Mindfulness with Dr Rich Panico

A talk by Dr Rich Panico on what “mindfulness” truly entails and if it's a good fit for YOUR life. Or, conversely, can you find a way to learn a useful form of mindfulness that meets you where you are these days and takes into account who you currently are and the “you” that you are shooting for. This talk covers:
1. the scientific support and criticisms of mindfulness
2. Potential benefits for individuals and misconceptions relating to mindfulness
3. Definitions of mindfulness
4. What does mindfulness have to do with creativity
5. Where to start with a contemplative practice.
Rich Panico is a physician and board certified Psychiatrist who recently retired from medicine after 48 years of clinical practice. In addition he is a practitioner of meditation and classical yoga which he learned from his mother and brothers around 1966. Dr Panico practiced medicine in a variety of private and public settings including as medical director of the central intake unit of the Ga. Department of Human Resources A&D unit, medical director of Advantage Behavioral Health Systems, division chief of psychiatry at Athens Regional Medical Center, and founder, and medical director of the Athens Regional Mind Body Institute. He also was an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Medical College of Georgia and taught in both the pharmacology and biochemistry department at UGA. The last 20 years of his practice he utilized mindfulness meditation, therapeutic yoga and lifestyle interventions in the treatment of patients with chronic medical conditions and concurrent psychiatric disorders who were treatment failures or had achieved partial benefit from standard treatment.