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Autogenic training
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<p>Autogenic training is a relaxation technique first published by the German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz in 1932. The technique involves repetitions of a set of visualisations accompanied by vocal suggestions that induce a state of <a href="/facts/Relaxation_(psychology)/vYhaCua8">relaxation</a> and is based on passive concentration of bodily perceptions like heaviness and warmth of limbs, which are facilitated by self-suggestions. Autogenic training is used to alleviate many <a href="/facts/Stress_(medicine)/H29jPp2B">stress</a>-induced <a href="/facts/Psychosomatic/jpUW2loX">psychosomatic</a> disorders. </p>