" autogenic training "

[Noun]  | "autogenic training" 

1: a self-relaxation technique that involves silently repeating one or more statements intended to produce a relaxed feeling of bodily warmth and heaviness and to foster a state of physical and emotional calmness —called also autogenics

Origin: 1954 ;

 After German autogenes Training;

  * Note : The term and technique were introduced by the German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884-1970) in Das autogene Training (Leipzig, 1932) and other publications.;