ONE
Breath Is Life
sweet is the Death of morn...
--John Milton， Parad/se Lost
1: / ~xygen: the fir stand most basic necessity of life， the es-
JUsential element of-yourm-dment-b~i-mom-ent-involve-
ment with- tKe--dlr- ar~u-nd-y_~-~i--ilI
Life begins with__.y_pur first breath. You will breathe jno_xygen
ten to sixteen or more times in the next minute. Yo~_.~，take
about onehunclr-edmiH/on-breaths-l~fore you take your ~as~:--
But breathing is far more than inhaling air con_t_ajn_ing_o.xygen_:
circulatingit_inyour _b~d3，_， consuming its benefits， and exhaling
~ carbon dioxide. Philosophers and-playsicians-have-always rec-
ognized the basic relationship between breath!ng andfifeenergy.
For_~three thousand years， the philosophy of yoga has held that
control of~reath was the key to g~ physmal health and
~/~ to ~alm.ci~ar-thiT~n-g. In this c en_t.u..ry， science has advanced
our understanding of how breathin~g interacts with the-body and
the \"mind.
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