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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Preface: What Is the Goal of This Book?
Part One: Introduction to Autogenic Training and Primal Mind Awareness
Chapter 1: What Is Autogenic Training?
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: AN OVERVIEW
WHAT AUTONOMIC TRAINING CAN DO
Chapter 2: What Is Primal Mind?
EUROCENTRISM AND THE WESTERN VIEW OF PRIMAL PEOPLE
ROMANTICISM AND THE IDEALIZATION OF PRIMAL PEOPLES
CHRISTIAN ETHNOGRAPHY AND “SCIENTIFIC RACISM”
PRESENT-DAY SITES OF PRIMAL MIND
THE PRIMAL “MINDSCAPE”
Chapter 3: Combining Autogenic Training and Primal Mind Awareness
THE EFFECTS OF AT-PM
Part Two: Autogenic Training Techniques
Chapter 4: Preparing for Autogenic Training
Chapter 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
Chapter 6: Autogenic Training with Positive Affirmations
Training #8: Adding Affirmations Formulas
Chapter 7: Autogenic Training and Medical/Psychosomatic/Psychiatric Disorders
Training #9: Adding Healing Formulas
Part Three: Advanced Autogenic Training Techniques
Chapter 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
Chapter 9: Applying Autogenic Training to Meditation and to the Subtle-Energy Centers
THE SUBTLE BODY AND ENERGY TUNNELS
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
Chapter 10: Primal Connection with the Sense of Touch
THE 54 NATURAL SENSES AND SENSITIVITIES
INTEGRATING PM TECHNIQUES INTO THE PRACTICE
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
Chapter 11: Primal Connection with the Senses of Sight and Hearing
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SIGHT
Training #27: Experiencing Sight, Sound, and Rhythm with Heightened Awareness
Training #28: Advanced Heightened Sensory Awareness and Nature
Chapter 12: Primal Connection with the Sense of Smell
CULTURAL VALUES ATTACHED TO THE OLFACTORY SENSE
EXERCISING OUR OLFACTORY SENSE
INCORPORATING SCENT INTO YOUR LIFE
SOME COMMON ESSENTIAL OILS AND THEIR USE
Training #29: Waking Up Our Primal Sense of Smell
MAKING HERBAL BODY BUTTER
Training #30: Herbal Body Butter
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 15: Primal Mind of the Cosmic Clowns
Training #40: Inverting the World
Epilogue: What’s Next?
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
Index
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