Скачать или смотреть The Mindful Life: How Our Thoughts Shape our Health and Happiness with Ellen Langer & Tal Ben-Shahar

What if stress, aging, and even aspects of physical health are shaped less by events—and more by how we think about them?

In this conversation, Professor Ellen Langer, often called the “mother of mindfulness,” joins Tal Ben-Shahar to challenge some of our most deeply held assumptions about mindfulness, health, and happiness.

Rather than focusing on meditation, Professor Langer presents mindfulness as a way of thinking—an active process of noticing, questioning assumptions, and staying open to uncertainty. Drawing on decades of research, she shows how mindlessness contributes to stress and limitation, and how mindful awareness can lead to measurable improvements in physical health, emotional wellbeing, and performance.

Topics include:

What mindfulness really means (and what it doesn’t)

How beliefs influence stress, aging, and health

The famous “chambermaids” study and the power of mindset

Why stress is not caused by events, but by how we interpret them

The deep connection between mind and body

Hosted by the Happiness Studies Academy, this webinar is part of our mission to make the science of happiness practical, accessible, and applicable to real life.

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