Julia Seton

“ The union of conscious breathing and fasting makes the very quickest exchange possible. When one fasts his respirations quicken naturally, because the muscles becoming weak demand more subjective force, and anything that calls for more energy in the blood will quicken the breath and, through this, the flow of the blood. ”

“ There are many persons who breathe and breathe, but do not get results in their flesh, simply because the normal exchange is not made within the pulmonary vessels; the cells in the passing blood stream in the lungs are so saturated with the narcotic of the carbon gas that they do not release in time to catch the oxygen as it enters, this is why long, deep respirations,–holding the inspired breath–imperative in most cases. The new oxygenated breath, held long enough, will force the sluggish cells to release ”

“ It has taken centuries to know that the direct road to excretion and nutrition is through the physical breath. It is a new light on the secrets of the self to find that there are two avenues of sustenance by which the race man feeds himself, on through food and the other through breathing. ”

“ When we shorten the beat between, or when our expiration and inspiration halt the normal pulse beat of our body, we gather debris so dense that after a while we have no space for incoming breath and no strength to empty our already overcharged physical spaces. ”

“ With the new elixir of oxygenated air flowing into the blood as it passes through the ductless glands, and the minute occult centers of the brain and spinal cord, all the very fine activity of the body is reestablished. The kinetic fluid of the body is released and new vital life force immerses every cell of every tissue. ”

“ The glutton, with his distended stomach full of food, does not take a normal breath–he can not; the drunkard cannot breathe enough for elimination, while the sick, puny invalid, to whom every effort is painful turns wearily away from the physical effort which enforced breathing entails. ”

“ There is always a certain amount of residual air in the lungs whcih keeps them inflated and gives the individual a chance to call for more breath in emergencies, also a chance to let out more breath if the need is great.
The residual breath is often a source of disease and nearly always takes a part in the inharmony of the body. There are many who never really change the residual air in their lungs ”