Breathing from the Science of Being Well

It is a crucial function that has to be performed to keep people alive. While we may go days without eating or drinking, we can only go a short time without breathing. It is involuntary to breathe, but the process, and supply of suitable circumstances, is under human control. Man will continue to breathe involuntarily, but he can deliberately control what he breathes, and how deeply and completely he breathes; and he can control the physical mechanism as he sees fit.

The physical equipment utilized in the act must be maintained in excellent condition for optimal breathing. You must keep your spine relatively straight while maintaining supple muscles in your chest. If your shoulders are slumped and your chest is collapsed, you cannot properly inhale. Taking up a little stoop or carrying modest weights all day may cause you to have sunken chests.

Most labor pulls the shoulders forward, curves the spine, and flattens the chest; if the chest is too flattened, deep breathing is nearly difficult, and complete health is no longer attainable.

Stooping has been counteracted by inventing various gymnastic exercises, including hanging by the hands from a swing or trapeze bar, or sitting on a chair with the feet beneath some heavy object and bending backward till the head hits the floor. Very few individuals will follow these methods long enough or often enough to develop any significant strength or muscle. Taking health exercises is quite a strain, and there is a lot easier and more natural approach.

We recommend keeping oneself upright and breathing deeply. Think of yourself as a wonderful person, and when it comes to mind, make sure you naturally expand your chest, throw back your shoulders, and “straighten up.” Whenever you do this, gradually inhale until you have filled your lungs to their maximum capacity; “crowd in” all the air you can; and while holding your breath, pull your back and extend your chest at the same time. Let the air go.

To train the chest and maintain it flexible, do this one exercise alone. Straighten up; breathe full; extend your chest and spine, and exhale. You must practice this exercise in-season and out of-season, at all times and in all locations, until you develop a habit of doing it. When you go outside, breathe. When you think about yourself and your situation, BREATHE. Breathe when you are reminded of the issue. Don’t just sleep, breathe! The moment you think of it, straighten up and BREATHE. When you walk to and from work, don’t just do the exercise; do the whole thing; you’ll keep it up because it’ll be fun, not for the purpose of your health.

Never, or do not take, health activities to improve your health. Recognizing illness as a current reality or as a potential is exactly what you ought not do. People who exercise often for their health are constantly considering illness. Keeping your spine straight and powerful is as important as keeping your face clean. You should maintain your spine straight, and your chest full and flexible since being unkempt indicates low quality. [N]Do it while ignoring illness, if you can. If you are straight, your breathing will take care of itself. Health exercise issues will be discussed again in a later chapter.

However, you must breathe air. It seems to be the will of nature that the lungs should be filled with clean, regular oxygen, not excessively polluted by other gases or dirt. Living or working in an environment where the air is not suitable to breathe is unnecessary. Move, or quit your work if the air is contaminated; you may practice the techniques provided in the next volume of this series, which is titled “THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH.” If no one will agree to work in poor air, businesses will ensure that work areas are well-ventilated. Churches and theaters are the worst places to breathe. Next to this is sewage gas and the effluvia of rotting objects. It is possible to tolerate dirty air better than any of them. Many organic particles, excluding food particles, are expelled from the lungs; gases, however, enter the blood.

Other than food, I am speaking advisedly. Air is mostly a meal. That’s because it’s the most ‘living’ item we ingest. Every breath contains millions of microorganisms, of which many are ingested. These meals’ aromas (soil, grass, tree, flower, plant, and cooking food smells) are so diluted that they are absorbed straight into the blood and don’t need digestion. because life itself permeates the whole environment Remain mindful of your breathing anytime you think of it, and remind yourself that you are breathing life into yourself. See to it that you do not breathe air that contains harmful gases, and that you do not breathe recycled air.

That is all there is to taking good breaths. Breathe fresh, clean air, appreciating with gratefulness the fact that you breathe in Eternal Life. That is simple; and when you are through, offer thanks to God that you’ve mastered this skill.