European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Today s crossword relax it la do you a world of Good by Daniel Goleman new Vert times he simple act of becoming rat axed can have surprising health benefits now research is showing. In addition to Tea obvious  affect of relaying stress and mental tension a new finding info Cate that deep rate Abon a ptt.6lmt regularly on stun Theo the immune system am produce a Ami of other medically valuable h sat Malio Tor example relaxation training has bean found to Widen retire fed respiratory passages. In Home diabetics Teta Atton can reduce the need for Smuin. H Many Pattani Ullh chronic unbearable pain a wins he brought about  Relief. Moreover the research shows relaxation May help Ward off disease by or Hong people less susceptible to viruses and by lowering Bacod pressure and Chola Lerol Amio Upah Aucon of welts have Ioos been Assoc Ateo with Medr Tatnen. A particular form of relaxation Ihrl experimental evidence avs Sable now o run Chi stronger than it was for meditation b few years ago. In addition any form of deep rolex Sutton seems to bring these benefits. Tha medical advantages Are nol from Ordinary relaxing activities such a Catnap or gardening but from intensive techniques that allow people to evoke a specific physiological state. Just sitting quietly or. Say watching television to nol enough to practice the  changes Aid Herbert Benson doctor of the division of behavioural met Cne at Beth Israel Hospital. Part of Harvard medical school in Boston. You need to use relaxation technique that Wib break the train of everyday thought end decrease Tho Beth Oil of the sympathetic nervous  Uke Medalion and yoga some of the relaxation techniques Betag used Are quite ancient. Others Bee biofeedback or progressive muscle relaxation Are Rafe very new. And some. Re repetitive prayer. May teem Worth away from a Erdne. All of the Lecort piss Hough seem to evoke a single  slate that Benson some years ago Caton the relaxation Hie finding have Tad Man hospitals to teach their patients ways to retail As pert of Thor medical treatment. In some hospitals physicians can now prescribe a relaxation program that is broadcast on televisions in Hospital rooms so Hal patients can learn the Lech ictus from their Hospital Beds. More and More doctors Are seeing the value of these techniques As a Way to tap the inner capacity of patients to help with their own Healing said Jan Kabal Zinn director of the stress reduction and relaxation program Al the University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester. A 57-Minule relaxation videotape made by Kabat 2nn is in use Al about 100 hospitals. On that videotape for example pallets Are taught to med tale on their breathing and a e Ted in scanning Tea sensations throughout their bodies. The sympathetic nervous Lytten reads to stress by accreting hormones to thu Mobile the body s Muscles and organs to face a threat. Sometime Caton the fight of Hughl response the mob Teahon includes a variety of biological responses Tau drug shifting Wood flow from the lbs to the organs and increased Wood pressure. The stress response does nol require an emergency it can be triggered merely by everyday worries and pressures. H contrast the relaxation response Reta aaes muscle tension Lowers Wood pressure and slows the heart and breath rates. The new work is showing that along with these changes come Nils in hormone to veto that seem to produce Benefice by effects on the immune system. For example Rete gallon training in a Nedai students during exam was found to increase the level of Helper celts that defend against infectious disease according to a report to the journal of behavioural Medicine. Tom degree of benefits depends on the rigor with which people use the relaxation techniques. Those medical students who used the techniques just a Low limes showed Little or no changes in the immune measure. Those who did the exercises most fatty Fuby had the strongest immune effects according to the report by Janice Kiecolt Toser and Ronald Teser of the Ohio stale University College of Medicine it Columbus. H another study the Ohio stale researchers taught relaxation techniques to residents of a retirement Home whose average age was 74. After a month of training their Levels of natural Ker celts and antibody liners indicators of resistance to tutors and viruses had improved significantly according to a report in health these  Are Par Scuta a important for the Elk ten since the immune system weakens with  Hescott Ohser said. Much interest in the medical use of re taxation has been far patents suffering from cans vascular problems. A report in the 8rftfcn afer Ofcar to Tunai. For example reported that patients who had been trained to relax significantly lowered their blood pressure and had maintained that reduction four years later. I research at the Harvard medical school. Associates of Benson found that regular sessions of a simple meditation technique decreased the body s response to norepinephrine a hormone released in reaction to Stross. Although the endocrine system continued to Emit the hormones they did not seem to Travo their usual effects. Ordinarily norepinephrine stimulates the cardiovascular system Benson said. But regular relaxation training resulted in less blood pressure increase to norepinephrine than is usually seen. 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