Ellen Langer RETURNS: Lead a Stress-Free and Mindful Life | Align Podcast #510

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer discusses how mindfulness can unlock timeless youth, reshape reality, and bridge the gap between mind and body. Known as the "Mother of Mindfulness," she explains how we are our own limiters, the power of language, and the path to a stress-free life. Ellen also covers the role of rituals, human evolution, and how to access mindfulness in daily life.

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OUR GUEST

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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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ELLEN LANGER

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📘 The Mindful Body by Ellen Langer

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AARON ALEXANDER

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ABOUT

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Aaron Alexander is a pioneering manual therapist and movement coach with over 5 years experience. He is the founder and creator of The Align Method, author of The Align Method book, and host of The Align Podcast which has ranked #1 in Nutrition on Apple Podcasts.

Aaron has worked with some of the world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, and celebrities to help relieve pain, improve strength, better flexibility, and ease the mind and body.

On this channel, Aaron interviews renowned experts in a range of fields focused on improving the mind and body. This mind and body podcast will teach you all that you need to know to become the healthiest version of yourself by integrating simplified ancient techniques and the foundational principles of The Align Method to strengthen your body, balance the mind, and activate healing systems in daily life.

The mission? To be the best personal growth podcast about healthy habits, redefine functional movement, and make fitness who you are; not what you do.

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TOPICS

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1. Mindfulness

2. Positive psychology

3. Stress-free living

4. Mind-body connection

5. Self-limitations

6. Language and behavior

7. Rituals and human evolution

8. Addiction to shame

9. Enhancing the mind with drugs

10. Accessing mindfulness

11. Leading a stress-free life

12. Harvard psychology

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Transcript

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0:00.0	My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you
0:07.2	Much your mind, body, and movement. Today's conversation is all about the mind-body relationship. It is with one of the most well-recognized
0:17.4	psychologists on the planet, Dr. Ellen Langer. She is an American professor of
0:21.8	psychology at Harvard University in 1981. She became the first woman ever be tenured in psychology at Harvard. She is brilliant. She is the author of Carclockwise. She is the author of the mindful body, which we talked about today.
0:34.9	This conversation is a mind freak of sorts.
0:38.0	It gets into the way our thoughts, our feelings, our perceptions, our language, all of that forms our physiology and our lifespan
0:47.8	and our cardiovascular function and our strength and our connective tissue and our nervous system.
0:53.0	Really amazing stuff.
0:54.0	I think you guys are going to enjoy it.
0:55.0	I invite you over to the Aline Podcast YouTube channel.
0:57.8	If you subscribe to the channel this month,
1:01.3	the month of this release in September, you will be entering for a chance to win a rebounder
1:06.4	from Bellicon that is the best rebounding company in the game. I think I can comfortably say that.
1:11.7	I think they're considered that just generally across the board
1:14.4	I have what my house and big fan and
1:17.2	Subscribers will be entering for a chance to win one will announce at the end of the month to send you out a rebounder and it's a good time.
1:24.4	I bounce on that mofo every single day. I genuinely do.
1:28.3	Thanks for subscribing here, thanks for reviews, thanks for doing you. Let's get to it with the good Dr. Ellen Langer.
1:35.5	Ellen Langer, thanks so much for making time to come back.
1:38.8	You, I have a lot of admiration and respect for you. I've had for years now, like quite a few years actually, you don't realize that.
1:46.7	But I'm following yourself for a long time. But now in getting to know you a little bit through just our last conversation and observing you I think the thing that I'm the most
1:54.9	enamored with is you have what seems to be this like timeless beauty and youth to you I don't know how what your linear age is. I'm not going to ask what it is.
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