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There is another reason besides Nature's stillness or environmental quietness for choosing dusk, dawn, or midnight, and that is the balanced breathing which temporarily follows. This in turn steadies the mind. At other times the breath passes more through the left or through the right nostril--disequilibrium which affects the mind.
-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 6 : Breathing Exercises > # 39