Yeung wrote:Some masters also use similar techniques to reinforce loyalty in their follower.
Again, that is a smart thing to be worried about.
"Auto," in "autogenic," means "self." From the beginning, autogenic training has involved autosuggestion but sought to avoid heterosuggestion. (Heterosuggestion is when someone else gives you a hypnotic suggestion.)
Of course there is the danger, and AT pioneer Dr. Karl Rosa pointed this out, that someone else will tell you a suggestion to suggest to yourself, which is heterosuggestion in disguise. Merely knowing that is to some degree a defense.
The basic autosuggestions in AT, having to do with warmth and relaxation, such as calming your heartbeat, warming your hands and so on, are of course learned from others, but those effects seem helpful rather than sinister.
In any case, AT is safer than allowing someone to make hypnotic suggestions directly into your subconscious, because you retain the ability to review and edit the material, because you are the one emplanting suggestions, such as quit smoking, stop moping about that silly redhead, or control your vomit reflex when in a spaceship.
I define internal martial art as unusual muscle recruitment and leave it at that. If my definition is incomplete, at least it is correct so far as it goes.