Good Golly Miss Molly!!
This book will teach you a simple technique you can do anywhere that puts your body in a state of relaxation. The best part? It is very well researched and documented and really works! I give it 5 stars easy.
- A reviewer on Amazon.com
Dr. Herbert Benson of the Mind-Body Medical Institute, which is affiliated with Harvard and several Boston hospitals, reports that meditation induces a host of biochemical and physical changes in the body collectively referred to as the relaxation response.
In the late 1960's, working in the same room in which Harvard Medical School's Walter Cannon had worked 60 years earlier, Mind/Body Medical Institute President Herbert Benson, M.D. found that there was a counterbalancing mechanism to the fight-or-flight response. Just as stimulating an area of the hypothalamus can cause the stress response, so activating other areas of the brain results in its reduction.
Benson and his team have also done clinical studies at Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan Mountains.
The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress including decrease in heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, respiration, and brain chemistry. If practiced regularly, it can have lasting effects when encountering stress throughout the day and can improve health.
Elicitation of the relaxation response is at the heart of the M/BMI's research and clinical mind/body programs.
The Relaxation Response is easy to learn and you can learn how to begin using it immediately by reading and applying Elicit the Relaxation Response.
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