Show The Girl Y You ou Would Like to Be BeI e I Just a Breath I I By Katherine e Morton 1 I It t s I A F t s 4 lcy 1 r 1 t tt t L j jI L I 1 4 t 1 Ic 41 j y 4 v ks t 2 t T 4 I 1 F Fr r 4 b ji I Ie e I 4 I b by I y I Ai t 1 I r r Q b bt I ft 4 t 1 I 1 i r p 5 i it I 4 t r 4 p k 4 I Y c E V L LI t The I Fashion That Makes Deep DeeD Breathing Impossible A Perfect Figure Developed by Breath Control Too Lazy to Breathe Breath is life Breathing is the most important function of 01 the body bod A proper supply of air lr and a properly controlled breath mean health vitality magnetism and beauty Breath control is la the greatest means of de development development according to the and people of or the west are awakening to the fact that physical and mental health depends largely on correct hab habits habits habIts its of breathing I If every woman m jn inthis this country knew how to use her lungs tully fully nerve sanitariums would have to shut up and the rest cures would be things of the past In their normal state men and women needed no rio In Instructions Instructions instructions In breathing They con continued continued Pt to use their respiratory organs It P naturally and correctly just as chil children dren and animals do but with the strain of modern life Ute tight and heavy cloth clothIng clothIng clothIng Ing only about one person Derson In a thou thousand thousand thousand sand really enjoys the full use of 61 his lungs Unnatural positions of the body bod l constant sitting and stooping bad yen ven ve lack of ot exercise and conse consequent conseE 1 t a quent physical phy and mental fatigue have E Induced methods of breathing which 1 keep the person alive moor Incorrect Incorrect breathing Is Js the cause of ot most of the diseases of the day Including the greatest pe ril consumption Though breathing exercises are being taught in InI ink k I every school In every physical culture class but little good is done by them unless the habit of correct breathing is S acquired As a little country woman to whom I had sent rules for deep breath breathing breathIng ing wrote f t c nia me breathe I regularly dl A when I stop top the trouble is still sUll there thereOf thereOf J Of course what she should do is lz not notto notto notto to stop her deep breath but to do It habitually I presume she goes on breathing somehow since she is still sun alive AS s long as ns deep breathing Is s merely a fad of the moment or practiced practiced practiced incidentally and regarded as a sort of nuisance it is not doing more than 4 momentary good go d But said a hol young woman to me some years ago why should I learn how to breathe I hao havo always alwa s breathed br naturally like everybody else and Im rm sure there can be no xio other way vay Its silly The girl was in short puffy breaths using just the top of her lungs Her voice was weak and her anemic face and undeveloped figure spoke of a lack of vitality and strength which she only could have gained by bya a knowledge of the correct use of lungs and oxygen Being the kind of girl however who simply will not take a suggestion she laughed the Idea of breathing exercises to scorn I have recently heard that she has been ordered to Colorado by her phy physician physician If you want to find out whether you are using your breath capacity to its full tun extent wait until you go to bed at night When you are lying down quite relaxed and breathing regularly place your hands on the body and feel what portions of it move with each Inhalation inhalation Inhalation tion You Tou will probably feel all ribs Including the lower ones expand pushed out by the expansion of the diaphragm that big muscle which sep sop separates separates the chest box from the abdo abdomen abdomen abdomen men The chest will be he raised a little by the inflation of the lungs As you ou exhale the diaphragm will relax the ribs sink in the chest fall slightly This is normal breathing This muscular takes place every time the child breathes and should occur with every inhalation of the grown person but Out for various reasons it does not With Witha a woman the first excuse for insufficient insufficient dent breath is her fashionable cloth Ing which is usually too tight to allow for any expansion at all Many women believe that a stylish figure depends on ona ona ona a good corset It does to a certain extent but even more than does the illusive quality of that name depend upon the carriage of the body A good corset need not be a tight one and cor corsets corsets corsets sets cut on fashionable lines Unes can be made with plenty of breathing space A snugly drawn waist line Une does less harm hann to the t e woman than a a bodice which fits her too tightly across the chest and does not permit of any action of the ribs This Is s the fashionable figure which destroys both physique and men mentality mentality mentality and against which doctors and specialists have waged war for years because it Is Impossible for a woman tightly laced and so compressed in a bodice to draw one real breath of air But she can have a magnificent and modish figure and yet not be laced or even wear corsets Mme Olla OlIa the great Russian actress has such a figure She is chic stylish elegant yet she never has worn a corset Her frocks are slightly boned to keep them from wrinkling about the body but her waist is small and the lines of her figure are superb because she is per perfectly developed and holds herself splendidly A womans carriage is queenly or slovenly according to the way she holds her chest Her waist is small or large as she keeps up the chest box or sinks down into the waist relaxing the muscles which grow flaccid d If she breathes correctly her chest will be bewell bewell bewell well developed and high The lazy indolent woman breathes as superficially superficially as she can and looks it She takes in as little of the en energy energy ergy or force as she can with comfort and consequently she has hardly strength enough to crawl around or dress herself properly She is the wo woman woman woman man termed sloppy who enough energy to keep herself clean tie her shoestrings or to do her ber hair up properly She needs more life more breath The indolent woman like the sick woman needs to practice deep breath breathIng ing to rouse sluggish circulation and awaken her dormant mental and physical faculties The nervous wo woman woman woman man will find in the rhythmic breath bre th ing jag printed below an exercise which will soothe her nerves and eventually Induce sleep Deep breathing is necessary necessary necessary sary for the girl whose complexion Is mottled A bad complexion Is an in of bad blood which Is purified by inducing a fresh supply of oxygen into the system after cutting off of part of or the food supply and cleansing the system with water There are a great many different ways of Inhaling the oxygen and after deep breathing has been mastered and becomes a habit the subject can cantry cantry try tr some of the other breaths taken from various Oriental sources Those suggested by Yogi in his science of breath are strongly to be recommended and excellent results have been obtained by b practicing them Anything that will impress woman with the vital necessity of making real use of the life Ufe force which is fiJi all about us u and which we inhale with every breath is to be acclaimed with joy It means not only health to this genera generation tion but freedom from disease for the next How to Learn Deep Breathing On getting up In the morning while still clap in your our night dIess dress stand firmly t Jack hack against the th wall the wall w ll with the back of the head Inhale through the nostrils with witha a sensation that the air is going to the bottom of the lungs first and slowly filling up the space until you can take in no more The chest cheat lifts up of it itself self and you should retain this tion with the air in the lungs while mentally slowly counting three Now expel the breath through the thc nose keeping the chest high and pressing the breath out of the bottom of the lungs first The chest sinks down last Re peat this breathing exercise e ten times Do not try to hold the breath too long or count too slowly If you feel a choking sensation while retaining the breath begin to exhale at once but always exhale slowly Another breathing exercise for the morning is done while standing up right as before Place one hand at the side on the lower ribs the other hand In the soft part of the back Draw In a deep breath forcing the air down so that you feel the hands come out and feel as if you were breathing through your our back This is to exercise the lower part of the lungs After in inhaling inhaling haling hold the breath while counting three and expel slowly Repeat this ex exercise e exercise seven times These exercises should always be done in a well venti ventilated ventilated ventilated room if i possible with the win windows windows dows open This can be done during the day and should be again repeated at night just before going to bed unless the subject be very nervous when hen the rhythmic breath will induce sleep Rhythmic Breath When ready for bed after having opened the window get in bed and ret resi comfortably on the back with limbs extended The pillow should not be b high It is best to have no pillow at al atall atall all Relax Rela the body as much as pos possible possible possible sible by inhaling slowly and exhaling quickly with a feeling of letting go the th muscles and the tension in the body Now inhale very slowly through the th nostrils while counting seven seen Retain 1 the breath with the same number and am 1 I exhale very slowly counting seven sever amI I again Repeat this exercise until it ii t becomes no longer necessary for you to t count the intervals for they will get to tobe tobe tc be of equal length naturally and am soothing sleep will be induced The Awakening Breath This breathing exercise will stimulate the nervous system and create force and energy for the person who practices practices practices tices It Stand erect filling the lungs lung according to the first exercise for deep breathing Hold the arms out straight in front of you with just enough energy in them to keep the position they should be as limp as possible pos ible Now No draw the hands back toward the shout shoulders shoulders ders putting as much force as possible possible possible ble in them so that when they reach read the shoulders the flats will be tightly clenched and a tremulous motion is I felt Then still retaining the breath push the fists out slowly and breathy draw dray y them back rapidly without losing the th e tension In the muscles Repeat this thi S several times then exhale quickly I through the mouth S Copyright by T C McClure |