By Kara Baskin GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MARCH 13, 2015
It’s noon on a dreary winter Friday at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Mass. General Hospital. Cars spray pedestrians
with filthy slush. Sirens squeal, horns screech, people jostle one another on the narrow sidewalks without bothering to look up. But peace and enlightenment may be at hand.

I’m perched on a chair in the office of Dr. Herbert Benson, a twinkly eyed cardiologist who exudes pure beatitude and who has agreed to walk me through the basics of meditation. Benson, 79, is director emeritus of the institute that bears his name. He is the sultan of destressing, a pioneer in mind-body medicine and one of the first physicians to link stress with physical health. Click HERE to read the full article