Mindfulness

The groundbreaking work of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard University introduced the idea of mindfulness to the Western world and cemented its place as a powerful tool for living in our present moment. Since then, it has been applied to everything from health to business to aging and education, even being adapted as a psychological assessment (known as the Langer Mindfulness Scale). In her introduction to this 25th anniversary edition, Dr. Langer outlines some of these exciting applications and suggests those still to come.