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)

    “I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,—am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)