8pm EST chat.
My first test at a LIVE embedded chat at the website.
I hope you enjoy it and tell me if it works for you as you participate.
The replay will be here to watch if you can’t make the LIVE event.
Chris and I hope to do regular conversations together. Let us know if you like them.
-Lisa
Here are the links I mention in the LIVE chat:
onbeing.org Krista Tippet’s podcast
You will love this episode!
ELLEN LANGER — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness
Ellen Langer is a social psychologist who some have dubbed “the mother of mindfulness.” But she defines mindfulness with counterintuitive simplicity: the simple act of actively noticing things — with a result of increased health, competence, and happiness. 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. Ellen Langer has shown it’s possible to become physiologically younger through a changed frame of mind; to find joy in what was experienced as drudgery by renaming it as play; and to induce weight loss by substituting the label “exercise” for labor.