progressive muscle relaxation (Q1751958)

Chapter 1 / Relaxation's Importance Discovered in World War II / p.1 / How It All Began: Relaxation and World War II / p.2 / During the early part of World War II, ... / For example, the Japanese were dropping nuisance bombs on Guadalcanal to keep the few aviators we had awake and anxious. / ... / At the United States Naval Aviation Pre-Flight Schools, ... / Although we ... / ... / We hoped to devise relaxation techniques that would help us meet such pre-flight instruction and warfare preparation needs as: / 1. The need to speed up training and learning. / 2. The need to teach combat aviators to be able to go to sleep in two minutes any time, day or night, under any and all conditions. / ... / We had to ... / This was ... lap when | reported to the Del Monte Naval Pre-Flight School near Monterey, California, early in 1943. (English)

Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) (bibliographic)

81003639

Open Library ID

OL4258125M

Internet Archive ID

relaxwinchampion0000wint

reference URL

https://archive.org/details/relaxwinchampion0000wint/page/6

quotation

Chapter 1 / Relaxation's Importance Discovered in World War II / p.1 / How It All Began: Relaxation and World War II / p.2 / Testing The Program / p.6 We were given two hundred cadets who would be split into two groups: one hundred cadets would be given the course in relaxation and one hundred would constitute a control group who would not. / ... / The Sleep Test / p.8 / Relaxation Results / p.11 / p.12 / Some strange things ... / ... / They had learned to go to sleep in two minutes under any and all conditions — even with simulated machine gun noise in the room. / ... / That the experimental ... / After six weeks of the relaxation course, all but one of the hundred cadets were able to drop off to sleep in two minutes, sitting up in a chair in broad daylight. (English)

WordLift URL

http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/progressive_muscle_relaxation

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reference URL

https://www.medicalrecords.com/health-a-to-z/progressive-muscle-relaxation-definition/

said to be the same as

autogenic training

1 reference

MeSH descriptor ID

D001326