RHYTHMIC BREATHING
“The rhythm of the breath is the rhythm of the universe,” declared Mrs. Phoebe Holmes, lecturing at the Concert Chamber, last night. The lecturer said that babies breathed naturally, and it was only when children had an illness, or a cold, that they began to breathe incorrectly, and when they began to breathe through the mouth, they began to suffer from adenoids, tonsilitis, and catarrh. People sliottld not attempt to hold the breath. By doing Hint tl'£y strained (lie lungs.'instead of expanding them. In the Old Testament days, when man used to live for hundreds of years, they understood how to breathe. Athletes did not have long lives, because the exercises which they performed used up the nerves and tissue, anil then they did not breathe in a way which would take the waste products oiit of the system. When referring briefly to the question of diet, Mrs. Holmes stated what people ate should be regulated by the work which they did.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 36, 6 November 1928, Page 11
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