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Hatha Yoga: The Yogi Philosophy of Physical Well-Being1854
but adopt this mode of breathing. Such people must develop their chest
cavities if they value their lives. Colds may often be prevented by practicing
a little vigorous Complete Breathing whenever you feel that you are being
unduly exposed. When chilled, breathe vigorously a few minutes, and you
will feel a glow all over your body. Most colds can be cured by Complete
Breathing and partial fasting for a day.
The quality of the blood depends largely upon its proper oxygenation in
the lungs, and if it is under-oxygenated it becomes poor in quality and laden
with all sorts of impurities, and the system suffers from lack of nourishment
and often becomes actually poisoned by the waste products remaining
uneliminated in the blood. As the entire body, every organ and every part,
is dependent upon the blood for nourishment, impure blood must have
a serious effect upon the entire system. The remedy is plain—practice the
Yogi Complete Breath.
The stomach and other organs of nutrition suffer much from improper
breathing. Not only are they ill nourished by reason of the lack of oxygen, but
as the food must absorb oxygen from the blood and become oxygenated
before it can be digested and assimilated, it is readily seen how digestion and
assimilation is impaired by incorrect breathing. And whenever assimilation
is not normal, the system receives less and less nourishment, the appetite
fails, bodily vigor decreases, and energy diminishes, and the man withers
and declines. All from the lack of proper breathing.
Even the nervous system suffers from improper breathing, inasmuch as
the brain, the spinal cord, the nerve centers, and the nerves themselves,
when improperly nourished by means of the blood, become poor and
inefficient instruments for generating, storing and transmitting the nerve
currents. And improperly nourished they will become if sufficient oxygen
is not absorbed through the lungs. There is another aspect of the case
whereby the nerve currents themselves, or rather the force from which the
nerve currents spring, becomes lessened from want of proper breathing,
but this belongs to another phase of the subject which is treated of in other