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Two Essential Books on MindBody Communication for Healthy Longevity
Psychosocial (Langer) and Neuropsychological (Martinez) Investigations of Sustainable Wellness
A Paradigm Shift for Longevity
My extensive investigations of healthy centenarians in the Blue Zones and beyond, confirm what my colleague Ellen Langer, PhD has been researching and teaching at Harvard for over 40 years. If you want to live a long and healthy life, mindfulness is the main ingredient.
But you might be surprise to know that the way that Dr. Langer and I independently define mindfulness does not require meditation. It is rather a consciousness of curiosity and novelty learning in daily life. In my view, although meditation, which I practice daily, is centering, calming, and very beneficial for general wellness, it is not sufficient to achieve the mindfulness taught in The MindFul Body and The Mindbody Code books that I am introducing here.
What Dr. Langer found in her psychosocial research about the effects of context on health and the aging process, I independently observed in my neuropsychological and psychoneuroimmunological work with healthy centenarians. In fact, most centenarians I investigated don’t know how to meditate.
Meditation is a contemplative mindfulness bringing non-judgment and non-attachment awareness to…
