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The Alli Worthington Show

The Alli Worthington Show

How Your Mind Controls Your Body. Dr. Ellen Langer's Mindfulness Research

Aug 10, 2026 · 33m

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Join Me on Substack – https://wisewomanmethod You are doing everything right for your health, and you still don’t feel like yourself. Dr. Ellen Langer, the Harvard psychologist known as the mother of mindfulness, has spent fifty years showing that the mind and body are not two separate systems. They are one. And when you understand that, it changes everything about how much influence you actually have over your own well‑being. What You'll Learn in This Episode: Why "mind-body connection" is actually the wrong way to think about mindfulness and health, and what to believe instead How your expectations about your body ( coffee keeping you up, catching a cold, feeling fatigued ) can directly…