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Do not do the exercises for longer than 3
minutes, and at first also not more often than twice a day. The exercise is best
done with sunlight and never directly after a meal. We may do this one after
the first breathing exercise, if that has already been practiced for two
weeks previously, and we can atb ease make the breath of 7 seconds for three
minutes.
DESRIPTION
OF THE SECOND RHYTHMICAL BREATHING EXERCISE

We are standing upright, with arms hanging down
along the body, head erect, chin pulled in just enough to show our independence,
the eyes fixed on a point before us, not further away than 2 metres . The body
should be fully relaxed, but the spine straight and firm, for the spinal marrow
is the seat of the soul. the body's weight should balance on the ball of the
feet. To do this gracefully, we let the body gently sway back and forth. Do not
rest on the heels. Mouth shut, theb tongue against the lower teeth, like with
the first exercise. While breathing, slowly and harmonically for 7 seconds,
while we intuitivelyfollow the stream of the breath, we will stand on the toes
and place the weight on the point of the feet. Then we bring the body back into
the previous position, while steadily breathing, with a graceful movement, that
is so easy to do for a controled body. If we are expecting immediate success
from this exercise, we will slowly
clench the fist while breathing in (N.B.: Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
describes this special posture of the hand too, a specific sort of fist)
gradually but thoroughly. We clench them more and more firm, but without any
effort, without specifically tensioning the muscles or gnashing the teeth. While
breathing out we slowly relax the fists, let the body rest again on the balls of
the feet, and even if the heels are touching trhe ground, no weight may rest on
them. To be able to relax easily, we just have to empty our lungs thoroughly and
bend our knees forward some millimeters. Here too: ( after the preparatory
Kapalabhati ) breathe inthrough the nose for 7 seconds , hold for 3 seconds,
breathe out for seven seconds through the mouth, hold for three seconds, and so
on, for three minutes.
Some more explanation
with this exercise:
...We may also do this exercise while walking. As soon as we
have learned to balance the body to and fro, we will do some steps while
breathing in and then try, for some steps, to hold the breath. After several
days this exercise will become of uncomparable value, because it evokes the
electrical current in the feet, of which our hearing is strongly dependent.
Gradually we will develop our hearing and we will, in all that peole are telling
us, be able to distinguish between true and untrue. On the other hand we will
tell nothing, that cannot stand up to the test of truth. we will also see that
our time is much too precious for critisizing others, and with joy we will greet
the day on which everyonec will mind his own business - but if we want that, we
ourselves must first act, and not wait untill others set the example. We must be
an example ourselves, then the othres will then follow...
-third lesson, p.46: ...You should, as we hope,
understand very well, that our exercises are a means to an end. When the desired
point in the development has been reached, we no longer need to stick to the
usual exercises. We expect that this development will bring us to areas
that transcend this lower form of existance and teach us how to make use of the
knowledge we gathered on our journey, on this terrain of our activity... -p.47:
...Breathing serves to eliminate all shortcomings and to enable us to
concentrate. By concentration we do not mean: meditation. We do not attach any
value to meditation on a specific subject, that covers but one aspect of our
nature. Concentration is something, that considers all that belongs to our
immediate happiness. Concentration of our thinking powers is absolutely
necessary, but meditation we might, if necessary, be able to do without... We
should realize very well, that none of our exercises should require any
effort at all, that we absolutely should not strain ourselves... -p.51:
...If the people around you get exited, and start loosing their
self-control, sit down and breathe. Take a few breaths, concentrate on
"Breath is Life" and after a few minutes you will amaze everyone by
your calm decidedness and efficient assistance, making everything end well...
p.55: ...With insufficient breathing capacity , the lungs may not suffer
directly, but other organs will, considering their intelligences, suffer a
shortage of supply and this condition is then signalled through to the senses by
means of the nervous system that, when forced to exhaust its reserves, will
become incertain in its functioning and will keep the senses in a state of
uncertainty. this is why often, when we are most in need of our presence of
mind, we will not know what to do or how to find a way out of our troubles. Such
a condition will come about whenever we are not able to stop the creative
working in the nodes of our nervous system by pauses in our breathing. our
senses are as much a manifestation of the condition of our body and its
activities as of the capacity of breath and brains...
-p.56: ...As long as our attention is mainly on
belly-breathing, the intelligences of the lower nature will fully reign the
vibrations of the brain, while the spiritual can only surface in times of
sickness and then ends in mental depression. Sometimes unconscious too, as if
against our will, as proof of the presence of a higher nature, that our
consciousness cannot express, because we do not understand our own true being...
...Thus we get near, step by step to the point
where it seems as if there is something in this life, that demands our attention
and we start breathing with the solar plexus-breath, be it unconscious, when we
grow toward it by an urge that is put onto us from outside, in our state of
singular being. Then we will go from one extreme to the other, thinking only of
the Future at the expense of the Present, just as in our animal state we neglect
to seek and dig for the dead bones of Israël. In the material we do injustice
to the spiritual and in the spiritual in reverse to the material, by neglecting
the needs of thePresent. We shall breathe the breath of life untill we rise
above all superstition of this time, towards the areas above - the heaven of the
intellectual, that knows peace , love and harmony: a world
without end...
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