Dr. Ellen Langer: Reversing Mental Aging, Mind-Body Unity | Ep. 78

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles written for general and academic readers on mindfulness for over 35 years. Her best-selling books include Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Her most recent book, the Wiley Mindfulness Handbook, is an anthology on mindfulness in which leading researchers integrate work derived from her western scientific theoretical base of mindfulness with research on eastern derived forms of meditation. It will be published in early 2014.

Learn more about Ellen's work at http://www.ellenlanger.com/

Intro to podcast is an old Richard Alpert video sound bite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P3TrGCMHNU

Transcript

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0:00.0	I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
0:08.0	It's about how hard you hit.
0:10.0	It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
0:13.6	How much you can take and keep moving forward?
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0:19.3	as he dives into the minds of the foremost innovative health care thinkers and movement masters on their approach to optimal health and wellness.
0:28.0	A Line Podcast.
0:30.0	They are so committed to the fact that this society is the way it is and that's all you can expect.
0:36.0	And that's what I call vested interest in the ongoing game.
0:40.0	And if you have vested interest in the ongoing game, you are frightened by anything that might change it.
0:45.0	How did we get hung up this way? Because it's a social condition, you'd agree.
0:49.0	How did we get hung up this way? How did man get into this kind of cultural limits of this more?
0:54.0	Yes, this incredible assumption that society is as it is and has always been this way.
0:59.0	Well...
1:01.0	Because that makes no sense at all the moment you say it and yet people behave as if that were true.
1:07.0	Well it's just like for example, the fact, is it a lecture the other day of Buckminster Fuller and who's doing your dome for the world's fear I think up in Canada.
1:17.4	And he said, look we now know there is enough to go around. In other words, if we could truly collaborate with our fellow man,
1:25.0	there would be enough to go around for the world.
1:28.0	But none of us can break through our own models of the way the game goes enough to do the things necessary
1:35.6	to bring about that realization.
1:37.8	And it's only when there is enough that we can become back to we, both of us, a a subject and experience the unity when we are truly
1:45.5	collaborative about our resources. Welcome back to the Aline Podcast. My name is
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