methods never gave us. This new method is not alone the normal muscle function, but an almost abnormal action, brought about through tension and release. A muscle used and released will keep normal, an unused muscle atrophies and and an overused muscle hypertrophies. There is a normal use and disease which must be maintained of a weak, dying flesh body results.
In the life of our modern civilization the ordinary individual does not use more than two-thirds of his muscular system, nor does he use one-third of his lung space. A few important muscles are made to do all the work, the rest lie dormant or, at the best, try to urge themselves upon the attention through lameness, weakness or stiffness.
Our flesh body is our personality, and our personality is our presentation card; and by it the world reads the story of our death or our abundant life.
Not many people are really proud of their personality; we outgrow the states of mind that build it; and, when we have outgrown anything, nothing connected with it is as beautiful as our new desire.
The old world never knew that we could change our personality just as fast as we can change our desires and that when we have outgrown a situation or an idea, we can take off the old face and form which fitted them, and grow new ones just as easily as a lobster grows a new claw.
With fasting, breathing, thinking, tensing we
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