ing entails. There are not ten persons out of twelve whom one can command to breathe the true vibratory breath, who can do it for ten minutes without giddiness, nausea or even a complete fainting collapse.
This residual air is, in our new understanding, the seat of all conquest and the source of all limitation. It must be emptied thoroughly if it has lost the normal law of exchange; there is no use trying to breathe on an already over-inflated lung space, it must be emptied consciously to the very last bit of breath which can be expelled, then inhalation will be easy and will bring results.
There are many persons who breathe and breathe, but do not get results in their flesh, simply because the normal exchange is not made within the pulmonary vessels; the cells in the passing blood stream in the lungs are so saturated with the narcotic of the carbon gas that they do not release in time to catch the oxygen as it enters, this is why long, deep respirations,–holding the inspired breath–imperative in most cases. The new oxygenated breath, held long enough, will force the sluggish cells to release; and with the next exhalation, the gas in the blood.
Twenty-five per cent more oxygen in the blood current will cure a headache, set indigestion at rest, prevent colds or weariness and give new inspiration and feeling to mind and body.
The union of conscious breathing and fasting makes the very quickest exchange possible.
[ 63 ]
