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The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Ellen J. Langer (Author), Subhadra Newton (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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Learn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the “mother of mindfulness” and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.

“What matters more: mind or body? Filled with original research and thought-provoking insights, The Mindful Body shows that the two are not just connected but are actually one, opening us to vast potential for health and happiness.”—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational

When it comes to our health, we tend to live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees or frayed nerves or diminished eyesight—can change only in one direction: for the worse. Award-winning social psychologist Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in this negative outlook as well as the healing power of its alternative: mindfulness—the process of active noticing where we are not bound by past experience or conventional wisdom.

In The Mindful Body, Dr. Langer unpacks her assumption-busting findings and outlines her bold new theory of mind-body unity, along the way clearly demonstrating how our thoughts and perspectives have the potential to profoundly shape our well-being. Whether it is hotel chambermaids who lost weight when they simply came to see that their work constituted exercise, or patients whose wounds healed faster in rooms with accelerated clocks, she shows how influential our thoughts are to the state of our bodies. Her work has likewise proven that discouraging health news can have negative effects. Learning you are prediabetic, for example—even if your blood sugar reading is only a fraction away from “normal”—may actually play a part in the development of the disease.

A paradigm-shifting book by one of the great psychologists of the twenty-first century, The Mindful Body returns the control over our bodies back to us and reveals that a true understanding of health begins with our minds.

Listening Length

7 hours and 4 minutes
Author

Ellen J. Langer
Narrator

Subhadra Newton
Audible release date

September 5, 2023
Language

English
Publisher

Random House Audio
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B0BR8KLTMF
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	7 hours and 4 minutes
Author	Ellen J. Langer
Narrator	Subhadra Newton
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	September 05, 2023
Publisher	Random House Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0BR8KLTMF
Best Sellers Rank	#2,229 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #9 in Medical Applied Psychology #12 in Popular Applied Psychology #38 in Mental Health (Audible Books & Originals)

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Andrea Schilling

Mindful living

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024

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What a great book. I almost mark every single line of each page. Dr. Langer is a wonderful thinker and hopefully many people will gain from her teachings.

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Michael

great read!

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023

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I enjoyed reading this book and gaining a more holistic impression on health and wellness. Great for anyone who enjoys learning and gaining new perspectives.

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Joyce Stahmann

Wonderful possibilities revealed; however, getting through it is a bit of a slog

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2023

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I so appreciate the life's work of the author. She also sounds like a fun personality! She speaks for many of us who aspire to a culture with fewer stereotypes and zombie-like behavior--also way more freedom from anxiety, depression, and the limited awareness and choices we allow ourselves. I created my own interdisciplinary major in college and called it physiological psychology (48 years or so ago),and this book creates a big advance in people understanding that field.

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Susan C. McGhee

SUCH a great book!!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023

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I heard Ellen Langer on the podcast “Hidden Brain,” and bought the audible edition right away. Just finished listening and now will re-listen while I read it on my Kindle. That’s how important I think this book is.

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Mark A. Vorzimmer

Attitude!

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2023

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Wow, what a fascinating book. Well worth the read.

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C. FORD

How refreshing to be enlighted about being mindful

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024

I enjoyed reading this book and seeing new insights on how to see life. I couldn’t put down this book. I kept reading it.

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G. B.

It's like a scavenger hunt...

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024

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I started out with high hopes for this book, but it turned into a bit of a clunky read. It's not that there isn't helpful information. You just have to search for it in the midst of account after account of various research studies. I understand that research is important, but this book reads more like a volume of experiment results. Some are interesting, but I kept expecting to get to the "meat" of the book. About halfway in, I just started skimming it instead of reading it, trying to get to the bits of practical application.

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D Johnson

Reread it taking notes.

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024

Teaches mindfulness in a whole new way, with lots of great ideas to help you live a healthier life. I've already recommended it to family and friends. Good read.

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Joanne

positive outlook

Reviewed in Canada on September 28, 2023

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Her mind is amazing. She is right, we need to be more mindful. I now feel less like an outlier. I am planning on sharing her way of thinking with family and friends. Love this author.

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Miss J.

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2024

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Sadly post person bent package in half and shoved through letter box which crushed edges of hard cover and some of the pages. I think it was royal mail. But the book itself albeit it crushed around the edges is wonderful, and informative. I would suggest that you inform Amazon not to use royal mail. This is the second royal mail delivery from Amazon that has been damaged in exactly the same way. Im always in as I am disabled, so there was no need for the damage.

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Amazon Customer

I cannot agree some points

Reviewed in Japan on February 1, 2024

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Overall good, but in some arguments the logic is not enough.

Theresa Kozar

Of enormous value to our notions of health!

Reviewed in Australia on December 29, 2023

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I have given this 5 stars because every page I read made me feel more and more optimistic of humankind's ability to take off the blinkers that have been imposed on us by our mindless conditioning! I feel enormous gratitude to Ellen Langer for the work she has put in to researching this subject of body/mind connections. I found it wonderfully exciting to read of the many different ways she has challenged the fixed and very limited ideas that are accepted at this moment as normal, in an area that is of huge importance to the health of every human on this planet. It is common sense gold and I would encourage all who want to take charge of their own health to read and fully absorb the notions put forward in this brilliant book. I now want to read it again to fully savour the huge excitement I feel when I picture in my mind the very real possibilities this liberating information can have on our global future. In my opinion it is going to be a real game changer and could have an enormous impact on the way we think about not only our health but our other systems such as our education, our government, our social relationships and so on. I can only say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and urge everyone to read it as soon as possible!

Princess Sparkle Pony

Inspiring but a bit disjointed

Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2023

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This book draws on fascinating research which challenges some general assumptions about illness and ageing and, in that sense, I found it very worthwhile; however, I have to say I had a difficult time following the author's flow and organization of ideas from chapter to chapter, even sentence to sentence sometimes! It sort of read like she was putting down whatever came into her head next, which may have had a connection for her at the time, but it didn't translate coherently to this reader.

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