{"id":1652,"date":"2021-08-06T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T22:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2021-08-06T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:34:48","slug":"autogenics-i-figured-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/autogenics-i-figured-it-out.php","title":{"rendered":"Autogenics &#8211; I figured it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/autogenics-i-figured-it-out.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1659\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/150_Autogenes_Training-1-357x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1659\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/150_Autogenes_Training-1-357x500.jpg 357w, http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/150_Autogenes_Training-1.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concentrative Self Relaxation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Autogenic training is my favorite form of meditation. Its like a cross between the relaxation response &#038; deep hypnosis.<\/p>\n<p>The original text books by Shultz are available on Internet Archive.<\/p>\n<p>The training consists of the relaxation exercises and more advanced meditation exercises that open up your minds eye very vividly.<\/p>\n<p>Many people only ever do the basic exercises which is like learning to drive but never actually doing it again.<\/p>\n<p>Others get stuck &#038; cant progress beyond without months &#038; months of practice everyday.<\/p>\n<p>I have had  difficulty transitioning to the advanced meditation phase of autogenic training<\/p>\n<p>Something I used to be able to do as a child<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/640px-LobesCaptsLateral-500x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/640px-LobesCaptsLateral-500x295.png 500w, http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/640px-LobesCaptsLateral.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It helps to know what&#8217;s actually going on &#038; I have figured it out<\/p>\n<p>In autogenic therapy you are intimately tuned into the afferent and efferent nerve interaction<\/p>\n<p>As you progress to the advanced stage exercises there is an actual shift in brain state <\/p>\n<p><strong>The nerve signals reverse direction &#8211; there is an electrical polarity shift in the brain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/49244-imagination-reality-brain-flow-direction.html\">Imagination and Reality Look Different in the Brain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The measurable electrical polarity shift I read about somewhere else possibly in the book body electric &#8211; I will hunt for more information<\/p>\n<p>I believe it was referenced in relation to the loss of consciousness &#8211; but will have to find the literature<\/p>\n<p>This is an actual physical reflex that the stimuli of the autogenic training coaxes from the body<\/p>\n<p>As I recall when I used to do it as a child there was a sensation of an actual change in state before the spontaneous onset of colour visualization.<\/p>\n<p>So there is a quantifiable scientific basis to it that can be used for feedback. Once you have changed to this state the visualizations become very vivid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Autogenic training is my favorite form of meditation. Its like a cross between the relaxation response &#038; deep hypnosis. The original text books by Shultz are available on Internet Archive. The training consists of the relaxation exercises and more advanced meditation exercises that open up your minds eye very vividly. 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