Episode # 22

Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. Her numerous academic honors include four Distinguished Scientist Awards and The Liberty Science Genius Award. Her books written for academic and popular readers include: 

Mindfulness

Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and The Power of Possibility 

On Becoming An Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

The Power of Mindful Learning 

Dr. Langer your  work changed my life at at  time in my sixties, when I needed it most. I based  my book  and workbook, Take Back Your Outside Mindset on your mindfulness and  mindset studies.  

What is your definition of Mindfulness? 

Mindfulness as we study it, is the simple process of actively noticing new things. That’s all it is. It is amazingly simple, but the consequences of this are enormous. So when you are noticing new things, that puts you in the present, makes you aware of context, and that active noticing is the essence of engagement. So we find that when people are actively noticing, they become more energized, and this active noticing is literally and  figuratively enlivening.

Many people think  when  they hear the  word mindfulness, that  it  is meditation. Meditation, while fine, is not mindfulness. Meditation is a process that you go through to achieve post meditative mindfulness. Mindfulness as

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