Advanced Autogenic Training and Primal Awareness

James Endredy is a practicing shaman of Hungarian descent who learned his craft from formal initiations with the peyote shamans of Mexico and through 30 years of living with and learning from shamanic cultures in North and South America. He is actively involved in preserving historic alchemy texts as well as the world’s indigenous cultures and sacred sites. The award-winning author of several books, including Advanced Shamanism, Teachings of the Peyote Shamans, Ecoshamanism, and Earthwalks for Body and Spirit, he lives in California.

Developed by German doctor Johannes Schultz in the early 20th century, autogenic training teaches you how to use the mind-body connection to influence and regulate the body's normally involuntary autonomic functions by passively tapping into your central and peripheral nervous systems. Often used for stress relief, autogenic training can also be used for asthma, chronic pain, migraines, constipation, anxiety, panic attacks, and a host of other conditions. In this book, James Endredy takes autogenic training to a new level, revealing how to use AT practices to optimize health as well as reawaken your senses, reconnect with Nature and tap into the vast knowledge and power of the universe.Beginning with the 7 standard formulas of AT, the author provides step-by-step instructions for 40 AT and primal mind techniques. He offers advanced trainings to rekindle your primal touch sensitivity, experience enhanced sight and hearing, and awaken your primal sense of smell.Drawing on more than 25 years of experience living and working with indigenous cultures, including the Huichol, Iroquois, Sioux, Maya, and Hopi, Endredy shows how, much like a vision quest, this unique combination of AT and primal mind awareness offers rites of passage sorely missing from modern life. It gives you the tools to go deeper into your physiological being, to directly experience how we relate to the world, and to reconnect with the ancient wisdom within each of us.

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