Revisiting Mindfulness with Ellen Langer

 
It’s Thanksgiving week in the U.S. of A. and I’m off visiting my family. Recently, one of my favourite sites, On Being, rebroadcast a podcast with the wonderful social psychologist Ellen Langer – The Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness.

Langer has been doing research on mindfulness for decades, long before it was the current rage. Today, we think of practices like meditation and yoga as ways to be mindful. Langer says that these things are good practices, but they are just that practi...