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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
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from the light which can be seen in the way I have described, or by the vibrations, which ether is predominant and in which we are deficient, and can by concentration make that ethe: predominant. The two centres of the body, the heart and the brain, send out many other powers; the upper part is the brain center, which gives rise to the intellectual powers; the lower center is the heart center, and gives rise to the emo. tional forces. Both of them are positive and negative in their nature, according to the will or the position of the person. We can change this condition by simply changing from one side to the other; if we are lying on the left side and continue so for ten or fifteen minutes the force of the life current will go in the opposite diretion and the polarity will be changed. All the rules of breathing ought not to be practised until the vehicles of the subtle forces in the body are operative because if they are so practised, these very powers and forces act as poisons and will kill the person. Persons even in India do not prescribe these rules, moral and physical, to those who do not know how to concentrate, who simply observe one rule, that of breathing, without purifying the nerve and blood centers, etc. These things become dangerous to such persons, and they attract disease which has never been cured. For such people the Latin maxim ought to be applied which said, “Investigate, but do not experiment. When this kind of breathing is practised for a long time we see the results in the body, and in the first stages pers
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