A book from HerbertBenson.

The Relaxation Response.

ISBN: 0380006766

This book explains how to attain a rest by relaxing.  
A simple way, with no attachment to spirituality, to relax and be rested.

This response is mainly physical.  There is another response that concerned the intellect based on a word that you repeat.  I think this is Jacobson.

XP works much better when one is rested.  This could be useful to a team member exhausted by PairProgramming or other demands.  

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Does anyone know a good reference for 15 minute guided relaxation (audio tape)?
-- JeanMarcHeneman

We make our most relaxing music for our children, to calm them down for bedtime.  The musicians tend to be very good -- many of our best musicians turn to children's music (at about the same time they start having children, I think).

See: FortyHourWeek, SleepToWork, SlowDownToSpeedUp

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Also see: MeditationTechniques
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