#ellen langer

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[theearthforce]

Time Is Subjective

Two experiments that show our perception of time literally shapes how our bodies behave, conducted by Harvard Psychology Prof Ellen Langer

Experiment 1: Blood sugar in diabetics changed based on perceived time. The clock was manipulated to run faster, slower, or at a normal speed, and their blood sugar levels reacted to the time shown by that clock, not the actual time.

Experiment 2: Wounds healed faster or slower depending on the clock speed people watched. Again, healing followed perceived time, not real time.

Wild, right?

References: [1] Park C, Pagnini F, Reece A, Phillips D, Langer E. Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in people with type 2 diabetes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jul 19;113(29):8168-70. [2] Aungle P, Langer E. Physical healing as a function of perceived time. Sci Rep. 2023 Dec 17;13(1):22432.

[jjdeeniz]

Rather than waste your time being stressed over making the right decision, make the decision right.

- Ellen Langer

[psgrout]

The wisdom of woo-woo

The wisdom of woo-woo

“I am what I pay attention to. I literally surrender my life force to it.”—Becca Brewer In the corner of my living room sits a small black rock given to me by a bare-chested medicine man from the Cook Islands. “Pa,” as he is known, plucked it out of a jungle river in the South Pacific Island, handed it to me and said, “If you put this in the north corner of your living room, you’ll become a…

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[atsoukalidis]

“If something is presented as an accepted truth, alternative ways of thinking do not even come up for consideration”

Ellen Langer

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¿Por qué importan los porqués?

¿Por qué importan los porqués?

Cuentan en los blogs de crianza que la etapa del “¿por qué?” en los niños se sitúa entre los 2 y 4 años. En mi casa se prolongó hasta bien entrados los 7 y ahora que los mayores rozan la decena, se ha instalado con nosotros una temible variante:  “Y esto, ¿por qué lo tengo que hacer yo?”. Y los padres pensamos que un “porque lo digo yo” no valdrá de nada. O puede que sí.  

Siendo niños…

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Ditching Evaluation

What if- just for a little while today we gave up all that constant evaluation of everything, most of all, our own sweet selves.

Evaluation, while it does have an eventual place under certain conditions, is generally just a form of death in which we give up our choice.

Because if we decide ahead of time whether something is either “good, bad, friendly or mean,” we eliminated all choice and are…

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Ellen Langer talks mindfulness, health

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 ...

“When you’re mindless, you’re not able to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves, you’re not able to avert danger not yet arisen, you’re not there and you’re oblivious to not being there. (...) Being in the present is a very easy thing that comes about by simply noticing new things. If you notice new things, you come to see you didn’t know the thing you thought you knew as well as you thought you knew it. That’s when your attention naturally goes to it. It doesn’t just bring about engagement, it is the essence of engagement. It’s literally and figuratively enlivening.

Most of what people believe, what they’ve been taught and read about, they’ve learned mindlessly, they’ve learned as absolute fact. And, as I said before, because everything is always changing and the context is changing, absolutes need to be questioned.”