hands and breath life into whatever you desire. - You can grow friends, beautiful surroundings, money, loving thoughts, wisdom -- anything YOU WILL, by thus practice. I don’t care two cents whether you have faith in it or not -- just do it and you will find out that what I affirm is true.

The solar plexus is the seat of emotion. By proper exercise of the whole breathing apparatus you may gain such control of the solar plexus that anger, resentment, resistance, blues, discouragement and fear will be as foreign to you as are the awkward motions you used to make when you were first learning to walk or eat. All these unpleasant emotions are due to cramping the solar plexus. The exercises I have just given you will free the plexus and make you “feel good.” Continued practice will establish the habit of “feeling good “ -- -that is, the habit of feeling free.

Until you succeed in establishing a habit of feeling good you will have, as you have had heretofore, periods of depression. These will gradually grow less deep and be more readily dissipated. When you feel yourself growing depressed, for no matter what cause, break up the tendency as quickly as Possible. Here is the way to do it:

Undress if possible; if not, loosen your clothing; lie down flat upon your back with arms outspread and without pillow; let go of everything mentally; inhale slowly through the nostrils a full breath; hold steady a second or two; then force the breath suddenly into the upper part of the lungs; hold there a second or two and then suddenly throw all the breath down as far as possible, at the same time exclaiming mentally to the solar plexus, “Wake up! Wake up!“ Hold the breath down a second or two; then gradually let it flow back until the lungs are evenly filled again, hold an instant, and then see how very slowly