Relaxation Revolution: Enhancing Your Personal Health Through the Science and Genetics of Mind Body Healing - Hardcover

Benson, Herbert; Proctor, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1439148651 ISBN 13: 9781439148655

Publisher: Scribner, 2010

Synopsis

Relaxation Revolution The inventor of "The Relaxation Response," presents recent scientific proof on how the mind changes one's DNA, showing readers how they can heal themselves. Full description

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“Peaceful thoughts really can influence our bodies, right down to the instructions we receive from our DNA.”

"--ABC News"

“Nearly 35 years ago [Dr. Herbert Benson] became a kind of medical rock star with his bestselling book The Relaxation Response. It outlined a pioneering approach to relieving stress and a host of medical conditions related to it. Today...it is as relevant as ever.”

--Linda Matchan, " ""Boston Globe"

“Dr. Benson is truly one of the seminal thinkers bringing the integrated study of the mind and body to western medicine.”

--Dr. Mani Bhaumik, University of California Los Angeles

“Herbert Benson, MD, is the father of modern mind body medicine. Dr. Benson’s research has demonstrated that the relaxation response is the physiological counterpoint to the fight-or-flight response and serves as a natural antidote to stress.”

--Daniel Redwood, "Health Insights Today"

“Herbert Benson, M.D. and William Proctor have been enlightening pioneers in their studies...their work can be shared by everyone, not just health-care practitioners.”

--Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

"Peaceful thoughts really can influence our bodies, right down to the instructions we receive from our DNA."

"--ABC News"

"Dr. Benson is truly one of the seminal thinkers bringing the integrated study of the mind and body to western medicine."

--Dr. Mani Bhaumik, University of California Los Angeles

"Nearly 35 years ago [Dr. Herbert Benson] became a kind of medical rock star with his bestselling book The Relaxation Response. It outlined a pioneering approach to relieving stress and a host of medical conditions related to it. Today...it is as relevant as ever."

--Linda Matchan, """Boston Globe"

"Herbert Benson, MD, is the father of modern mind body medicine. Dr. Benson's research has demonstrated that the relaxation response is the physiological counterpoint to the fight-or-flight response and serves as a natural antidote to stress."

--Daniel Redwood, "Health Insights Today"

"Herbert Benson, M.D. and William Proctor have been enlightening pioneers in their studies...their work can be shared by everyone, not just health-care practitioners."

--Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

About the Author

Herbert Benson, MD, is the Mind Body Medical Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Director Emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. His groundbreaking work established the modern field of mind body medicine. He is the author of the mega-bestselling book The Relaxation Response, as well as ten other trade books

William Proctor, JD, is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and has written or cowritten more than 80 books, including Beyond the Relaxation Response with Dr. Benson; The Templeton Touch with Sir John Templeton; and several international bestsellers with the "father of aerobics," Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439148651
• ISBN 13: 9781439148655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 269