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Beyond the Relaxation Response: The Stress-Reduction Program That Has Helped Millions of Americans Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1985

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From the bestselling author of The Relaxation Response, a practical program that may help you:
• Relieve headaches, backaches, and chest pains
• Lower blood pressure and cholesterol
• Mitigate insomnia and decrease anxiety
 
In just minutes a day, you can easily master the stress-reduction techniques that have helped millions conquer or alleviate one of today’s most serious and widespread health problems. Employing neither drugs nor doctors, Dr. Benson’s program is considered by many to be the most beneficial step forward in personal health and well-being in our time.
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  6. ISBN-10
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Herbert Benson, MD, is an award-winning pioneer in Mind Body Medicine. He is the Director Emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mind Body Medicine Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Benson is the author or coauthor of more than 190 scientific publications and 12 books, including Beyond the Relaxation Response: The Stress-Reduction Program That Has Helped Millions of Americans.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; 8th Printing edition (September 1, 1985)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425081834
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425081839
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.14 x 0.47 x 6.77 inches
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    Herbert Benson, M.D., is the Director Emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (BHI), and Mind Body Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Benson is the author or co-author of more than 190 scientific publications and 12 books. More than five million copies of his books have been printed in many languages.

    Dr. Benson is a pioneer in mind body medicine, one of the first Western physicians to bring spirituality and healing into medicine. In his 40+ year career, he has defined the relaxation response and continues to lead teaching and research into its efficacy in counteracting the harmful effects of stress. The recipient of numerous national and international awards, Dr. Benson lectures widely about mind body medicine and the BHI's work. His expertise is frequently sought by national and international news media, and he appears in scores of newspapers, magazines, and television programs each year. Dr. Benson's research extends from the laboratory to the clinic to Asian field expeditions. His work serves as a bridge between medicine and religion, East and West, mind and body, and belief and science.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book informative, interesting, and helpful for self-help. They say it provides a relaxation method that helps control stress. Readers mention controlling stress may help relieve headaches, lower blood pressure, eliminate anxiety, and relieve chest pains.

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Customers find the book informative, with an interesting approach to real mental challenges that affect physical health. They say it's a great meditation book and provides good continuing education about the science behind meditation. Readers also mention the book is an excellent tool for learning to relax and deal with the stresses of the day.

"...Reinforces the belief in meditation. Extremely valuable research was obvious. I recommend any publication from Dr. Herbert Benson." Read more

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Customers say the book provides a relaxation method. They mention controlling stress may help relieve headaches, lower blood pressure, eliminate insomnia, and reduce anxiety. Readers also say it's powerful and healing for the body and mind when they meditate.

"...this whole meditation thing and it's just so powerful and healing for the body and mind when we meditate. I'm so glad I read this book." Read more

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Very poor quality edition.
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Very poor quality edition.
I have enjoyed Dr Benson’s informative books for years and purchased this one as a gift. While the message may be here, the quality of the print and paper (in this Berkley Books edition) is so poor as to make a read almost painful. Perhaps helpful in washing the words from your thoughts and ultimately meditative in direction. Mostly a waste of my money, and paper. Certainly not a “Vital Next Step”.
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Henry J Bevil
5.0 out of 5 stars Great author
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2024
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An audio version would have been nice. Reinforces the belief in meditation. Extremely valuable research was obvious. I recommend any publication from Dr. Herbert Benson.
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Richelle
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2014
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This was the perfect read right after reading The Relaxation Response. Dr. Benson put so much research in to this whole meditation thing and it's just so powerful and healing for the body and mind when we meditate. I'm so glad I read this book.
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Joseph J. Truncale
4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting and unique approach to using the "relaxation response."
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2017
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I had read the Relaxation Response book many years ago and recently purchased this 180 page paperback book at a bargain price (Beyond the relaxation response: The stress reduction program by Herbert Benson, M.D. with William Proctor) on Amazon.

This book explores further the subject of the “relaxation response” in combination with the faith factor. This program is focused on how to use the “relaxation response” along with using a religious or spiritual mantra to help reduce stress. It is a known fact that controlling your stress may help to relieve headaches, lower blood pressure, eliminate insomnia, decrease anxiety, and relieve chest pains and backaches and other issues related to stress problems.

This book is organized into three parts. Part one covers the introduction, explains what is the faith factor and frontiers of scientific research. Part two explains an adventure in the Himalayas, the road to upper Dharmsala, the phenomenon of the “Fierce Woman,” the lessons of the Lamas. Part three finally gets to “a practical guide to greater physical and mental well-being.” How to work with your Doctor toward optimal health, the fundamentals of the faith factor: how to combine the relaxation response and your personal beliefs, the way to power over your physical and mental problems and what are the outer limits?

I found this book to be interesting and informative. The “relaxation response” works great when I combined it with my Reiki (Universal Healing) techniques. If you are seeking less stress in your life this is a book you will want to check out.

Rating: 4 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Chair/Seated Tai Chi, Qigong and Yoga for seniors and the physically challenged).
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Cubby
5.0 out of 5 stars Zoned Out
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2007
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I had read the first book on the relaxation response, but it just didn't "do it" for me. It taught me the basics but I already knew the basics. If you don't know the basics you really should read it first.

This book was awesome. I have so deepened my meditation. He encourages you to tap into your own belief system and that made such a tremendous difference in my meditation experience.

I would recommend this book to anyone wanted to learn the art of meditation.
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Li-Wha Wu
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2018
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The printing in some pages was smeary.
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Lisa P.
5.0 out of 5 stars godsend recovering from stroke
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014
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Got this and the original Relaxation Response for my husband following a brain hemorrhage/stroke and they have become his bible during recovery in terms of helping to cope with the after effects of brain trauma. Of all of his medical treatment and therapy, these books were the most effective medicine.
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ZABADAK!
5.0 out of 5 stars Meditation and it's Application
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2018
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Great book. Dr. Benson's attempt to quantify g'tummo is amazing. Great meditation book.
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Linda S
4.0 out of 5 stars Good continuing education about the science behind meditation
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2015
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I actually like this better than his first book. The author is well educated and trained, and he is happy to tell you that, over and over and over. But he includes a variety of information in here. Little of it is actually the practice of meditation, but it is great supporting information if you are interested. And he does give credibility to the topic, even though he is loooong winded. I am not sorry I bought it.
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Rabasa
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesante lectura
Reviewed in Mexico on September 6, 2023
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El libro ayuda a relajarse en épocas de crisis cómo angustia
Si están pasando por una época de estrés este es un gran libro
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Relax
Reviewed in Italy on August 15, 2022
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David
5.0 out of 5 stars A really interesting read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2020
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Dr Benson’s book was informative, not overly-technical and very readable. I found it personally therapeutic in that it addressed some of health questions pertinent to me. I also found Dr Benson’s explanation of the value of the placebo effect in medicine to be enlightening and heartening.

I particularly appreciated Dr Benson,s respectful and uncritical reporting of religious ideas and beliefs, even if, at times as a Christian, I felt uncomfortable with the implied suggestion that all beliefs were equally valid and useful as long as they were sincerely believed. That said, as a Christian it challenged my thinking around the importance of the practical application of my own theological belief to mental, emotional and physical health issues and the fact that this is of much greater significance in biblical literature than we sometimes give attention to in the Church.

Dr Benson himself does not admit preference for a particular faith, but argues convincingly that faith plays an important part in wellness and indeed, when faith is coupled with his famed “Relaxation Response”, the impact on health in enhanced. His open-minded approach to matters of faith is a challenge to a reductionist and materialistic worldview and as such is welcome to those of us who believe that scientific rationalism can not solve all the worlds ills and ought to go hand in hand with the wisdom and insights of faith based world views.
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4.0 out of 5 stars About the book.
Reviewed in India on October 19, 2018
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Nakul Thaker
2.0 out of 5 stars Printing Quality
Reviewed in India on February 8, 2023
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Bad printing. Smudged letters hard to read, plus very small font size.
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