road to excretion and nutrition is through the physical breath. It is a new light on the secrets of the self to find that there are two avenues of sustenance by which the race man feeds himself, on through food and the other through breathing. Until man knows how to awaken the nutrition centers with his breath and make the breath-call the stimulus to which his cells respond with their immediate release of vital energy, he must take the old man's method and waken them through food particles brought to their nuclei from food passed into his stomach.
With normal lungs we breathe naturally a certain number of breaths a moment, with definite inspiratory and expiratory rhythm. This air, coming from without, is laden with the new substance which is to be taken into the blood current through the exchange made in the blood-vessels of the lungs. The lungs release, in expiration, all the finer waste products of the body, they pass out in the form of carbon dioxide gas and are replaced by oxygen in the inspiratory act.
Inhalation and expiration are the tidal waves of the physical body and the tide rises, falls, falls and rises, just as regularly as the tide of the sea in its long, rhythmical roll.
When we shorten the beat between, or when our expiration and inspiration halt the normal pulse beat of our body, we gather debris so dense that after a while we have no space for incoming breath and no strength to empty our already overcharged physical spaces.
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