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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
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while in the chest breathing only one part moves, and the other remains uearly motionless. I had never heard of these different kinds of breathing till I came to this country. When I came first to this country I stopped for a day at Niagara Falls, and there were other Hindus in the party, and we were seen there by the clerk of the a newspaper reporter, who went to hotel and got some information about us, after which he wrote of us as peculiar beings, stating that as if we had peculiar ways of eating and sleeping, Hindus slept with their heads down, or in some such unnatural way as that. The principal rule which is to be observed in breathing is first to breathe deeply and and second to breathe rhythmically. Certainly we cannot breathe rhythmically during the whole day; we have many other duties, to perform and cannnot always be counting, one, two, three, four; therefore we say that this should be done only for about five minutes each day, and that is sufficient; and as this peculiar system of breathing, which is only resorted to as a matter of exercise, is really for the purpose of strengthening the moral as well as the physical nature, the time is important. There is a rule among the Hindus that in any act of a spirual naiure nothing of the physical nature should interfere, even so far as the physical nature is concerned, certain functions continue of the body ought not to when other functions are going on. The stomach ought not to be filled with anything when we want to breathe rhyth
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