What is the Relaxation Response?
Thursday April 26, 2007
The relaxation response is a state that is opposite to the stress response. Cardiologist Herbert Benson, M.D. coined the phrase after encountering practitioners of Transcendental Meditation in the 1970s, who claimed they could lower their blood pressure with daily meditation.
Upon studying them, he found they could slow their breathing by 25 percent, decrease their oxygen consumption by 17 percent, lower their blood pressure, and slow their heart rate. Learn more about the relaxation response and how to do it.
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Upon studying them, he found they could slow their breathing by 25 percent, decrease their oxygen consumption by 17 percent, lower their blood pressure, and slow their heart rate. Learn more about the relaxation response and how to do it.
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