Ellen Langer says mindfulness is achievable without meditation or yoga. Ellen Langer is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the psychology department at Harvard University. Over 35 years of studying mindfulness, she has authored research articles and 11 books on the subject, including Mindfulness and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility.
Ellen Langer: We have these categories — work, life. And we have brains, brawn, so on, all the different distinctions that we make. We have the same needs we had when we were on vacation. Her take on mindfulness has never involved contemplation or meditation or yoga. It comes straight out of her provocative, unconventional studies, which have been suggesting for decades what neuroscience is pointing at now: Our experience of everything is formed by the words and ideas we attach to them.
What makes a vacation a vacation is not only a change of scenery, but the fact that we let go of the mindless, everyday illusion that we are in control. Tippett: Ellen Langer is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. I spoke with her in Tippett: I do always start my interviews by asking, was there a religious or spiritual or philosophical background to your childhood that had anything to do with what you now describe as mindfulness?
Was that there in the — no? Langer: No. No, not at all. My parents were wonderfully supportive, and my mother was so supportive, she would have had me laminated if she could have — [ laughs ] always bragging about me. And I think it was because they were so supportive that I had the strength, courage, whatever, without feeling it that way, to ask questions and to be out in the world the way many others might have been inhibited. Also, people were constantly saying to me, why are you smiling?
And so I was aware, very early on, that most of the people that I was meeting, in all different environments, were less than happy. And you say that with a smile on your face, but you mean it. Langer: Yes. Oh, I mean it. And the consequences of being in one state of mind or the other are enormous. So in study after study, we plug in — we manipulate this mindfulness and change the measures from study to study, and almost no matter what we put in, that when we encourage people to be more mindful, we find enormous improvements.
Tippett: OK, so let me ask you the question this way. And when I address the difference between mindlessness and mindfulness — so since my mindlessness was leading in my thinking, there was no reason for me to appeal to anything Eastern. This was all a Western scientific notion as I was developing it.
Langer: And so mindfulness, for me, is the very simple process of actively noticing new things. When you actively notice new things, that puts you in the present, makes you sensitive to context. Meditation, no matter what kind of meditation, is engaged to produce post-meditative mindfulness. And the mindfulness, as I and my students…. Langer: Exactly. Meditation that used to be required 20 minutes twice a day is slowly changing.
And what will happen is, the person will start to come alive for you again, and that facilitates the relationship. Tippett: You also describe in a very illuminating way how this begins early, early in our lives — that the unconditional way we learn in childhood, we pick up rules before we have a chance to question them. If you say to somebody, is there more than — is there only one way of looking at things?
Everybody will say there are many ways. But then they go through their lives, looking at it from a single perspective.
Maybe you know; therefore, I have to fake it in some way or feel bad about not knowing it or whatever. Yeah, and so then, then you come to see — if you just ask yourself, what sense does that behavior make? So you might see me as gullible, but in fact, what I am is trusting.
I might see somebody else as — somebody might see somebody as rigid, but what they are is stable. So then I stand tall, and I can go out in the world, and all sorts of good things are going to happen, and each part, again, reinforcing the other. Today, with social psychologist Ellen Langer.
In one of her most famous studies, she found that it was possible to lower obesity and diabetes in chambermaids who spent their entire days in motion, by essentially helping them name their everyday activity not as work, but as exercise. And her book, Counterclockwise , tells the story of her experiment to demonstrably turn the clock back on age with a group of men in their 70s and 80s.
Tippett: You do, I think, quite often work with organizations, businesses, and you sometimes give very practical exercises, thought experiments to people, to put them into this mode. And the reason for that is that we have these categories — work, life, and we have brains, brawn, so on, all the different distinctions that we make. Langer: Yeah, we did a few studies where we had people do things where they were given the label, either work or play.
And in this particular study, it was interesting, because what we had people do was to read and evaluate cartoons, jokes. So you would think that that content would have been fun. When they were doing it under the aegis of work, what happened is, their minds wandered. One of the ways we knew that was, when we asked them how much they would need to be paid in order to do more of this, for example, they needed a lot more than the other group, who was just playing.
Tippett: You also did this fascinating study with chambermaids who — if you looked objectively at the work they were doing, they were moving all day long. They were, by any definition, exercising, but they thought of it as work. That was the retreat study where I took old men to a timeless retreat that had been retrofitted to 20 years earlier and had them live there as if it was the present, speaking in the present tense and so on.
Langer: Right, exactly. And the effects from that study were phenomenal, basically, because these were really old people. This was a long time ago. Langer: Oh, OK. If we do that, we put this thing in a context. Both the mind and the body are in that same context. And as a result of living in that environment in this retreat we had set up for a week, their hearing improved, their vision improved, their memory improved, their strength improved.
At the end of this, they were evaluated by people who knew nothing about the study as looking significantly younger than in comparison years.
Tippett: So they — their minds pretended that they were 20 years younger, and they started to seem 20 years younger in every way. Yeah, exactly. Langer: Right, the people going back to the retreat, was then part of a — the basis of a series that the BBC put together, so the study was replicated in England and, more recently, in South Korea and the Netherlands. And that feels good, because those are such different cultures, yet it seems to work the same way. Tippett: Right, but then you made this off-the-cuff remark a minute ago about how this is when 80 was 80 and not the new And the fact is that now, 30 years on from when you started doing this study, we have had this cultural transformation in our imagination about what it means to be 40 or 50 or 60 or And literally — I feel like in the last ten years, 60 is not what 60 was.
Fifty is not what 50 was. Improve your digestion by eating slower. Feel fuller sooner and by eating less food. Eat in a healthier, more balanced way. How to practice mindful eating To practice mindfulness , you need to participate in an activity with total awareness. Start by taking a few deep breaths and considering the health value of each different piece of food.
How do different foods look, smell, and feel as you chop? How do they taste as you eat? Acknowledge your surroundings but learn to tune them out. Tune into your hunger. How hungry are you?
Know what your intentions are in eating this specific meal. Pay attention to the textures, shapes, colors and smells of the food. What reactions do you have to the food, and how do the smells make you feel? Take a bite, and notice how it feels in your mouth. How would you describe the texture now? Try to identify all the ingredients, all the different flavors. Chew thoroughly and notice how you chew and what that feels like. Focus on how your experience shifts moment to moment.
Do you feel yourself getting full? Are you satisfied? Put your utensils down between bites. Take time to consider how you feel—hungry, satiated—before picking up your utensils again.
Listen to your stomach, not your plate. Give gratitude and reflect on where this food came from , the plants or animals involved, and all the people it took to transport the food and bring it onto your plate.
Being more mindful about the origins of our food can help us all make wiser and more sustainable choices. If eating alone, try to stay present to the experience of consuming the food. Making the switch from mindless to mindful eating Mindless eating: Mindful eating: Eating on autopilot or while multitasking driving, working, reading, watching TV, etc. Focusing all your attention on your food and the experience of eating. Eating only to satisfy physical hunger. Eating junk or comfort food.
Eating nutritionally healthy meals and snacks. Eating food as quickly as possible. Eating slowly, savoring every bite. How does your food make you feel? To start tracking the relationship between what you eat and how it makes you feel, try the following exercise: Tracking the link between food and feeling Eat in your usual way.
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