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Just in time for Mental Health Month, we want to report on our progress using Dr. John M. Kennedy’s B.R.E.A.T.H.E. technique, which we blogged about here in this interview with Dr. Kennedy. We have been looking for a simple, really easy to use stress reliever that requires no special equipment or special skills or setting. We are big believers in exercise, but sometimes time limitations or weather or simply exhaustion get in the way.

So after reading Dr. Kennedy’s book, The 15 Minute Heart Cure, and listening to his CD almost every evening since the end of March, we can honestly say it has made a profound difference in our lives. It helps us wind down at the end of the day and get a good night’s sleep. We also use it before meetings, interviews, and other potentially stressful events. You don’t have to have a heart condition to use this enjoyable breathing and visualization technique though as Dr. Kennedy says, it puts the heart in an “idling” mode which gives it a rest. We really feel it happening almost immediately.

We have implemented visualization and breathing techniques in the past with anxious or stressed or depressed patients in clinical settings and we really appreciate the simplicity and direct approach of B.R.E.A.T.H.E. I am planning on trying a modified version with patients in recovery from trauma, addiction, and mental illness and will let you know the responses, though they will be anecdotal.

Meanwhile, if you want to learn more, you can go to Dr. Kennedy’s web site.

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