Relaxation Response

Relaxation response may refer to:

  • The Relaxation Response, a term coined by Herbert Benson and a book of the same name in which he describes his research into the effects of meditation
  • Dielectric relaxation, the relaxation response of a dielectric medium to an external electric field of microwave frequencies

Famous quotes containing the words relaxation and/or response:

    Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human race is imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    It’s given new meaning to me of the scientific term black hole.
    Don Logan, U.S. businessman, president and chief executive of Time Inc. His response when asked how much his company had spent in the last year to develop Pathfinder, Time Inc.’S site on the World Wide Web. Quoted in New York Times, p. D7 (November 13, 1995)