Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

Today we're considering mindfulness.

Improving your health often comes with certain sacrifices.

You might need to sacrifice time to exercise or money for specialised equipment and food.

But mindfulness is different.

It doesn't demand our time or cost money.

Instead, it suggests we can enhance our health simply by changing the way we think.

So is it really possible to think our way to better health?

And if so, where do we begin?

In this episode, Harvard professor, Ellen Langer,

join me to delve into the magical connection between mind and body. Is the traditional sort of

view of the mind against the body? And therefore, what do you think we've been getting wrong?

Well, not that many years ago the medical

model used to believe that psychology was just totally irrelevant you know it's nice to be happy they

would think but that has nothing to do with your health more recently as most people know people talk

about a mind-body connection that's's not what I'm talking about.

My position is much more extreme and, by my understanding,

more useful, which is the mind and body should be understood

as one unit.

Now, these are just words.

You could have had mind, body, and elbows,

and we would have developed a different understanding of people.

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