The New Science of Controlled Breathing, Vol. 2 (of 2) / The Secret of Strength, Energy and Beauty—Through Breath Control

The Secret of Strength, Energy and Beauty—Through Breath Control
By EDWARD LANKOW
Leading basso with the Boston, Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies. World-renowned singer and teacher of the new science of controlled breathing
LESSON II Controlled Breathing as a Means of Exercise
CORRECTIVE EATING SOCIETY, Inc. 47 West Sixteenth Street NEW YORK CITY
Copyright, 1922, Corrective Eating Society, Inc.

Many theories concerning the art of breathing have been exploited in recent years. Numerous books dealing with the subject have been offered to the public. The net results, however, have been unsatisfactory. The appeal of this propaganda has met with comparatively little response. The truth as to the importance of right method in breathing may have been presented, but it has remained valueless, since it has not been accepted and acted upon by those to whom it was addressed. Perhaps in great measure the fault lies in the fact that the various advocates of breath-systems have been too vague in their teachings, have expounded the theory rather than the practice.
It is for this reason that I have been at pains to describe all necessary exercises in such detail as to make the practice of them simple and easy for every reader, I have arranged them in such order as to make sure a rapid progress toward perfect breath-control, with its consequent increase in health, beauty, efficiency and happiness.
It seems, indeed, difficult to impress on anybody not familiar with the wonderful advantages of correct breathing, a full recognition of the vital bearing breath-control has on the well-being of the individual. Air is too ridiculously cheap to be much respected by most persons. And, too, breathing is ordinarily automatic, requiring no thought. Naturally enough, then, most persons give it no attention, since they have no realization of its importance.
Nature has provided that all great things should be essentially simple. It is thus with the process of breathing, which is the chief vital functioning of the body.