AARP Washington State Podcast

Bob Roth is one of the most sought after meditation teachers in the country. He's a leading authority on Transcendental Meditation, having taught celebrities such as Oprah, Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as thousands of veterans, schoolchildren, prisoners and just regular people. He visited Seattle in his role as head of the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes TM program...

Are older people happier? Can the last third of our lives be our best years, both for ourselves and for contribution to society? Dr. Laura Carstensen says yes! Dr. Carstensen is the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity at Stanford University. She maintains that the doubling of our lifespans over the past century could be the greatest cultural achievement in human history. But we'v...

Do you want to be happier? Gretchen Rubin is a researcher and best-selling author, best known for the book "The Happiness Project". In this episode, we talk about concrete steps you can take now to be happier, at any age. One day on a bus, Gretchen realized that although she had everything she needed to be satisfied with her life, and she wasn't really unhappy, she certainly wasn't happy. She laun...