An essential component of the mind-body work I do involves activating the body’s “relaxation response.” The term “relaxation response” was coined by Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School in the 1970’s to describe the opposite of the stress response or ”fight or flight” system of the body we are all so familiar with these days. At the time, it was a revolutionary scientific discovery to have evidence of how the mind can heal the body. That study demonstrated the mind a