CHAPTER VIII
The Psychology of the Breath
The life of the body is the blood, and the life of the blood is the breath. “It is the breath of the Almighty which gives us Life.”
There are many who seek to be one with all higher laws and who at the same time fail to connect with the first important law,–conscious breathing.
We all breathe involuntarily as well as voluntarily,–if it depended on our own consciousness to establish the rhythm of normal breathing, we would pass out very quickly. When we see the flagrant violations of nature’s law of breath we cannot help wondering at the long suffering endurance of the defrauded body and the marvelous compensation nature laboriously makes.
We do not sin away our day of grace all at once. Disease of body, mind and soul is not a thing of a moment’s birth, but is the inevitable reaction of a long violation of the natural adjustments of true being.
The overloaded vital centers, on all planes, stagger on under the increasing strain thrown on them through ignorance and actual spiritual stagnation.
It has taken centuries to know that the direct
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