Yes. As a recovering sysadmin, I think of mindfulness as creating monitoring/observability for my own self. It was weird to realize that I had a better idea what was going on with servers half-way across the world than with my own emotions [1]. Meditation and other mindfulness practices have been hugely beneficial.

[1] If that rings a bell, consider taking this self-test: http://www.alexithymia.us/test.html