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The spiritual parallel is to expel moral impurities, breathe in love, respect for life, assimilating the love by acting to other living beings in a useful and helpful way.
The painful breathing processes taught by some schools for producing psychic. development are not desirable or useful. Right life will produce right breathing, not vice-versa. Immoral life vitiates the breathing.
Examination should be made to see through which nostril the breath goes up with most force and quantity; then, to even them up, the up-breath should be taken through the weakest and expelled through the strongest side. In passive persons the left nostril will be used the most in breathing, and in positive persons the right nostril: the two should be equally balanced.
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