Herbert Benson Quotes

• The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

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  Stress, Fighting, Emotional

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• There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

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  Healing, Health, People

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• If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

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  Inspirational, People, Mind

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• The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.

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  Thinking, Brain, Mind

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• We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

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  Events, Way, Complexity

  Herbert Benson (1976). “The Relaxation Response”, G K Hall & Company

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• Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.

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  Pain, Memories, Stress

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• The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.

  Herbert Benson

  Mind, Tasks, Wander

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