The stress reaction that was initially adaptive became maladaptive when the stressor changed their character from physical to psychosocial but the body responded to stress in the same way as it responded when the stressors were purely physical in nature. Herbert Benson’s Relaxation Response restores the state of bodily harmony to pre-arousal levels. But one has to deal with the human being carrying the burden of personal subconscious and terrestrial Inconscience. An integral consciousness-based paradigm includes and surpasses Benson’s approach to restore a higher order equilibrium that would be more effective.
Dr. Soumitra Basu is a psychiatrist working with consciousness paradigms. He conducts workshops on personal growth and is a Founder-Editor of NAMAH, the Journal of…