SCIENCE OF BREATH, 



entirely exhaled, relax the chest and abdomen. A little 

 practice will render tHis part of the exercise easy, and th? 

 movement once acquired will be afterwards performed 

 almost automatically. 



It will be seen that by this method of breathing aH 

 parts of the respiratory apparatus is brought into action, 

 and all parts of the lungs, including the most remote air 

 cells, are exercised. Th&_qhest_^ cavity, .is..exgadgd_in_jall 

 directions. You will also notice that the Complete Breath 

 is really a combination of Low, Mid and High Breaths- 

 succeeding each other rapidly in the order given, in such 

 a manner as to form one uniform, continuous, complete 

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You will find it quite a help to you if you will practice 

 this breath before a large mirror, placing the hands lightly 

 over the abdomen so that you may feel the movements. 

 At the end of the inhalation, it is well to occasionally 

 slightly elevate the shoulders, thus raising the collarbone 

 and allowing the air to pass freely into the small upper 

 lobe of the right lung, which place is sometimes the breed- 

 ing place of tuberculosis. , f S1 f} 3u>y 



At the beginning of practice, you may have more or 

 less trouble in acquiring the Complete Breath, but a little 

 practice will make perfect, and when you have once 

 acquired it you will never williiigly return to the o)d 

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