• improved response time and reflexes
• improvement in perceptiveness of hearing and
  other senses
• decreased anxiety
• more optimism, decreased depression
• greater self-awareness, self -actualisation and
  autonomy
• improved coping capabilities
• adjunct to psychotherapy
• reduced addiction, reliance upon drugs or alcohol
• improved sleep; more restful, less insomnia, and
  in time less sleep needed
• reduced aggression and criminal tendency
• improved I.Q, and learning capabilities
• greater efficiency and output and reduced stress
  at work
• better time management and improved concentration
  and memory
• ability to change undesired personality traits
  

Dr Craig Hassed is a General Practitioner and senior lecturer at the Monash University Department of General Practice.
His teaching, research and clinical interests include mindfulness-based stress management, mind-body medicine, holistic healthcare, health promotion and medical ethics. He also teaches in the cancer support programs at the Gawler Foundation, and takes courses at the Petrea King Quest for Life Centre. He writes regularly for medical journals particularly in Philosophy of Medicine and has published three books: New Frontiers in Medicine (Volumes I and 2) and Know Thyself on Mindfulness-based stress management. Craig has also been a regular commentator on the ABC.
Dr Hassed will be appearing as a keynote speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Happiness and its Causes, 14-15 June 2007, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.