Can anyone explain what is that thing called Mindfulness?

This podcast has been inspired by a client who told me, “I’d like to start practicing mindfulness in our sessions. It’s so fashionable nowadays that I’m intrigued”. I’m telling you this with a broad smile and sparkling eyes because when my clients ask me to dedicate some part of their sessions to Mindfulness, it makes my day. I’d also like to underscore or highlight my client’s words, “mindfulness, which is so fashionable”. It is clear that my client meant that Mindfulness is becoming more and more well known these days. Nevertheless, Mindfulness is a millenary practice that has its origins in Buddhism, Zen, Yoga, and Hinduism. In the west, mindfulness became super popular because it was applied within a stress reduction program, which has been a benchmark of mind-body medicine recognized by the National Institute of Health of the USA and by Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology, which is the one I have studied thoroughly and the one I commune with.