Jessica Kotik

Jessica's talk is going to discuss the use of mindfulness meditation (a meditation technique which has you focus your attention on being in the moment) to improve well-being and academic success. Jessica believes this will fit in well with the theme as mindfulness meditation is a small technique that can be used as frequently or infrequently as one wishes, and still produces major benefits. Mindfulness meditation is a relatively new area of study in Psychology (only being around for about 35 years), yet it is producing such promising results such as an increase in anxiety, improvement in general well-being, decrease in negative emotions and feelings, and many other benefits. But there is so much potential for this technique as it is still being studied and we are learning more and more in the field.