When I published my posts about mental health and wellbeing, I did not include either breathing or music into the 10 key areas (of pillars) of mental wellbeing. I did, nonetheless, consider music (and music therapy) in the context of pleasurable activities (key area or pillar no 10). But how about breathing? On average, we breathe 16 times a minute, or 23,000 times a day. Over a lifetime, we take hundreds of millions of breaths. Yet, we barely think about breathing. Yoga (key area no 3), meditation and mindfulness (key area no 6) are practices that help bring our attention to our breathing. Deep breathing is actually an effective stress…