{"product_id":"the-mindful-body","title":"The Mindful Body","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLearn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the \"mother of mindfulness\" and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight—can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in that logic. She has spent more than forty years testing the limiting effects of our negative assumptions as well as the healing power of being mindful—present in the moment and not distracted by memories or projections into the future. In\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mindful Body\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eshe unpacks her findings and boldly demonstrates how our thoughts and perspectives have the potential to shape our well-being.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking us into Langer’s trailblazing Harvard lab,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mindful Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecounts many of her colorful experiments to illustrate the influence of mindfulness on how our bodies function, how we heal, and even how we age. In one study, Langer rigged eye charts so that participants would identify some of the smaller letters correctly right away, giving them the expectation that they could improve their overall eye test scores. And they did. In another, she showed that wounds heal faster when subjects are placed in rooms with accelerated clocks; when you think that time is passing faster, your body heals faster!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn the other hand, her work also reveals that discouraging health news can lead to a worsening physical state: She shows that learning you are pre-diabetic—even when only a fraction separates your blood sugar from a “normal” categorization—may actually play a part in the development of the disease.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA paradigm-shifting book by one of the great psychologists of the twenty-first century,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mindful Body\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ereturns the control over our bodies back to us and reveals that a true understanding of health begins with our mindset.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45161993273395,"sku":"enf1792725408664","price":17.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/7077\/2531\/files\/the-mindful-body_1.jpg?v=1792725413","url":"https:\/\/kendripper.shop\/products\/the-mindful-body","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}