Categories >> Treatments >> Relaxation Response (Still & Internal) >> Benson Open Techniques
These techniques are based on the pioneering research of Dr. Herbert Benson, a research cardiologist at Harvard Medical School who originally came up with the scientific concept of the Relaxation Response, as a counterpart to the Fight or Flight Response. Dr. Benson’s original research used practitioners of Transcendental Meditation. His later research expanded to many other types of meditation or relaxation techniques. Dr. Benson sought to distill the essential ingredients of these practices to make them accessible to anyone regardless of their cultural or religious background.
So, the techniques in this group take this same open approach based on what will work best for any given individual in their elicitation of the relaxation response. This practical attitude is somewhat different from most traditional meditative practices and so are grouped in a different category.