"Correct Breathing depends on Love"

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“CORRECT BREATHING DEPENDS ON LOVE”

 

THE MASTER ON BREATHING

 

 “Breathing is praise to God”

 

In his Talks, especially those conducted in the mountains, the Master often dwelt on deep breathing. One could say a lot about the breathing method imparted by the Master through exercises and singing, and likewise about his mystical definitions of our connection with the air through which the Holy Spirit works.

 

The following is a brief listing of the Master’s thoughts on breathing, taken from his Talks.

 

1.     DEEP BREATHING IS FULL BREATHING. During such breathing both the upper and lower portions of the lungs take part. When we take in more air the capillaries are filled, as a result a person maintains the air in his lungs for a longer period of time.

 

2.     The more air a person takes in the more prana enters his lungs. From the lungs the prana penetrates the whole organism. Along with the prana a person receives more ideas, which are accomplished over time.

 

3.     This means that part of our ideas are received from the air, and they are fertilised in our lungs.

 

4.     Fast breathing is unhealthy. Whoever breathes quickly becomes exhausted quickly and cannot finish the work he has undertaken.

 

Today people inhale and exhale twenty times a minute. That is fast breathing. During quick oxygenation of the blood the combustion in the organism is incorrect, as a consequence of which a portion of the combustible materials cannot be burnt up and are deposited in the form of deposits in the arteries and veins.

 

5.     He who breathes quickly has a weak will. Concentrate on your breathing and gradually lower your inhalings per minute from 20 breaths to 19,18,17,16,15 ... If you can reach ten per minute, that will have a healthy effect on the organism. He who wishes to strengthen his will should breathe slowly. A strong will can regulate the breathing, can make it normal.

 

6.       Man’s strength does not come solely from his physical nourishment. In order to be strong he must know how to make use of the air, which he breathes, to send it to all the pulmonary cells, so that the breathing can become correct.

 

           Note: A breath means inhaling, holding and exhaling through the nose.

 

7.     If you see a person who is breathing quickly, this means that only the upper portion of the his lungs is engaged in breathing. Such a person is unable to be patient. Whoever wishes to become patient must learn to breathe deeply! If he does not breathe deeply, he becomes nervous, quick-tempered and impatient.

 

        If you order two people, one of them patient and the other impatient, to write on the same subject, you will find a great difference between their work. In the paper by the patient person there will be greater depth and thought than in that of the impatient one. They both think, but their thinking is radically different.

 

8.     If you find yourself free for a half hour or an hour, breathe deeply! Send your thoughts on high, toward God, join yourself to Him and begin to breathe rhythmically.

 

9.     The diaphragm plays an important role in breathing. Whoever studies the science of breathing pays great attention to the diaphragm. As soon as the diaphragm is functioning correctly you will be healthy. When it moves upward, a person’s heart begins to pound; he will have a cough, colds, and many other problems. In order to stop coughing fill your lungs with air. When you become tense, your diaphragm does not release air, and as the air puts pressure on it, it moves it. When you leave the lungs full of air, the diaphragm moves upward. I say: take in air. It is a natural medicine.

 

10.   Incorrect breathing creates deposits, sediment in the human organism. When does a person breathe incorrectly? When he thinks and feels incorrectly.

 

11.   You must learn to breathe smoothly! There must be harmony between the thoughts and feelings of a person. When there is not harmony between the feelings and thoughts of a person, his breathing becomes incorrect.

 

12.   Breathing must proceed musically. Fast breathing is a weakness. You must breathe slowly. Each breath should be measured.

 

13.   If you do not breathe correctly, your digestion is incorrect. And your thinking will not be correct. And your feelings will not be correct.

 

14.   Practise breathing deeply, keeping the air within your lungs for a certain period of time. The longer you keep it in, the better you will feel.

 

15.   Through deep breathing you can regulate your nervous system. When your nervous system is in good working order, your organism is healthy.

 

16.   Breathing, as a process of taking and giving, forms the foundation of life. That process lies in one’s thoughts and feeling. When a good person exhales something, good goes out into the world. A healthy, good, sensible person cannot be poor. He has been richly endowed by nature.

 

17.   Negative things interfere with correct breathing, and positive things improve it. Correct breathing requires beautiful and peaceful thoughts. Consequently, think about flowers in bloom, about swift mountain streams which flow and water the valleys.

 

18.   Correct breathing depends on love. You will breathe deeply, you will hold the air in your lungs for a long time, with love. You will do this three times a day, for ten or fifteen minutes, each time.

 

19.   Breathe with joy and love, with a smiling face, standing straight. Your back should form a parallel line with the straight line that joins the centre of the sun with the centre of the earth. Your chest should be thrust out, not slumped inward.

 

Those are elementary rules for breathing, which should be maintained in order for you to be healthy and good-humoured. When you breathe correctly you link yourself with the rhythm of nature and you become stronger in spirit and body.

 

20.   BREATHING EXERCISES:

 

        The arms are brought to the side slowly, as one breathes in deeply; afterwards they are raised upward, and the air is held in. The arms are raised above the head, then slowly lowered, as one breathes out slowly,

 

21.   One of the ways to strengthen one’s respiratory system is hiking. If a person does not give rich nourishment to his lungs as a result of such a hike, the hiking has not accomplished its purpose. When one’s lungs are filled with pure air, one’s stomach works well.

 

22.   The new education for mankind strives for the regulation of the digestive, respiratory and nervous system of man, so that there will be a correct interchange among his energies. That is why I recommend complete calm to everyone,

 

23.   The air is the storehouse of the divine energy. If you do not breathe correctly and your digestion is incorrect, your blood circulation will be incorrect. If your blood circulation is incorrect, your thinking will not be correct. If your thinking is incorrect your feelings will not be correct.

 

24.   Your mind cannot be radiant and capable of judgment, if it does not have pure blood! Your blood must have a bright red colour. This colour depends on deep breathing. If while you are breathing you are anxious and aware of the fact, your blood cannot take on that colour. That is, it cannot take on the life energy called prana.

 

25.   Breathing is a measure for defining a man’s development.

 

26.   Remember three words: goodness, song and poetry. Think about them.