SCIENCE O* BREATH. 



be easily performed. It may be practiced at any time, 



but is specially recommended when one feels the instinct 



most strongly, at which time the reproductive energy !i 



[manifesting and may be most easily transmuted for re- 



kenerative purposes. The exercise is as follows: 



Keep the mind fixed on the idea of Energy, and away 

 from ordinary sexual thoughts or imaginings. If these 

 thoughts come into the mind do not be discouraged, but 

 regard them as manifestations of a force which you intend 

 using for the purposes of strengthening the body and mind. 

 ,Lie passively or sit erect, and fix your mind on the idea 

 uf drawing the reproductive energy upward to the Solar 

 Plexus, where it will be transmuted and stored away as a 

 reserve force of vital energy. Then breathe rhythmically, 

 forming the mental iirage of drawing up the reproductive 

 t-nergy with each inhalation. With each inhalation make 

 a command of the Will that the energy be di-awn upward 

 from the reproductive organization to the Solar Plexus. 

 If the rhythm is fairly established and the menta! image 

 is clear, you will be conscious of the upward passage of 

 the energy, and will feel its stimulating effect. If you de- 

 sire an increase in mental force, you may draw it up to 

 the brain instead of to the Solar Pie ~us, by giving the 

 mental couimand and holding the m< ital image of the 

 transmission to the brain. 



The man or woman doing mental creative work, or bodily 

 creative work, will be able to use this creative energy in 

 iheir work by following the above exercise, drawing up 

 the energy with the inhalation and sending it forth with 

 the exhalation. In this last form of exercise, only such 

 portions as are needed in the work will pass into the work 

 being done, the balance remaining stored up in the Solar 

 Plexus. 



You will understand, of course, that it is not the repro 

 iuctive fluids which are drawn up and used, but the ethenl 

 pranic energy which animates the latter, the soul of tht 

 reproductive organism, as it were. It is usual to allot* 

 the nead to bend forward easily and naturally during th 

 transmuting exercise. 



