Dr. Ellen Langer explains how mindlessness damages your health and why stress is often just a judgment call. After 45 years of research, she found that reframing a problem as an inconvenience instead of a tragedy can shift your physical wellbeing.
James Laughlin (host) and Dr. Ellen Langer (guest).
45 years of research.
You are the mother of mindfulness. How incredible.
What I came up with was sacrilegeous to some people. People confuse mindfulness with meditation. Mindlessness is not only rampant, it's enormously costly. When you're mindful, people find you more appealing. How could she talk about her own work as being famous? Everybody thinks exercise is good for you. Well, it's not going to have an effect. We have so many of these studies on this mind body unit.
This is all based on 45 years of research. Every time you're negatively judging somebody or yourself, you're being mindless.
My mind plays a lot of tricks on me.
Your mind controls your physical health. Stress is our major killer. Decision making and difficult decisions that make us so stressed. Next time you're stressed, James, ask yourself, is it a tragedy or an inconvenience?
