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Dr. Andra Smith | Exploring Mindfulness Through Neuroscience

We all have stress and that isn’t going to change. How we manage that stress is under our control. Mindfulness can help. Skeptical? What if mindfulness could help enhance your memory, so that you don't forget where you park your car at the mall? What if mindfulness could improve your concentration, so you aren't thinking about what's for supper while reading a book, forcing you to read that page again? What if physiologically, you could go to sleep at night without the rat race of thoughts going on in your head? This talk will provide the neuroscience evidence to demonstrate how mindfulness can do all of this. Through a combination of empirical and experiential examples, this talk will demonstrate the power of our brains to control our thoughts, emotions and behaviour: one mindful breath at a time.