By Christine Sempetrean Smith
Time to take a minute to breathe. Exhale. Now breathe again. Today you’ve breathed for five minutes, taken 35 breaths, with an average heart rate of 66 BPM. Congratulations!
Breathe again?
Those of us in the field of mental health and addiction recovery have known for years — through personal experience and observation — that mindfulness practice is an incredibly powerful tool for healing. Now science is backing that up, unquestionably.