For 10 to 20 minutes each day, take time to produce a relaxation response in your body and mind.

"I've developed a technique to induce a relaxation response in the child," he said.

After you make the presentation, you should go back to a relaxation response, where things become normal and the body calms down.

If we don't learn coping techniques to help us come back to that relaxation response, it will eventually take its toll.

"But if you learn techniques for turning on the relaxation response, you can turn off that stress response."

Wolpe taught his patients relaxation responses because it is not possible to be both relaxed and anxious at the same time.

The relaxation response includes changes in metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and brain chemistry.

The relaxation response summoned by meditation slows down the sympathetic nervous system.

Consciously taking a few deep breaths is actually the quickest way to experience the body's relaxation response.

The relaxation response has also been shown to lower blood pressure significantly.