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1. Sports Relaxation Techniques

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   Autogenic Training and Somatic Feedback
   Autogenic training ($\text{AT}$), as adapted for elite sport, focuses on eliciting specific physiological states through self-suggestion. Developed by Johannes Heinrich Schultz, its application in athletics centers on achieving a state of "active apathy" [2]. Athletes systematically induce feelings of heaviness and warmth in their extremities, believed to increase the localized blood flow to previously …