Self-control Face Training Technique

The principle of reverse afferentation (the mechanism of reverse connection) gives an opportunity to influence on the specified basic psychological feature by conscious activation (or relaxation) of correlating facial elements. Training techniques created on the basis of Autogenic Training by J.Shultz and regulating mental processes, connected with emotional conditions, by a muscular relaxation, optimize the general emotional state of the person. The proposed technique (STEMA) allows selectively influence on concrete psychological features directly in a phase of the daily activity of the person, depending on requirements of an environment, or the certain professional specificity.

The technique can have the practical use connected with the conscious self-control and optimum regulation of functional conditions, providing various professional tasks performances:

- personnel working in specific psychological conditions (pilots, air traffic controllers, emergency and rescue groups), increasing efficiency and reliability of their work in a mode of stressors, disintegrating behavior;

- individuals whose personal achievements depend on ability to extreme mobilization (sportsmen).

Influence on personality traits, not affecting unique individual experience, can be directed on the behavior, becoming a source of external and internal conflicts. Therefore, it is realistic to talk about the impact as an attempt to diminish or increase the individual personal accents that cause serious psychological difficulties