at perfect ease.

(2) Breathe rhythmically until the rhythm is perfectly
established.

(3) Then, inhaling and exhaling, form the mental image of
the breath being drawn up through the bones of the legs, and
then forced out through them; then through the bones of the
arms; then through the top of the skull; then through the
stomach; then through the reproductive region; then as if it
were traveling upward and downward along the spinal column;
and then as if the breath were being inhaled and exhaled
through every pore of the skin, the whole body being filled
with prana and life.

(4) Then (breathing rhythmically) send the current of prana
to the Seven Vital Centers, in turn, as follows, using the
mental picture as in previous exercises:

(a) To the forehead.

(b) To the back of the head.

(c) To the base of the brain.

(d) To the Solar Plexus.

(e) To the Sacral Region (lower part of the spine).

(f) To the region of the navel.

(g) To the reproductive region.

Finish by sweeping the current of prana, to and fro from
head to feet several times.

(5) Finish with Cleansing Breath.

CHAPTER XVI.

YOGI SPIRITUAL BREATHING.

The Yogis not only bring about desired mental qualities and properties
by will-power coupled with rhythmic breathing, but they also develop
spiritual faculties, or rather aid in their unfoldment, in the same
way. The Oriental philosophies teach that man has many faculties which
are at present in a dormant state, but which will become unfolded as
the race progresses. They also teach that man, by the proper effort of
the will, aided by favorable conditions, may aid in the unfoldment of
these spiritual faculties, and develop them much sooner than in the
ordinary process of evolution. In other words, one may even now
develop spiritual powers of consciousness which will not become the
common property of the race until after long ages of gradual
development under the law of evolution. In all of the exercises
directed toward this end, rhythmic breathing plays an important part.
There is of course no mystic property in the breath itself which
produces such wonderful results, but the rhythm produced by the Yogi
breath is such as to bring the whole system, including the brain,
under perfect control, and in perfect harmony, and by this