Activities of the Macrocosm 171 



Exhaustion is due entirely to the disordered 

 state of the human battery, and in this condition all 

 organic functions are lowered in tone and quickly 

 reflect that disorder. Neither lungs, skin, nor 

 kidneys have sufficient energy to eliminate the rap- 

 idly accumulating wastes; hence vital centers be- 

 come clogged, and serious disease sets in wherever 

 the physical structure is weakest. The first need 

 at such times is to renew the battery and restore 

 the balance of the disordered currents of vital 

 force; and the media for doing this breathing 

 exercises is so simple, so easy to apply, that the 

 most helpless invalid, if the mind be sane and 

 capable of directing, can employ it for regenerat- 

 ing the whole being. Both nerve and blood cir- 

 culation and thereby all functions are stim- 

 ulated more by this method than by any possible 

 physical culture exercises. 



And here a caution is timely: There is a vast 

 difference in attempting to exercise " healing " 

 power from without, as when denying disease and 

 pain, and working from within outward in affirma- 

 tion of the desired condition. The resulting 

 atomic vibrations and the potencies involved are 

 very different. The one is a species of constraint, 

 the other is free, upward guidance. 



We must strive for poise and tranquillity, for 

 repose and confidence; which, manifesting them- 



