Advanced Autogenic Training and Primal Awareness Techniques for Wellness, Deeper Connection to Nature, and Higher Consciousness

Acknowledgments

Preface

What Is the Goal of This Book?

Part One

Introduction to Autogenic Training and Primal Mind Awareness

1 What Is Autogenic Training?

2 What Is Primal Mind?

3 Combining Autogenic Training and Primal Mind Awareness

Part Two

Autogenic Training Techniques

4 Preparing for Autogenic Training

5 The Seven Standard Formulas

Training #1: Breathing--The I Breathe Me Experience

Training #2: Neuromuscular System--The Heaviness Experience

Training #3: Heaviness and Relaxation of the Neck and Back

Training #4: Vascular Dilation--The Experience of Warmth

Training #5: Regulation of the Heart

Training #6: Solar Plexus--Warmth in the Abdomen

Training #7: Cooling the Forehead

6 Autogenic Training with Positive Affirmations
Training #8: Adding Affirmations Formulas

7 Autogenic Training and Medical/Psychosomatic/
Psychiatric Disorders

Training #9: Adding Healing Formulas

Part Three

Advanced Autogenic Training Techniques

8 Visualization and Autogenic Training

Training #10: Spontaneous Evocation of Colors

Training #11: Evocation of Colors on Demand

Training #12: Visualization of Objects

Training #13: Visualization of People

Training #14: Visualization of Abstract Concepts

Training #15: Self-Participation and Selected States of Feeling

Training #16: Using Self-Directed Questions

9 Applying Autogenic Training to Meditation and to the Subtle-Energy Centers

Training #17: First Tunnel--Red

Training #18: Second Tunnel--Orange

Training #19: Third Tunnel--Yellow

Training #20: Fourth Tunnel--Green

Training #21: Fifth Tunnel--Blue

Training #22: Sixth Tunnel--Indigo

Training #23: Seventh Tunnel--Violet

Part Four

Techniques of Primal Mind, Autogenic Training, Our Senses, and the Natural World

10 Primal Connection with the Sense of Touch

Training #24: Primal Touch Sensitivity

Training #25: Touching Nature with Your Hands and Subtle Body

Training #26: Touch the Earth--Barefoot Walking in Nature

11 Primal Connection with the Senses of Sight and Hearing

Training #27: Experiencing Sight, Sound, and Rhythm with Heightened Awareness

Training #28: Advanced Heightened Sensory Awareness and Nature

12 Primal Connection with the Sense of Smell

Training #29: Waking Up Our Primal Sense of Smell

Training #30: Herbal Body Butter

13 Primal Connection with the World of Nature

Training #31: Forest Bathing and the Nature Bed

Training #32: The Multidimensional Primal Relationship--Predator and Prey

Training #33: Nature’s Breath

Training #34: Temporary Shelter

Training #35: Feeling in the Dark

Training #36: The Magic of Water

Training #37: Primal Fire Connection

14 Going Deeper into Primal Rites of Passage in Nature

Training #38: Primal Mind and the Quest for Vision

Training #39: Primal Connection--The Earth-Body Rite of Passage

15 Primal Mind of the Cosmic Clowns

Training #40: Inverting the World

Epilogue

What’s Next?

Notes

Bibliography

Index