Women's Network August 2019 | Page 54

mindfulness is a SUPER POWER Researchers surveyed 2,000 participants in Canada and studied the brain activity of 112 others using electroencephalograms. The results showed that the average human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000 (or around the time the mobile revolution began), to just eight seconds. Meanwhile, goldfish are believed to have an attention span of nine seconds! We have a distraction epidemic, says Lorraine Sebastian. 54 Women’s Network Magazine