Dr. Ellen Langer

I'd say I feel sorry for you because you're missing out on a great opportunity to take care of yourself.

It's interesting that we have a notion of mind and body as separate, and that's ruled for so long.

That's why people think the only way you can heal yourself is by taking some medication.

There's no reason to have a mind and body as separate.

They're just words.

And lots of this book is based on the idea of putting them back together, even just for useful purposes.

And if you have a mind and body in there, one thing, then wherever you're putting the mind, you're necessarily putting the body.

And so now I have decades worth of research showing that we can put the mind in very unusual places, take the measurements from the body, and indeed the effects are clear.

I think that for this person, the non-believer, you might ask them if they've ever seen, this may be off color or whatever, somebody regurgitating on the side of the road.

And how did they end up feeling?

Because many people need to vomit just by watching somebody else.

Nothing is happening to them.

Maybe a less colorful example, better, is you're walking down the street and a leaf blows in your face.

You're startled by it, just a leaf.

But you can feel the changes in your body.

My first experience with this mind-body unity was many, many years ago.

I was married when I was very young.

And we went to Paris on a honeymoon.

And I was now 18, 19, going on 30.

So I had to be very sophisticated.