504: How to think yourself younger | Mother of mindfulness Ellen Langer, Ph.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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“People think about living each day as if it's their last. One could also live each day as if it's their first," says Ellen Langer, Ph.D. Ellen, an award-winning Harvard psychologist known as the "mother of mindfulness," joins us to discuss how to tap into your mindset for optimal health, plus: - Ellen’s background & professional work (~00:11) - Ellen’s famous counterclockwise study (~03:07) - How mindset affects the aging process (~09:13) - Ellen’s chambermaid study on mindset & weight loss (~10:40) - Ellen’s studies on mindset & fatigue (~12:59) - Ellen’s mind-body study on blood sugar (~17:53) - How to optimize your mind-body connection (~23:14) - Why 1 + 1 doesn’t always equal 2 (~24:16) - How to manage anxiety from uncertainty (~28:18) - How to learn to be more mindful (~33:58) - How to make mindful decisions (~35:34) - How to create positive contagion (~43:39) - How to use mindfulness in a doctor-patient setting (~45:56) - How to balance presence & planning for the future (~54:44) - What Ellen has changed in her life since studying mindfulness (~59:16) - The science of spontaneous remissions (~01:04:38) - Why mindfulness is not a practice (~01:07:05) - How to keep childlike wonder alive (~01:14:43) Referenced in the episode: - Ellen's book, The Mindful Body. - Ellen's famous counterclockwise study. - Ellen's chambermaid study. - Ellen's blood sugar study. - Piano stairs experiment video. - Studies on attention to variability here and here. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:47.5	Hey everyone, we talk a lot about the MyBuddy connection on this podcast, but when you really
0:52.7	take a look into the research, it is seriously fascinating. There is clear science on how our
0:59.2	thoughts can control our health, a large portion of which is conducted by Dr. Ellen Langer,
1:06.1	an award-winning Harvard psychologist who was known worldwide as the mother of mindfulness.
1:13.5	She is a best-selling author of 12 books and she was actually the first woman to be tenured in
1:19.0	psychology at Harvard. She was the recipient of three distinguished scientists awards, the Arthur W.
1:25.2	Stats Award for Unifying Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Liberty Science Genius Award.
1:32.4	In today's show, Ellen talks about some of her incredible findings, including her famous 1979
1:39.3	Counter-Clockwise Study, and how we can all tap into our mindset for optimal health. Trust me,
1:47.5	this is an episode that will blow your mind and you don't want to miss.
1:53.3	Ellen, welcome. Thank you. It's such an honor to have you. You are a legend,
1:59.2	but for those unfamiliar, can you start by talking a bit about your background and the work you do at
2:05.3	Harvard? Oh gosh, I mean, I don't know where to start. I'm kind of old, so this could take the whole
2:10.5	time of our interview. I've been a professor at Harvard for about 45 years, and much of that time,
2:19.4	I've been studying mindfulness, and the work keeps growing in importance, at least in my own mind,
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