Dr. Ellen Langer

So not doing it, trying, when you're thinking and feeling, not nearly as good as just the doing.

So it goes through lots of ways where, in fact, there's a world that's so much better than the world most people experience.

I went to visit a friend many years ago who had a very bad case of cancer, and I said, Eva, how are you?

She said, they told me my cancer's in remission.

At that moment, I thought, well, wait a second.

If I had the very same test

They probably tell me I don't have cancer.

Why is it I don't have it, but she has it in remission?

Now, if you think it's in remission, you're still stressed.

Hopefully it doesn't come back.

Exactly.

If you're cured, you don't have that stress.

Interesting.

Yeah.

And so, again, remission is better than it being active, but not nearly as good as it being cured.

Now, when you have a cold and the cold goes away, you don't see yourself as in remission.

See, it's gone.

And then if you get a cold, as soon as a brand new cold, and it can be the same thing for cancer.

In some way, the cancer is...

All cancer bears something in relationship to each other or else we wouldn't call it by the same name.