section_path: Secular applications/Relaxation response and biofeedback
section_name: Relaxation response and biofeedback
paragraph_text: Relaxation response and biofeedback
  
  Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School conducted a series of clinical tests on meditators from various disciplines, including the Transcendental Meditation technique and Tibetan Buddhism. In 1975, Benson published a book titled The Relaxation Response where he outlined his own version of meditation for relaxation. Also in the 1970s, the American psychologist Patricia Carrington developed a similar technique called Clinically Standardized Meditation (CSM). In Norway, another sound-based method called Acem Meditation developed a psychology of meditation and has been the subject of several scientific studies.
  
  Biofeedback has been used by many researchers since the 1950s in an effort to enter deeper states of mind.