It's great for anyone who needs proper, deep rest.
Other behaviors were not significantly affected by ICV γ2-MSH including distance traveled, the number of jumps, escape attempts, defecations, food pecks, exploratory pecks, and the amount of time spent standing, preening, perching, or in deep rest.
Anyone can strengthen their resilience with practice, starting with the relaxation response — a physiologic state of deep rest induced by practices such as rhythmic breathing, mindfulness meditation, yoga, tai chi, qi gong, or prayer.
One is based on "The Relaxation Response" — first described by Herbert Benson, director emeritus of the MGH-based Benson-Henry Institute focusesd Bony Meliciting which focuses on eliciting a physiologic state of deep rest, the opposite of the "fight or flight" stress response.
He missed Gladys and Kate, his Li'l Girl and Li'l Li'l Girl, but he'd lived thirty-two years a bachelor before finding a wife, and easily slipped back into a steadying loneliness out here among the countless spruce.... Grainier relished the work, the straining, the heady exhaustion, the deep rest at the end of the day".
A. Horses can doze standing up and spend more time upright than other animals, but get their deepest rest, the so-called REM sleep, only when lying down, said Dr. Katherine A. Houpt, a veterinarian and professor of physiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell.
Kobayashi et al. (1982) proposed the deepening rest model in their study regarding the bud dormancy characteristics of Cornus sericea L. This model emphasizes that chilling requirements occur only during the deep rest stage, and that calculations of chilling requirements are not necessary for other dormancy stages.
