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Feb 17, 2022 · Herbert Benson, a Harvard-trained cardiologist whose research showing the power of mind over body helped move meditation into the mainstream, died on Feb. 3 at a hospital in Boston. He was 86....
Herbert Benson (April 24, 1935 – February 3, 2022) was an American medical doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He was a professor of mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) at MGH.
Mar 29, 2013 · Benson can be largely credited for demystifying meditation and helping to bring it into the mainstream, by renaming meditation the “Relaxation Response.” His studies in the 1960s and 1970s ...
Mar 30, 2022 · It was with a heavy heart that I learned of the passing of Dr. Herbert Benson on Feb 3, one of the pioneers in the field of integrative medicine. It is unlikely that the now well-established academic discipline of mind-body medicine would exist without Dr. Benson’s trail blazing vision and tireless efforts.
Feb 24, 2022 · Dr. Benson dubbed the effect induced by meditation “the relaxation response,” which could counter the flight-or-flight response to a physical or emotional stressor. He outlined his method for a popular audience in a book called The Relaxation Response, published in 1975.
A pioneer of mind body medicine, Dr. Benson defined the relaxation response, the physiological counterpart of the fight-or-flight response. Throughout a career spanning five decades, he researched the efficacy of the relaxation response in counteracting the harmful effects of stress.
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Feb 6, 2022 · A pioneer in studying and extolling the medical benefits of meditation, Dr. Benson died of heart disease and kidney failure Thursday in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He was 86...
