Dr. Luis de Rivera

The H.E. Dr. José Luis González de Rivera y Revuelta, Doctor of Medicine, is admitted as a Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, with the speech “AUTOGENESIS: de técnica anti-estrés a método de vida” (AUTOGENESIS: from anti-stress technique to way of life).

Response by: H.E. Dr. Francisco González de Posada, Doctor of Theology, Civil Engineering, Philosophy, Sociology, Medicine and Hispanic Philology

Real Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País, Torre de los Lujanes, Plaza de la Villa 2, Madrid (entrance via Calle del Codo)

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

6:00 p.m.

Format: In person and streaming

Registration: Please confirm attendance with the Secretariat: secretaria@raed.academy or by calling tel. +34 93 667 40 54

AUTOGENESIS: from anti-stress technique to way of life

Our behavior and our mental processes are conditioned by multiple factors beyond our control: genetic, environmental, educational, cultural and social. There is a critical moment in life when our consciousness turns back upon itself and discovers that it is conscious of being conscious, a phenomenon we call self-awareness. From that point onward, all philosophies and methods of personal development are born, as well as the conviction, or at least the desire, that it is possible to be master of oneself.

Autogenesis arises from my personal experience with what appeared to be a simple relaxation technique, which gradually opened unsuspected avenues toward the direct perception of deep mental processes.

The application of the method to my patients first demonstrated its clinical effectiveness and, progressively, its potential to construct what the Greeks called a biotechné, an art of living.

To facilitate its learning, the method is structured into three successive levels: somatosensory meditation, emotional meditation and meditation in the inner world, or autogenic analysis. At all three levels, a distinction is made between the direct perception of automatic processes and the voluntary creation of new processes.

Although it starts from a different principle, the discovery that the procedures and effects of autogenesis coincide with those of ancestral Eastern methods should come as no surprise, because both approaches are rooted in the same human capacity: the power of sustained attention. In short, I would say that whoever controls their attention controls their mind, and whoever controls their mind controls their life.

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