Thank you for joining us for episode 433 of Live Happy Now.

When it comes to our health, most of us believe that we just have to live with ailments and declining well-being as we grow older.

But this week's guest is about to flip the script on everything you thought you knew about health and happiness.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with the Mother of Mindfulness, Dr.

Ellen J. Langer.

Ellen is highly regarded as one of America's most influential psychologists, and in her new book,

The Mindful Body, she presents decades of research that shows how our thoughts and perspective can change our

health.

She's here to tell us how we can use the mind-body connection to rethink what we believe to be

true and explains how our thoughts could be undermining our health and what we need to do about

it.

Let's have a listen.

Dr. Langer, thank you so much for being on Live Happy Now.

My pleasure, Paula. You have written many books, but your latest one is truly remarkable.

It has had me absorbed since the moment I got, well, actually before I even got it in the mail.

And I have to say that one of the first things that struck me about it

was the subtitle, and that is thinking our way to chronic health. And I love the idea of chronic

health. Can you tell us what that means? Well, you know, we have a sense of as we get older,

we're going to become sick, and we have little control over being sick, and all of the

work, hopefully, we'll talk about some of it now, suggest to me that, no, we don't have to get

sick, we don't have to go to doctors, and I'm not putting down the medical world.

You know, certainly if I just broke my arm, I'd go to the hospital.

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