The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to … - Herbert Benson

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[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions. It's his own experience, his way of thinking.

Herbert Benson

The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress. . . and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

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