Coaching practices for Autogenic Training When Overwhelmed
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When I come out of a deep relaxation and try to get up right away I’m woozy and groggy, half-dazed and unsteady on my feet
- I just know I went from fine to flooded and I couldn’t tell you how
- I can run through it perfectly alone in my room, but the second there are eyes on me and it actually counts, my mind goes blank and the thing I’d supposedly learned just isn’t there when I reach for it.
- I keep trying to do the whole complicated thing all at once and there are just too many moving parts to track at the same time
- In the moment my mind goes blank and the only voice in my head is “you can’t handle this”
Practices that may help
- Autogenic Training, Made Practical
Autogenic training (AT), developed by psychiatrist Johannes Schultz in the 1930s, is a structured self-relaxation method that uses repeated, specific phrases — "My arm is heavy," "My arm is warm" — to trigger physiological relaxation through passive concentration. A 2002 meta-analysis found AT effective for anxiety, insomnia, and functional somatic complaints. The warmth and heaviness described in the phrases are real physiological responses (vasodilation and muscle relaxation), not metaphor. - Use the cancellation procedure to end sessions safely
Always formally "cancel" the AT state before returning to activity — skipping this can leave you drowsy and disoriented.
Autogenic Training, Made Practical - Map your stress response (conceptualization phase)
Before you train coping, understand the full sequence: trigger → appraisal → body → behavior → consequence.
Stress Inoculation Training - Overlearn skills that must survive pressure
Continue drilling a skill until it runs on autopilot — so stress does not dismantle it.
Overlearning: When Practicing Past Mastery Pays Off - Sub-skill isolation and sequencing
Automate the components of a complex skill one at a time before combining them.
Automaticity: When Skills Run Themselves - Prepare coping self-talk in advance
Script what you will say to yourself at the trigger, during the peak, and afterward — before you need it.
Stress Inoculation Training - Acquire a core relaxation skill (and actually practice it until automatic)
SIT requires one somatic coping skill — diaphragmatic breathing or PMR — trained to automaticity before stress practice begins.
Stress Inoculation Training - Redirect from self-focus to external attention
When anxiety spikes, deliberately anchor attention to a specific external sound or object.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Rapid relaxation: achieve a relaxation response in 20–30 seconds
Deploy a practiced, condensed relaxation sequence the moment anxiety begins rising.
Applied Relaxation, Made Practical - Daily 12-minute ATT practice
Run the full three-phase ATT session every day as a skill, not a relaxation ritual.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
Related concerns
- Autogenic Training Under Stress
Autogenic training (AT), developed by psychiatrist Johannes Schultz in the 1930s, is a structured self-relaxation method that uses repeated, specific phrases — "My arm is heavy," "My arm is warm" — to trigger physiological relaxation through passive concentration. A 2002 meta-analysis found AT effective for anxiety, insomnia, and functional somatic complaints. The warmth and heaviness described in the phrases are real physiological responses (vasodilation and muscle relaxation), not metaphor.
- Autogenic Training During Conflict
Autogenic training (AT), developed by psychiatrist Johannes Schultz in the 1930s, is a structured self-relaxation method that uses repeated, specific phrases — "My arm is heavy," "My arm is warm" — to trigger physiological relaxation through passive concentration. A 2002 meta-analysis found AT effective for anxiety, insomnia, and functional somatic complaints. The warmth and heaviness described in the phrases are real physiological responses (vasodilation and muscle relaxation), not metaphor.
- Autogenic Training In A New Job
Autogenic training (AT), developed by psychiatrist Johannes Schultz in the 1930s, is a structured self-relaxation method that uses repeated, specific phrases — "My arm is heavy," "My arm is warm" — to trigger physiological relaxation through passive concentration. A 2002 meta-analysis found AT effective for anxiety, insomnia, and functional somatic complaints. The warmth and heaviness described in the phrases are real physiological responses (vasodilation and muscle relaxation), not metaphor.
- Attention Training Technique Att Under Stress
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
- Autogenic Training
Autogenic training (AT), developed by psychiatrist Johannes Schultz in the 1930s, is a structured self-relaxation method that uses repeated, specific phrases — "My arm is heavy," "My arm is warm" — to trigger physiological relaxation through passive concentration. A 2002 meta-analysis found AT effective for anxiety, insomnia, and functional somatic complaints. The warmth and heaviness described in the phrases are real physiological responses (vasodilation and muscle relaxation), not metaphor.
- Autogenic Training As A Caregiver
Autogenic training (AT), developed by psychiatrist Johannes Schultz in the 1930s, is a structured self-relaxation method that uses repeated, specific phrases — "My arm is heavy," "My arm is warm" — to trigger physiological relaxation through passive concentration. A 2002 meta-analysis found AT effective for anxiety, insomnia, and functional somatic complaints. The warmth and heaviness described in the phrases are real physiological responses (vasodilation and muscle relaxation), not metaphor.
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