Episode 7 | Dr. Ellen J. Langer (Mother of Mindfulness and Tenured Harvard Professor of Psychology): Implementing Effective Strategies to Adjust Your Thoughts and Your Health - Part 1

Aug 22 2023 • 42 mins

We get it. Ideas are easy, but implementation is hard. Presented by Guidewise, the Implementors podcast connects you to the insights, stories, and lessons learned of individuals who have mastered implementation.

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ABOUT DR. ELLEN J. LANGER: Dr. 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 twelve 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”. Her works and contributions to modern psychology have been praised by the likes of Jill Bolte Taylor, Daniel Goleman, Adam Grant, Dan Ariely, Tom Peters, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil, Dean Ornish, amongst many others.

ABOUT THE MINDFUL BODY: Widely known as “the mother of mindfulness,” Ellen J. Langer is regarded as one of America’s most influential psychologists. Her new book, THE MINDFUL BODY: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health is the culmination of decades of revolutionary research that makes a convincing case to see mind and body as a single unit. A paradigm-shifting book by one of the great psychologists of the twenty-first century, THE MINDFUL BODY returns the control over our bodies back to us and reveals that a true understanding of health begins with our mindset. To order your copy of THE MINDFUL BODY, please visit Penguin Random House publishers here: https://bit.ly/47Fw5US.

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