Ellen Langer: How to Optimize Your Physiology with Your Mind | EP 465

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I join Ellen Langer for a discussion about mindful living and the ways it can impact health and wellbeing. We dive deep into the power of placebos, and how mindfulness can transform our relationships with others. From decision-making to healing and personal growth, we explore the ways a healthy mindset can counter the aging process. We also discuss the importance of prioritizing happiness over all else, and the strength it takes to live a full and exciting life.
Ellen J. Langer was the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard, where she is still professor of psychology. The recipient of three Distinguished Scientists awards, the Arthur W. Staats Award for Unifying Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Liberty Science Genius Award, Dr. Langer is the author of eleven other books, including the international bestseller Mindfulness, as well as The Power of Mindful Learning, Counterclockwise and On Becoming an Artist.

Her trailblazing experiments in social psychology have earned her inclusion in The New York Times Magazine’s “Year in Ideas” issue. She is known worldwide as the “mother of mindfulness” and the “mother of positive psychology.” She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lyme Podcast, my name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together
0:07.0	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness help you optimize your mind,
0:10.3	body, and movement today's conversation is with the beautiful and very brilliant.
0:15.9	Dr. Ellen Langer is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University in 1981.
0:21.8	She became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard.
0:26.0	She's also known as the mother of mindfulness.
0:28.0	She just wrote her, I believe this is her fifth book,
0:31.7	referred to as the mindful body.
0:34.4	And this conversation is all about the mind body relationship,
0:39.2	psycho semantics, and just how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions of the world,
0:44.3	perceptions of ourselves, inform our physiology and how that works in verse as well.
0:51.1	Dr. Ellen is just so hilarious and she's like I really enjoy having
0:56.3	conversations with her. I think this is this might be our second perhaps even
0:59.4	third of conversation and she knocks my socks off every time she busts my balls every time and I think you
1:05.9	guys are really enjoy the banter in this conversation so let's go to it with my
1:09.9	gal Dr. Ellen Langer thank you guys for subscribing to this to get each week's
1:13.1	episode. Thanks for reviews. I read all of them. Let's get to it with
1:16.6	Miguel Dr. Ellen Langer. All right Ellen I appreciate you. Thank you for
1:21.9	thank you for come back.
1:24.0	My pleasure. We're back in it.
1:27.0	So you have a new book.
1:29.0	I have a new book, like The Mindful Body Thinking Our Way to Chronic chronic health and it's very exciting it's
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