When autogenic training is not recommended?

Contraindications in the true sense of autogenic training is not known, as long as the methods learned under the guidance of a medical expert trainer or therapist.

For certain diseases, however, should unconscious body processes are influenced by autogenic training only with extra caution. Thus, not all exercises of autogenic training are both recommended for the treatment of all diseases. Concerned with cardiovascular disorders, epilepsy or a tendency to migraine attacks, for example, should be introduced very carefully to his forehead cool exercise, since this reduces the blood flow to the head. In severe depression without external cause (endogenous depression), severe obsessive-compulsive disorder or severe mental disorders autogenic training is not recommended. With a tendency to hypochondriacal self-observation can worsen the symptoms. Here is also the autogenic training as a therapy to refrain.

Autogenic training leads to unwanted side effects rarely. This may possibly occur in basic mental disorders. It is usually cramping in the abdomen, heart palpitations, trembling, sweating, or pain. Some practitioners experience the haunting relaxed state, especially during the first exercise as a loss of control and thus also as a threat. Affected with a strong need for activity learn autogenic training usually very heavy and more likely to benefit from other relaxation techniques like progressive muscle relaxation