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On All Things Considered this week, there's another chance to hear Roy Jenkins and guests exploring the fashionable phenomenon of mindfulness.

Politicians in Parliament practise it, physicians prescribe it and businesses send their staff on courses to learn how to do it. Mindfulness crops up in all sorts of places these days. , but what actually is it? How do you practise it? What difference can it make?

And as a discipline with roots in ancient Buddhism and links with other traditions, to what extent does its current practice require any religious affiliation?