Autogenic training, thanks to new research providing tangible evidence of the mind-body link, is increasingly in the forefront of psychosomatic medicine, rising above other techniques of inducing therapeutic suggestions.
The growing attention given Autogenic training and other techniques of suggestion arises from man's increasing need to alleviate the tension produced by the unbearable rhythms of everyday life.
Today, especially in the United States, advanced medicine has found objective and valid means for regulating the homeostatic activation that is often inappropriately primed by man's fight or flight mechanism, leading to many varieties of disease.
In the long run, the inappropriate activation of the homeostasis produces a series of neurometabolic disturbances that are translated into a wide array of symptoms that ranges from the alteration of the cardiac frequency rhythms (cardiac neurosis) to psychophysical tension associated with a state of anxiety to more severe psycho-emotive disturbances.
On the organic level, a situation of chronic stress often generates the functional disturbances that in time translate into real disease of one or more of the so-called "target organs."
So, it is necessary to monitor the homeostatic dynamics in real-time, to evaluate the sympathetic response to the stimuli, to establish the individual's physio-pathological threshold, and to modulate the alarm trigger through training, verifying systematically the physiological normalization.
The Autogenic Training Guard instrument is undoubtedly the most advanced system for the controlled induction of Autogenic training which has been, up until now, only an empirical proposition without objective measure.
With the help of a digital displays, the therapist can evaluate, while simultaneously inducing training techniques with the use of a microphone, some of the most subtle variations in the psycho-physical parameters of the patient, thus modifying the stress syndrome.
The physiological parameters which are most reactive to stress are:

The Arousal Skin Conductance Level represents a synthesis of the mind's actions on man's physiological functions. The increase of such activity is normally correlated to states of conflict, to anxiety and psycho-emotive tension that, inappropriately, primes the fight or flight mechanism.
The measure of such functions, captured by finger sensors, is translated on the Autogenic Training Guard equipment in a simple and accessible way so, as to allow a reading even of the most minimal variations of the subject under examination.
The Autogenic Training Guard equipment can monitor cardiovascular activity (the cardio-rhythm frequency) in order to evaluate frequency and circulatory function. In fact, a finger sensor allows for a correct measurement only if the size of blood vessels being examined reaches physiological levels. The sound of the scanning rhythm is an important check for diagnosing possible cardiac neurosis and extrasystoles.
Blood volume is an important parameter that allows a real-time estimation of peripheral vasodilatation directly correlated with the normalization of arterial pressure.
The peripheral temperature, simultaneously measurable on two different plexuses, is a parameter of which the alteration is normally associated with peripheral vasoconstriction caused by stress.
The Autogenic Training Guard equipment measures within a 10th of a degree, allowing the therapist to get a dynamic assessment of the two plexuses under examination. Such assessment is an important measure for the diagnosis and treatment of vasomotor cephalgies and many other circulatory dysfunction.
The Autogenic Training Guard equipment permits the therapist to induce verbal training with the use of a microphone-earphone system. The advantages of this system are clear.
Finally the patient has an opportunity to focus his attention and to become more introspective.
The Autogenic Training Guard equipment has four analog outputs in real time which can be sent to a chart record or to a computer.
The Autogenic Training Guard represents an innovative instrument for therapy and research in psychosomatic medicine, in hypnosis, in inductive verbal training, in meditation techniques and in the wide field of altered state of consciousness.