#ellen langer

Two experiments that show our perception of time literally shapes how our bodies behave, conducted by Harvard Psychology Prof Ellen Langer

Experiment 1: Blood sugar in diabetics changed based on perceived time. The clock was manipulated to run faster, slower, or at a normal speed, and their blood sugar levels reacted to the time shown by that clock, not the actual time.

Experiment 2: Wounds healed faster or slower depending on the clock speed people watched. Again, healing followed perceived time, not real time.

Wild, right?

The wisdom of woo-woo

“I am what I pay attention to. I literally surrender my life force to it.”—Becca Brewer In the corner of my living room sits a small black rock given to me by a bare-chested medicine man from the Cook Islands. “Pa,” as he is known, plucked it out of a jungle river in the South Pacific Island, handed it to me and said, “If you put this in the north corner of your living room, you’ll become a…

¿Por qué importan los porqués?

Cuentan en los blogs de crianza que la etapa del “¿por qué?” en los niños se sitúa entre los 2 y 4 años. En mi casa se prolongó hasta bien entrados los 7 y ahora que los mayores rozan la decena, se ha instalado con nosotros una temible variante:  “Y esto, ¿por qué lo tengo que hacer yo?”. Y los padres pensamos que un “porque lo digo yo” no valdrá de nada. O puede que sí.  

Siendo niños…

What if- just for a little while today we gave up all that constant evaluation of everything, most of all, our own sweet selves.

Evaluation, while it does have an eventual place under certain conditions, is generally just a form of death in which we give up our choice.

Because if we decide ahead of time whether something is either “good, bad, friendly or mean,” we eliminated all choice and are…