Tag: “be in the moment”

  • Health

    Ellen Langer’s state of mindfulness

    Professor Ellen Langer once apologized when she bumped into a mannequin, the kind of automatic, mindless response she says robs us of the benefits of being mindfully engaged in day-to-day existence. Langer, the first woman to be tenured in Harvard’s Psychology Department, has spent decades studying both mindless behavior and its opposite, making her the…

    5–8 minutes
    Ellen Langer