Tag: Herbert Benson

  • Nation & World

    Cars blaring? Boss nagging? Take a deep breath. Now another.

    Daniel Goleman, Tsoknyi Rinpoche walk us through science, practice of why we should meditate

    12 minutes
    Illustration of a stressed person meditating.
  • Nation & World

    When science meets mindfulness

    Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School are examining how mindfulness meditation may change the brain in depressed patients.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Relaxation response proves positive

    Relaxation-response techniques, such as meditation, yoga, and prayer, could reduce the need for health care services by 43 percent, according to a Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital study that looked at participants in a relaxation-response-focused training program.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Meditation may relieve IBS and IBD

    A small pilot study by Harvard-affiliated researchers finds symptom improvement and changes in expression of inflammation-associated genes in irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease patients who practice the relaxation response.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Chill therapy

    MGH’s Herbert Benson, author of “The Relaxation Response,” says that the methods outlined in his book can create genetic changes in irritable bowel syndrome sufferers, and with further study might be used to treat other ailments.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Meditation dramatically changes body temperatures

    Harvard researcher Herbert Benson, who has been studying a meditation technique known as “g Tum-mo” for 20 years, says that “Buddhists feel the reality we live in is not the…

    1 minute