How to Breathe with Ease

That a proper mental attitude towards respiration is at once inculcated, so that each and every respiratory act in the practice of the exercises is the direct result of volition, the primary, secondary, and other movements necessary to the proper performance of such act having first been definitely indicated to the pupil.

respiratory re-education.

That where the human machinery is concerned Nature does not work in parts, but treats everything as a whole.

The chief peculiarities or defects may be broadly indicated as: — 1. An incorrect mental attitude towards the respiratory act. 2. Lack of control over, and improper and inadequate use of, the component parts of the different mechanisms of the body, limbs, and nervous system. 3. Incorrect pose of the body and chest poise, and therefrom consequent de

There is a rapid clearing of the skin, the white face becoming a natural colour, and a reduction of fat in the obese by its being burnt off with the extra oxygen supply.

if the thorax is expanded correctly the lungs will at once be filled with air by atmospheric pressure, exactly as a pair of bellows is filled when the handles are pulled apart.

Over time he developed the basic principles for breathing: Head is tilted slightly forward, and upward. Neck is free and relaxed Shoulders relax downward Shoulders widen Back lengthens On the outbreath especially concentrate on allowing the above 5 points to happen The diaphragm may naturally sink on the inhale as your body assumes the natural post

He found that he would do three things differently when reciting, his head would tilt backwards, he would depress his larynx (voicebox), and he would suck in breath to make a kind of gasping sound. When he figured out how to get his head to go forward and up, so that it was as if a string was pulling the head up from it crown, he found he no longer

The artificial conditions of modern civilized life, among which is comparative lack of free exercise in the open air, are conducive to the inadequate use of breathing power.