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A yogic breathing exercise which is really useful and danger-free combines constructive thinking with deep breathing. On the inhalation, the student is to imagine he is strengthening his will by transmuting his lower forces; on the exhalation he is to imagine that he is casting out emotional weakness and rubbish. The breaths should be deeper than usual, forceful "like a pair of bellows powerfully manipulated by a smith," as an ancient Hindu text says.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 6 : Breathing Exercises > # 36