Word: relaxers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...price of getting older. No one knows that better than the purveyors of products designed to ease or ward off cricks in the lower back. Consumers spent some $2.5 billion last year on such gadgets, and entrepreneurs expect business to get even better. Says Virginia Rogers, president of Relax the Back, the nation's largest back-products chain (55 stores, $30 million in anticipated sales this year): "When I got into this business eight years ago, I expected most of our customers to be senior citizens. I was wrong. It is the baby boomers who insist on comfort and feeling...
Could it be that religious faith has some direct influence on physiology and health? Harvard's Herbert Benson is probably the most persuasive proponent of this view. Benson won international fame in 1975 with his best-selling book, The Relaxation Response. In it he showed that patients can successfully battle a number of stress-related ills by practicing a simple form of meditation. The act of focusing the mind on a single sound or image brings about a set of physiological changes that are the opposite of the "fight-or-flight response." With meditation, heart rate, respiration and brain waves...
...class already so fragmented by time and experience, the men found that rather than wanting to relax, they just wanted to get through their studies as soon as possible...
...advantages of switching are numerous. To begin with, we'd have a reasonably-sized winter break, long enough to relax or even acquire gainful employment. And we wouldn't have to return to face the whistling axe of final exams. Reading periods would be shorter, but since these are nothing more than ill-disguised extensions of the semester, good riddance. And our spring break might actually have a chance of coinciding with those of our friends at other colleges...
Sometimes, performance is a secondary consideration in an athlete's superstitions. It becomes more of a way to relax one's mind...