The Pausecast Ep. 33 Ellen Langer

In This Episode Ellen Langer shares… - An experiential active noticing pause led by Dr. Langer - What active noticing is, and how it can help you manage stress or get out of overwhelm - Difference between defensive pessimism and mindful optimism is, and how it can help you cope with uncertainty - The 2 things about stress everyone should know - How being hopeful means one is already negative - Why we should all be focused on work life integration, and not work life balance - Why play and engaging needs to happen more - What we can learn from copulating rats, The Simpsons, and how the mind defaults to think About Dr. Ellen Langer - Dr. Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles written for general and academic readers on mindfulness for over 35 years. Her best selling books include Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Her most most recent book is The Art of Noticing which pairs one-liners culled from her research with her original paintings. She has also edited the Wiley Mindfulness Handbook, an anthology on mindfulness in which leading researchers integrate work derived from her western scientific theoretical base of mindfulness with research on eastern derived forms of meditation. Dr. Langer has been described as the “mother of mindfulness” and has written extensively on the illusion of control, mindful aging, stress, decision-making, and health. Among other honors, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Distinguished Scientist Awards, the World Congress Award, the NYU Alumni Achievement Award, and the Staats award for Unifying Psychology. Most recently she received the Liberty Science Genius Award. LINKS: For more info on Dr. Langer or to have Ellen speak at your next event, contact her at https://www.ellenlanger.com/ About Rachael O'Meara Rachael O’Meara is a transformation leadership and mid-career coach who empowers overwhelmed, successful women to take back their lives and live a fulfilling, thriving life. She created The Pausecast to help listeners be more self-aware as they learn how to intentionally shift their behavior and live purposeful, empowered lives every day. For the past twelve years, Rachael's experience in sales and client services at Google has helped her have a pulse on what it takes to be a successful and thriving transformational leader. ​Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com and the TEDx stage in 2019. Rachael completed her MA in Transformational Leadership & Coaching in July 2020. __________________________ Are you seriously done with feeling overwhelmed? Talk to me 1:1 in a 30m "Thriving Breakthrough Session" and how I might be able to help: bit.ly/pausegift