for enhanced self-awareness. The goals of biofeedback are to develop an increased awareness of relevant internal physiological functions, to establish control over these functions, to generalize control from an experimental or clinical setting to everyday life, and to focus attention on mind/body integration. Biofeedback is explored in many different settings. In the university, biofeed back equipment and applications can be found in the departments of experi mental and clinical psychology, counseling, physiology, biology, education, and the theater arts, as well as in the health service (student infirmary). Outside the university, biofeedback may be found in different departments of hospitals (such as physical medicine), private clinics, education and self-awareness groups, psychotherapy practices, and elsewhere. Its growth is still expanding, and excite ment is still rising as a result of biofeedback's demonstration that autonomic functions can be brought under voluntary control and that the long-standing arti ficial separation between mind, body, and consciousness can be disproven.