In the past few years we've heard a lot about mindfulness, the value of being present, and noticing all the little things you can see and hear and feel and smell. It it does seem that mindfulness has definite value, for anxiety and stress and blood pressure, it's just a question of how much value, depending on who you hear from.
There's something else about mindfulness says Dr Alex Burgoyne, a cognitive neuroscientist with the Attention & Working Memory Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.