lmost
automatically.

It will be seen that by this method of breathing all parts of the
respiratory apparatus is brought into action, and all parts of the
lungs, including the most remote air cells, are exercised. The chest
cavity is expanded in all directions. You will also notice that the
Complete Breath is really a combination of Low, Mid and High Breaths,
succeeding each other rapidly in the order given, in such a manner as
to form one uniform, continuous, complete breath.

You will find it quite a help to you if you will practice this breath
before a large mirror, placing the hands lightly over the abdomen so
that you may feel the movements. At the end of the inhalation, it is
well to occasionally slightly elevate the shoulders, thus raising the
collarbone and allowing the air to pass freely into the small upper
lobe of the right lung, which place is sometimes the breeding place of
tuberculosis.

At the beginning of practice, you may have more or less trouble in
acquiring the Complete Breath, but a little practice will make
perfect, and when you have once acquired it you will never willingly
return to the old methods.

CHAPTER IX.

PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF THE COMPLETE BREATH.

Scarcely too much can be said of the advantages attending the practice
of the Complete Breath. And yet the student who has carefully read the
foregoing pages should scarcely need to have pointed out to him such
advantages.

The practice of the Complete Breath will make any man or woman immune
to Consumption and other pulmonary troubles, and will do away with all
liability to contract "colds," as well as bronchial and similar
weaknesses. Consumption is due principally to lowered vitality
attributable to an insufficient amount of air being inhaled. The
impairment of vitality renders the system open to attacks from disease
germs. Imperfect breathing allows a considerable part of the lungs to
remain inactive, and such portions offer an inviting field for
bacilli, which invading the weakened tissue soon produce havoc. Good
healthy lung tissue will resist the germs, and the only way to have
good healthy lung tissue is to use the lungs properly.

Consumptives are nearly all narrow-chested. What does this mean?
Simply that these people were addicted to improper habits of
breathing, and consequently their chests failed to develop and expand.
The man who practices the Complete Breath will have a full broad
chest, end the narrow