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The Relaxation Response
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The Relaxation Response has become the classic reference recommended by most health care professionals and authorities to treat the harmful effects of stress.Abstract:
When Dr. Herbert Benson introduced this simple, effective, mind/body approach to relieving stress twenty-five years ag, his book became an instant national bestseller. Since that time, millions of people have learned the secret--without high-priced lectures or prescription medicines. The Relaxation Response has become the classic reference recommended by most health care professionals and authorities to treat the harmful effects of stress.Discovered by Dr. Benson and his colleagues in the laboratories of Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals, this revitalizing, therapeutic approach is now routinely recommended to treat patients suffering from heart conditions, high blood pressure, chronic pain, insomnia, and many other physical ailments. It requires only minutes to learn, and just ten to twenty minutes of practice twice a day.read more
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Mindfulness Training as a Clinical Intervention: A Conceptual and Empirical Review
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Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments
Roger S. Ulrich,Robert F. Simons,Barbara D. Losito,Evelyn Fiorito,Mark A. Miles,Michael F. Zelson +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the emotional, attentional and physiological aspects of stress reducing influences of nature, and found that both the stressor film and the nature settings elicited high levels of involuntary or automatic attention.
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Mechanisms of mindfulness.
TL;DR: A model of mindfulness is proposed, in an effort to elucidate potential mechanisms to explain how mindfulness affects positive change and potential implications and future directions for the empirical study of mechanisms involved in mindfulness are addressed.
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How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective
TL;DR: Several components through which mindfulness meditation exerts its effects are explored, suggesting that the mechanisms described here work synergistically, establishing a process of enhanced self-regulation.
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The clinical use of mindfulness meditation for the self-regulation of chronic pain.
TL;DR: At follow-up, the improvements observed during the meditation training were maintained up to 15 months post-meditation training for all measures except present-moment pain, and the relationship of mindfulness meditation to other psychological methods for chronic pain control is discussed.
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