Autogenic Training

Duties and Responsibilities:  is a technique that teaches your body to respond to your verbal commands. These commands tell your body to relax and control breathing, blood pressure, heartbeat, and body temperature. After you learn the technique, you can use it whenever you need or want relief from symptoms of stress, or you can practice it regularly to enjoy the benefits of deep relaxation and prevent the effects of chronic stress. Autogenic training consists of six standard exercises that make the body feel warm, heavy, and relaxed.

Education: Following an initial personal assessment you will learn AT over an eight to ten week period, in one-hourly sessions for individuals, or longer sessions when learning in small groups. Each week you will learn simple formulas that can be repeated silently to yourself while you are sitting down or lying in a comfortable position. Between the sessions you will be asked to practice the exercise two to three times each day and keep a record of your observations. You will learn to practice 'passive focus and concentration through observing yourself in a completely new way.

Reflection: I actually find this career very interesting. This would be a career I wouldn't mind to have considering it’s all about relaxing yourself in case you have a big test coming up or something important. The steps to it don’t seem difficult in fact they grab my attention. I wasn't able to find out what’s the salary for people who do this for a living but whenever I find a career I’m interested  in I don’t really focus on the pay because what’s the point in having all the money you can possibly have but not be happy with what you do. I would like to be a autogenic trainer.