Leadership & Learning

A simple daily reset for leaders. Modern leadership puts a heavy load on our nervous systems. Back-to-back meetings and the pressure to be “always on” can leave you running a near‑continuous stress response in the background, even when the working day is over. Herbert Benson, a Harvard cardiologist, spent much of his career exploring a straightforward counterweight to this strain, which he called the relaxation response. The relaxation response is a natural, hardwired state t