Why We Should Establish Schools To Teach The New Science of Breathing
Whatever the different systems for muscular and health development may be, the value of developing those vital inner organs—the heart, the lungs and the digestive organs, is easily understood. A large arm, or a wonderful leg development cannot help these inner organs, if they are naturally weak, or if they have been weakened. The point is—what will give health to these organs the fundamental or motor power to all health.
Special exercises for the lungs, that is, conscious deep breathing exercises for a specific period of time, will give results which few realize. It is all so simple that most of us cannot believe it, like all truths. The maximum oxygenation of the blood through taking in large quantities of air—thereby feeding the organs with purer blood—the improved circulation, the exhilarated heartbeat, the drawing away of drowsiness from the brain, the improved digestion through the unconscious massage of the lower organs, all these will show what results are obtainable. If the children in our schools were taught conscious, deep, slow breathing at that period of their lives when body and mind are flexible, the habit would be easily formed for life. This habit would surely wipe out consumption within two generations. Millions of human beings die yearly from this, the greatest human menace. Why not, therefore, have schools for breathing. Surely this experiment is entitled to a place among the hundreds of other experiments which have been and which are being tried.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.