The Relaxation Response for Your Wellness

This is a website that provides a general overview of the Relaxation Response and describes how it can be understood within many contexts. This includes the following contexts.

• The perspective of the history of science and findings about stress with the fight or flight response in comparison with the reduction of stress through the relaxation response
• The physiological perspective of activation of the sympathetic nervous system during stress versus activation of the parasympathetic nervous system during relaxation practices
• The cultural perspective of how the Relaxation Response has been utilized directly or indirectly throughout many millennia and across a multitude of cultures

The website also covers some open techniques for how to elicit the Relaxation Response. These techniques include the Benson-Henry Technique and the Simple Technique.

The website also has some explanations of the what happens in the body during the relaxation response along with summaries and references to many research articles about the Relaxation Response.