In the Christian tradition, mindfulness is an apathetic practice. The other thing you can do is to focus your thoughts on something in particular. So part of my first book, my first dissertation was on middle class spokes in London. They were just trying to corral their imagination so that their imagination sort of overrode the negative shaming, mean and difficult thoughts.

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