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[ Some rules of Physical Exercises
natural scenery, is the best, easiest, most popular and most useful of all the forms of exercises. The Doctors say while taking a walk, leave your hands at ease, let your limbs move freely in their natural way, do not stop your breath, draw breath through nose freely in a natural way, breathe through nose and never through mouth, for drawing breath through mouth is drawing death nearer.
SOME RULES FOR PRACTISING PHYSICAL EXERCISES (AS LAID DOWN BY SWAMI
SHIVANADAJI VARUDA.) (1) Pure light, air and cleanliness are the chief requisites for a gyammasium (2) exercise is taken twice in a day; morning exercise recreates energy and interst for day's work; evening exercise avoids bad dreams and produces sound sleep. (3) Sweat is very injurious, it causes disease in the body, therefore it must be immediately wiped off (4) Only useful and natural course is to be followed while practising an exercise. Bending head downwards renders a a man mad or blind or shortens his life. Therefore the rule is that head and chest must be kept up erect. ( 5 ) During exercise breath should never be drawn through mouth, but it may be given off when one feels fatigued. For breathing air through mouth weakens lungs and causes various kinds of diseases. (6) Air should be both inhaled and exhaled slowly through nose only. (7) It is most harmful to sit down just after taking an exercise. (8) Generally to make water after an exercise is not bad, for it removes extra heat from the body and thus makes the body and the mind healthy and peaceful. (9) Energy and ability are also to be taken into consideration before one begins to take exercise,
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