Stressed out by Brexit, MPs try meditation

In the shadow of London's Big Ben, members of parliament weary of the endless commotion over Brexit head into a chimney-stacked building to meditate and recharge.

The stressed out MPs do not fold themselves into the lotus position on yoga mats but instead sit at desks and breathe inside polished offices.

And their special instructors come from a centre in Oxford that promotes "mindfulness" for dealing with mental strain.

"It's basically giving you a technique to be able to settle and, you know, pause and get that sense of where you are," Nic Dakin, an MP from England's industrial north, said in a phone interview.

"It might only take five minutes or it might take 30."
The centre's mission statement sets out to achieve "a world without the devastating effects of depression, where mindfulness enables people to live with awareness, wisdom and compassion."
So what exactly is mindfulness?