Brian L Ackerman is a psychiatrist trained at Harvard Medical School with over 40 years of clinical experience. He is currently staff 2 community mental health centers as well as has a private practice in Rhode Island. He is holistically oriented and place a great deal on emphasis on teaching as an essential facet of therapy. The human being is the only living entity that has the capacity to be self-reflective, an evolutionary advantage that was given to us. Ironically, this capacity when utilized allows to become aware of how seldom with utilize this capacity to our advantage. At one of the community mental health centers he work, He is the Director of Meditation & Mindfulness Training and Services and in the staff training groups there as well as the therapy groups he runs he walks in with a model of a brain, and books and handouts of the part of the brain that gives every human being trouble: the amygdala and limbic system. He also does this in groups he runs at another mental health center to help substance abusers deal with a problem that underlies their drug use, which is their impulsivity. Mindfulness, allows us to become aware that every human being has a part of the brain that presses them to think, feel and act in ways that undermine their well-being. Mindfulness empowers us to learn how to utilize the best parts of our brains to come to reckon with the worst parts. He has found this approach captures the curiosity of most everyone, and approaches ‘in-sight’ at a different level. first learn to see how every brain works, how every brain is prone to fight or flight, how every brain has evolved with layers of more highly developed neocortex superimposed on very primitive brain tissue.