[tigershark]

Exactly. And to paraphrase some other comment read in this thread: "It's 1000s years that people practice religion, so it must imply that it is good for them". Mindfulness or meditation is just the usual wave of religion or spiritualism or whatever you want to call it mimetized as something more exotic and powerful. The peculiar thing is that for the most part the self-professed atheist are the most fervent proponents of this. So maybe it is true that spirituality is an innate need of the human race...