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that of 11 matched religious kibbutzim....There was no difference in social support
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4 (March–April 1996): 185–194. - The development and popularization of the concept of “stress” as we today
understand it was led after World War II by the Viennese-born physiologist Hans Se-
lye, who came to Canada (the University of Montreal) in the 1930s. See, for example,
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Stress Field,”Journal of Human Stress1 (June 1975): 22–36. - For an introduction to Benson’s early research in this area, see R. K. Wallace,
H. Benson, and A. F. Wilson, “A Wakeful Hypometabolic State,”American Journal of
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Simple Physiologic Technique which Elicits the Hypometabolic Changes of the Relax-
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popularizing his technique and its health-promoting effects was published in 1975:
The Relaxation Response(New York: Avon Books, 1975). - In a 1993 interview with television presenter Bill Moyers, J. Kabat-Zinn was
quite explicit on this point: “We’re not going to make your stress go away at all....
You’re not trying to make it go away. This is a fundamental point. People think ‘I’ll
come here and it’ll make all my stress go away.’ We’re not saying it’ll make your
stress go away at all.” Kabat-Zinn, interview by Bill Moyers,Healing and the Mind,
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clinical use of mindfulness meditation for the self-regulation of chronic pain,” Kabat-
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Kabat-Zinn,Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face
Stress, Pain, and Illness(New York: Delacorte, 1991); “Influence of a mindfulness
meditation-based stress reduction intervention on rates of skin clearing in patients
with moderate to severe psoriasis undergoing phototherapy (UBV) and photochemo-
therapy (PUVA),” Kabat-Zinn, E. Wheeler, T. Light, A. Skillings, M. J. Scharf, T. G.
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15.Psychology Today(October 1989). - Herbert Benson (with Marg Stark),Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of
Belief(New York: Scribner, 1996), 200. - Luke 8:48; Mark 10:51–52; Luke 17:19; Matthew 9:29–30.
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