Social Anxiety disorder (SAD) affects roughly 12% of us at least at some point during our life. Our next speaker, Philippe Goldin, is studying the effects of Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) aka meditation on social anxiety.

“The idea is that if a person has the psychological flexibility to shift freely from one mode of thinking to another mode, then that is a sign of health,” said Goldin. “It’s when we get stuck in certain thinking patterns that our beliefs become maladaptive.”

Specifically, the MBSR proved effective silencing the inner critic…you …