1. To teach someone the skills needed to do something; especially, through practical experiences: "The supervisor was training the woman to take over his job when he would retire."
2. To cause someone or something to develop an ability or skill: "The student trained his mind to think in a systematic and scientific way."
3. To make someone stronger, faster, or better at doing something before competing in an event or competition: "The young woman is training for the Olympics."
4. To teach an animal to obey commands: "The police used trained dogs to sniff out drugs."
5. To aim or to point something toward something or in a particular direction: "She trained the flashlight into the cave."
6. To improve something; especially, the mind, with discipline: "They trained their minds to learn the proper pronunciations and vocabulary of the foreign language."

A type of biofeedback when alpha brain waves (7.5-13.5 cps) are characteristic of relaxed and peaceful wakefulness or the alpha state.

In alpha biofeedback training, the subject receives information on his or her EEG as a means of achieving a state of relaxation.

In one technique, a tone sounds in the absence of alpha waves and disappears when the subject produces alpha waves.

1. A method of relieving stress by using meditation and other mental exercises to produce physical relaxation.
2. A relaxation technique utilizing self-suggestion, and meditation.

Autogenic training, devised in the early 1900s by German psychiatrist and neurologist, J. H. Schultz, first published in 1932, is a way of using suggestive words or phrases; such as, "I feel calm" or "I feel heavy" to passively encourage your body to relax.

Dr. Schultz' method, known as autogenous training, teaches a people to create a feeling of warmth and heaviness throughout their bodies; thereby experiencing a profound state of physical relaxation, bodily health, and mental peace.

Autosuggestion or a process by which an individual trains the subconscious mind to believe something, or systematically organizes the person's own mental associations, usually for a given purpose.

This is accomplished through self-suggestion methods or repetitive, constant self-affirmations, and may be seen by some as a form of "self-induced brainwashing".

Whatever one thinks, whether with a negative attitude or a positive belief, it will usually determine what the results will be!

A system of therapy in which misdirected neurophysiologic reactions are made perceptible (as by the oscilloscope, electromyograph, etc.): Ponesiatrics is used as a guide in recognizing and correcting such undesirable responses (dysponesis).

PÜonesiatrics is a technique of training which is dependent on the perception of errors by the observation of physiological parameters, such as biofeedback training.