William Morrow The Relaxation Response

I first read this book in the mid-80s as a part of a sports psychology program I was participating in. It was designed to help you relax in pressure situations. You learned how to center, relax, and focus on your breathing. It worked great and I used it to improve my performance.I rediscovered the book from a completely different angle recently while exploring Zen meditation resources. It came up with a number of other books while searching here on Amazon. It was so well rated, that I bought another copy and was reintroduced to the concepts as a much different person 40-years older!The concepts still ring true and work great. If you'd like to explore a Western take on an Eastern philosophy--take a look at The Relaxation Response.

Very good book for stress related diseases.

Muy claro y útil para iniciar la práctica de meditación.

Je suis content d' avoir ce livre de référence comme guide de vivre autrement.

So many 'bells and whistles' have been added to the fundamentally basic practices of relaxation and meditation over the years that it's extremely refreshing to read the first forays into this field without what some may call the 'mumbo jumbo' that has developed as a culture around the topic.By approaching the topic from an academic point of view, one of the (I believe unintended) consequences has been to lay bare just how simple relaxation and meditation is, by stripping away the extraneous and leaving behind an entirely generic 'method' to meditate. No Eastern religious/mystic nor Western hippie/new age lenses required.It shows its age when it comes to correlate some of its hypotheses with medical science at the time. Crucially, this doesn't detract from the message, it just needs an update on some of the biological and medical presumptions. Wasn't a big deal for me.I've bought this book at least ten times for other folk to read with the message "chill out :) here's a present - a clear no-nonsense, scientific and very simple guide to de-stressing and none of you may be put off by (mumbo-jumbo) "