Effect

Autogenic training has the following effect:

* The muscle tension is reduced,
* The heart rate is reduced,
* The blood vessels to widen, thus increasing the blood flow rate,
* Respiratory rate is reduced,
* The bowel is stimulated.



Practitioners give the outside world during autogenic training and focus less attention on their inner, mental states. You are as it were in a state of self-absorption. In addition, the perception thresholds to be increased in the sensory organs. This can, for example, used in pain therapy, as autogenic training alleviate the increase of pain threshold, or even eliminate the pain.

The first auto suggestive triggered (that is aware of the practitioners self-induced) vegetative reactions of the body within a few weeks into the regular practice internalized. Then, if an appropriate exercise Stance, they enter an accelerated. This allows the practitioner to achieve within a few seconds to minutes a sinking state of their consciousness, they can always interrupt again.

After the autogenic training is learned, it is important to perform the exercises regularly. Some underlying medical conditions, such as an anxiety disorder, the therapeutic successes may not occur until after a few weeks or several months.