The Relaxation Response |
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Product Description
When Dr. Herbert Benson introduced this simple, effective, mind/body approach to relieve stress in The Relaxation Response twenty-five years ago, the book became an instant national bestseller. Since that time, millions of people have learned the secret of the relaxation response--without high-priced lectures, drugs, or prescription medicine. The tremendous success of this approach has turned The Relaxation Response into the classic reference recommended by most health care professionals and authorities to treat the harmful effects of stress. This revitalizing, therapeutic approach, discovered by Dr. Benson and his colleagues in the laboratories of Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals, is now routinely recommended to treat patients suffering from heart conditions, high blood pressure, chronic pain, insomnia, and many other physical ailments. Requiring only minutes to learn, and just ten to twenty minutes of practice twice a day, the Relaxation Response has proven to be one of the most effective ways to relieve the tensions of modern-day living for a richer, healthier, more productive life.
Amazon.com Review
When you look at the popularity of mind-body medicine today, it's hard to understand what a groundbreaking book this was when it was first published in 1975. Based on studies at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Herbert Benson showed that relaxation techniques such as meditation have immense physical benefits, from lowered blood pressure to a reduction in heart disease. The Relaxation Response demystifies the mantra meditation used in the transcendental meditation program, explaining how anyone can reap its advantages with or without the help of a guru. If you want to understand the beginnings of today's alternative medicine movement, or if you're simply looking to learn a simple meditation technique without a lot of metaphysical trappings, this is a good place to start. --Ben Kallen
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Customer Reviews:
• This Was A Gift To Someone Else.
09 May, 2009
2nd time I've written this: Please stop requesting a review. It was a gift. All I know is that the person received it.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Review Of Relaxation Response
20 August, 2009
I was a little disappointed in the book. The first 90% of the book is spent explaining why meditation works, its background, and throws in some statistics. If you've already bought into the fact that meditation works as a stress-management tool (lower BP, better sleep, etc), you can skip to the end, or just do a web search on the topic. Seemed like lots of filler to me.
- Amazon Customer Review
• If Bitten By The Stress Snake, Here Is The Antidote
08 September, 2009
Dr. Herbert Benson introduced the Relaxation Response as a method for counteracting the effects of the so-called fight-or-flight response. The latter is trigerred in response to situations that are deemed threatening. The response is claimed to be an evolutionary trait that helped our ancestors survive threats. Today, that response can be triggered by actual or perceived threats and is too often trigerred in situations where neither fleeing nor fighting is appropriate. Frequent trigerring of the response, which results in increased heart rate, increased consumption of oxygen and shutting down of unnecessary functions, among others, can lead, according to Benson, to hypertension. Hypertension then puts the individual at risk of heart attack or stroke.
The relaxation response is presented by Benson as the anti-dote. Gleaned and repackaged from ancient Eastern and Western traditions - from Chrisitan mysticism to Zen Buddhism - the relaxation response consists of four simple steps that trigger calming effects on the human body. The four steps are 1) finding a quiet place 2) sitting in a comfortable position 2) repeating a calming word or short phrase for 10 to 20 minutes 3) doing this with a passive attitude (not judging performance). This technique reduces blood pressure, slows metabolism, and relaxes mucles, among other things. Used consitently, the relaxation response can help control blood pressure and possibly prevent its onset. It is ironic that such a simple, non-invasive and natural technique has always been available yet has not been promoted sufficiently by the medical establishment. In this regard, Benson has done a great deal in promoting this alternative treatment. This book is a simple-to-follow manual with an interesting dose of history on the various religious and other disciplines that have taught and pratciced versions of the relaxation response.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Stress Reduction
31 March, 2009
This book is "the" book for stress reduction management. It is an easy informative read.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Elegant And Simple Description Of The Basis For Meditation.
04 October, 2009
This book cuts through the maze and complexity of most of the self-help works that somehow may relate to meditation, showing the required essentials. This is done in just a few pages; the rest of the book is concerned with the historical basis for these essentials together with the verification of what is described.
- Amazon Customer Review
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