relaxation

Herbert Benson, a Harvard-affiliated researcher, cardiologist and founder of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been trumpeting the benefits of the ‘relaxation response’ for decades (via Harvard School of Public Health).

As the health editor for Chatelaine.com, I come across new health advice, books, and products every day. But applying all that information to my day-to-day life isn't always easy and sometimes I need a healthy kick in the behind as much as the next person.

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I don’t consider myself a workaholic. I can’t be, because I’m not working all the time. However, I am thinking about work a lot of the time, which is pretty exhausting.

When I was a kid, I was a champion television watcher. I could sit in a basement and watch sitcom after sitcom, from Growing Pains to the Hogan Family.