It is a complex method of psychophysiological and personal self-regulation.
In this modification, sensory reproduction is widely used as a realizing technique — a deliberate reproduction of sensations. Reproductive training includes preparatory psychotherapeutic measures (studying the patient’s personality and determining the main methods of psychotherapeutic influence), preliminary exercises (breathing exercises, ideomotor and relaxing training of the muscular apparatus) and the actual training course of autogenic training. Reproductive training, as the authors point out, is a compilation method to a certain extent, combining in a single technique techniques borrowed from many sources. Much attention in this modification is paid to the so-called «relaxation mask» — an exercise with which the course of autogenic training begins: «Gently lower the eyelids, reduce the gaze to the inside and down to the cheeks on the sides of the nose, gently attach the tongue to the roots of the upper teeth from the inside (sound» T»), let the lower jaw sag slightly, feeling its weight, and slightly push it forward (sound «Y»).
Another feature of this technique is the introduction of breathing exercises into the training course, which is carried out according to the schemes specially developed by the authors. Rhythmic forced breathing lowers the excitability of some nerve centers and promotes muscle relaxation. Many authors note the influence of breathing exercises on the alignment of the emotional state of trainees, on the ability to concentrate. During breathing exercises, deep heat arises in the abdominal cavity, so it is used before the formula for inducing heat in the abdomen.