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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
there are two sides, positive and negative. When the right side is stronger then the positive element is strong. and vice versa. The process through which this is done is, first of all, the progress of the life-current. When it starts from the brain and goes to the right side of the body, that is, to the right lung, then to the heart, then to the left side and then to the brain, it goes in such a direction that the breath will naturally come out of the right nostril with greater force, and when the lite-current goes in the opposite direction the breath will come with greater force from the left nostril. We shall find by actual experiment in our own body that it is very seldom that we breathe through both nostrils with equal force. In this case the breath, or life-current, would be located in the middle channel, which is the vehicle of many occult forces. Oar rules also say that this positive side of the body has a peculiar meaning, and that the negative side has also a peculiar meaning. The physiological condition of the body is fit for a certain kind of acts. If we do the positive kind of acts in that condition in which the body is in a negative state, the result would be a failure and the act would be disagreeable and inbarmonious. The body, when in a negative condition, is fit for acts which require a passive condition, These two forces, while they are part of the same entity, have each of thein a different aspect. Both of them are only different sides of the same force; one may be very active, another very passive, but still
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