Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body With the #1 Harvard Psychologist
episodePreviously titled “#1 Harvard Psychologist: Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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How can our mindset change our physical health?
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I'm going to say something that might sound too good to be true, but I want you to stick with me. What if the way that you think could change your physical health and improve how you feel how you deal with stress. What if a simple shift in your mindset would boost your energy, enhance recovery, charge your immune system, make you heal faster, even slow down the aging process? Well, Dr. Ellen Langer is here, and holy cow, she says, you better believe it can. She's the pioneering Harvard professor. who says, after 50 years of research, it is very clear your body follows what your mind believes. And look, feel free to bring all the skepticism you want.
Dr. Langer is unshakable.
What does Dr. Langer's research say about mindfulness?
She's going to convince you that this is true because she has the science. Your mind isn't just along for the ride, it's driving the car. And look, this research, this isn't just sitting around in some journal collecting dust. It's having a profound effect on people around the world just like you. You are so much more powerful than you know. And today, Dr. Langer is going to teach you how to use your mind to heal your body and give yourself the gift of a happier, healthy life from the inside out.
Olipa kerran hyvä haltija, joka loihti taikasauvallaan herkullisen jouluaterjan kaikille metsän asukeille. Siinä oli tarjolla jos jonkinmoista herkkua. Oli rosollia, silakkaa, kinkkua, laatikoita, graavattua lohta ja... Jaha, joo, tämähän ei ollutkaan joulusatu. Tämähän olikin ostoslista.
What are the surprising results from the elderly men's study?
Ja se on pitkä. No, onneksi kaikki ainekset herkulliseen jouluun saat. S-Marketista. Joulu on ruokaa. S-Market.
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. It's always such an honor to be together and to spend this time with you. And if you're a new listener or you're here because somebody shared this episode with you, I just want to take a sec and personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family. Today, you're going to learn how to use your mind to heal your body based on 50 years of groundbreaking research done by a legendary professor at Harvard. Dr. Ellen Langer is one of the most respected psychology professors in the world. She earned her PhD from Yale, and she was the first female professor ever tenured in the psychology department at Harvard. Dr. Langer is the author of 12 books, including her latest bestseller, The Mindful Body, Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health.
Dr. Langer's groundbreaking work has also earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Distinguished Scientist Awards, the Liberty Science Genius Award, and some of the highest honors in psychology. She'll tell you that mindfulness is medicine, and she's here today to teach you how to unlock the power of your thoughts to heal your body. The legend. Dr. Ellen Langer, welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast.
Thanks for having me.
I am so thrilled you're here. I'm just, I can't wait to get into this. And I guess where I want to start is the person who is with us right now has made time, they have no time, but they've made time to be here with you, Dr. Langer, to learn from you.
How can beliefs influence recovery from illness?
What might change about their life
Once you understand what I mean by mindfulness and how easy it is, it has nothing to do with meditation. No matter what you're doing, whether you're doing a podcast, reading, eating, taking care of a child, playing tennis, you're doing it mindfully or mindlessly. And the consequences of being in one state of mind or the other are enormous. Everything changes. I had this slide when I used to give these lectures, as I still do, and I say on the slide, virtually all of our problems, whether personal, interpersonal, professional, global, are the direct or indirect consequences of our mindlessness. Now, it's interesting because then I tell them, just among us and the other 10 million people I've said this to, I really mean all.
So that's enormous, right? I'm saying all of our problems are a result of our mindlessness. So if we're able to get people to understand how easy it is to change their mind, to become more mindful, whatever ails them should dissipate.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How can our mindset change our physical health?
0:00–0:55
2
What does Dr. Langer's research say about mindfulness?
0:55–1:49
3
What are the surprising results from the elderly men's study?
1:49–3:31
4
How can beliefs influence recovery from illness?
3:31–5:00
5
What impact does language have on our health perceptions?
5:00–6:07
6
How does mindset affect stress and decision-making?
6:07–7:37
7
What strategies can we use to become more mindful?
7:37–8:49
8
How can we apply the mind-body connection in daily life?
8:49–1:20:16
Speakers
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