-chested man may develop his chest to normal
proportions if he will but adopt this mode of breathing. Such people
must develop their chest cavities if they value their lives. Colds may
often be prevented by practicing a little vigorous Complete Breathing
whenever you feel that you are being unduly exposed. When chilled,
breathe vigorously a few minutes, and you will feel a glow all over
your body. Most colds can be cured by Complete Breathing and partial
fasting for a day.

The quality of the blood depends largely upon its proper oxygenation
in the lungs, and if it is under-oxygenated it becomes poor in quality
and laden with all sorts of impurities, and the system suffers from
lack of nourishment, and often becomes actually poisoned by the waste
products remaining uneliminated in the blood. As the entire body,
every organ and every part, is dependent upon the blood for
nourishment, impure blood must have a serious effect upon the entire
system. The remedy is plain--practice the Yogi Complete Breath.

The stomach and other organs of nutrition suffer much from improper
breathing. Not only are they ill nourished by reason of the lack of
oxygen, but as the food must absorb oxygen from the blood and become
oxygenated before it can be digested and assimilated, it is readily
seen how digestion and assimilation is impaired by incorrect
breathing. And when assimilation is not normal, the system receives
less and less nourishment, the appetite fails, bodily vigor decreases,
and energy diminishes, and the man withers and declines. All from the
lack of proper breathing.

Even the nervous system suffers from improper breathing, inasmuch as
the brain, the spinal cord, the nerve centers, and the nerves
themselves, when improperly nourished by means of the blood, become
poor and inefficient instruments for generating, storing and
transmitting the nerve currents. And improperly nourished they will
become if sufficient oxygen is not absorbed through the lungs. There
is another aspect of the case whereby the nerve currents themselves,
or rather the force from which the nerve currents spring, becomes
lessened from want of proper breathing, but this belongs to another
phase of the subject which is treated of in other chapters of this
book, and our purpose here is to direct your attention to the fact
that the mechanism of the nervous system is rendered inefficient as an
instrument for conveying nerve force, as the indirect result of a la