TMHS 760 - Age In Reverse & Heal FASTER Using The Power of Your Mind - With Dr. Ellen Langer

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to harness the power of your mind to improve your health? On today’s show, you’re going to hear some fascinating research that proves that we are in control of our health outcomes. By simply changing our thoughts and beliefs, we hold the potential to become healthier, happier, and even feel younger. Today’s guest, Dr. Ellen Langer, is a social psychologist, pioneering researcher, and the mother of mindfulness. Since the 1970s, she’s been researching the remarkable concept of mind-body unity. She’s joining this episode of The Model Health Show to share her powerful findings of how your thoughts can change your health and longevity. This conversation contains insights on how your beliefs can affect multiple health metrics, including your cognitive function, blood sugar, stress levels, and lifespan. You’re going to hear the fascinating details behind Dr. Langer’s work, and the powerful authority you have to influence your health. I hope you enjoy this episode on the healing power of mindfulness. In this episode you’ll discover: How your perception can affect your body and your health outcomes. What the mindful body is. A distinction between mindfulness and meditation. Why taking notice of things around you is good for your health. How thinking in absolutes can make life less interesting. Why fatigue is a psychological construct. The interesting connection between cognitive function and perceived sleep. How the mind and the body are interconnected. Why stress can make you sick. The #1 question you can ask yourself to reframe your stress. How being more mindful gives you more choices. Why a diagnosis can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. What incurable really means. How beliefs affect the aging process. The connection between mindfulness and lifespan. How your assumptions about a food can impact its effects on your body. Strategies for releasing judgement towards others and ourselves. The relationship between forgiveness and blame. Why play is good for your health. How celebrating our differences can make us happier. Items mentioned in this episode include: PiqueLife.com/shawn - Get exclusive savings on bundles & subscriptions! Ettitude.com/model - Use the coupon code model15 for 15% off organic bedding! The Mindful Body by Ellen J. Langer Connect with Dr. Ellen Langer Website / Twitter / Instagram Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to automatically receive your episodes: Apple Podcasts Stitcher Spotify Soundcloud Join TMHS Facebook community - Model Nation

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0:00.0	You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stevenson.
0:04.0	For more visit the model health show.
0:07.0	What if our mind was the most powerful medicine in the universe?
0:16.0	According to decades of data compiled by our special guest,
0:20.0	our mind can literally influence how much benefit we get from the healthy
0:24.6	things that we do what we deem to be healthy and also our minds can greatly
0:28.9	protect us from the negative things that we might be exposed to.
0:33.0	Our perception is deeply determining our health outcomes.
0:37.0	In fact, one of the most remarkable studies that our special guest conducted
0:41.0	found that the way we think about activities that we do in our lives
0:44.6	can lead to greater weight loss and better health. Let me explain. At the start of this
0:50.0	randomized controlled trial, our special guest quizzed 84 maids at seven
0:56.4	carefully matched hotels about how much exercise they got. Okay so these are
1:01.6	chambermaids maids at seven different hotels.
1:05.0	Now one third of the women said they got no exercise at all,
1:09.0	while two-thirds said that they did not work out regularly.
1:13.0	Now our guest and her team took several measures of the women's basic fitness levels
1:18.0	which indicated that they did indeed have the poor health of basically sedentary people.
1:24.0	Then just over half of those women were told an unfamiliar truth,
1:29.0	cleaning 15 rooms daily, pushing a resistant vacuum cleaner, scrubbing tubs, pulling sheets, all
1:36.4	constitutes more than enough activity to meet the accepted recommendation of a
1:42.4	half an hour of daily physical activity.
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