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What if your body already knows how to undo stress?
Everyone knows about fight-or-flight. Adrenaline spikes, heart races, muscles tense. But Benson found something most people miss: your body has an equal and opposite mechanism that can shut the whole thing down. He called it the relaxation response.
Any disease that is caused or made worse by stress can be helped by the relaxation response.— Herbert Benson
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Mind-Body Medicine Pioneer
Herbert Benson was a Harvard Medical School cardiologist who discovered the relaxation response, founding the field of mind-body medicine and changing how we understand stress physiology.
Based on Herbert Benson: The Relaxation Response, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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