Dr. Ellen Langer

Okay, so I had made myself sick.

Now we go to my mother who had breast cancer and the cancer had metastasized to her pancreas.

That's the end game.

Okay, so the medical world was no longer treating her.

She became crippled because they weren't gonna exercise her limbs, which made sense if you assume she was gonna die.

And then magically,

the cancer was totally gone.

So somehow I made myself sick, she made herself well.

And of course, during those times, I hadn't yet conceived of mind-body unity.

But I had another story that was kind of fun.

I think I tell it in the Mindful Body, but I haven't told it on a podcast before.

So when I was about, I guess I was 14, I had a friend and I lived in Westchester and I had a friend who lived in the Bronx and she was 15 or 16.

So she was in charge because she was the older woman.

And I would go visit her every Saturday.

And every Saturday, for whatever reason,

We'd go and have, she would have a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.

Now, I was always on a diet, so I never had it.

Nevertheless, while she was eating, I was eating it with her in my mind.

And I swear to you, Mel.

that when she was finished, I was full.