Tory MP who has hour-long baths claims £662 water bill on expenses

Tim Loughton’s parliamentary accounts show he has been spending up to £50 a month on Thames Water supply

‘Way ahead of the curve’: UK hosts first summit on mindful politics

Ministers to meditate with politicians from Israel, Sri Lanka and Sweden as part of event exploring benefits of mindfulness

Michael Acton Smith: ‘We want to show meditation is common sense’

Stress led the creator of Moshi Monsters to meditation and to create new app Calm, which he aims to make the biggest brand in mental fitness

How yoga and meditation can help social care workers deal with trauma

Dedicating time to improving workers’ wellbeing, through meditative and mindful practices, could vastly benefit patient care

Sales of mind, body, spirit books boom in UK amid ‘mindfulness mega-trend’

While fewer titles are selling in other genres, reading that offers a path to spiritual growth has risen 13% in 2017

Zen and the art of family maintenance – lessons from the bestselling Buddhist monk

Haemin Sunim says a happy relationship and contented children are within reach for us all – if we could just slow down and pay attention to each other

Ruby Wax: ‘I wanted to find a method to defuse my depression’

The comedian and mental-health campaigner explains how realising that everyone feels crazy led to writing A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

Eastern sanctuary: a mindfulness weekend in Norfolk

A suitably slow-paced yoga and mindfulness weekend is revelatory – even the ‘weird’ bit about rebooting tired minds and bodies through silence

Work has put my name down for a mindfulness course

Then I tell them what I’ve been through in the past 12 months …

Five of the best meditation apps

Boost your mindfulness and try to rise above digital distractions with these apps to carve out time for peaceful reflection