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Lying on your back, as before, and having your two hands over your abdomen, as in the First Lesson, go through the abdominal breathing as described in the First Lesson.

Now, as a change, begin as before: that is to say, as you inhale, send your abdomen up and out; but, instead of exhaling, hold the breath in, and move the abdomen up and down a few times. It is comparatively easy to move it up, but much harder to move it down and in, and in the latter exercise the hands are of use in pressing downwards and inwards. Be sure not to strain.

Then, if any air is left, exhale from the mouth. This exercise not only enables you to inhale more oxygen than usual, but it massages the stomach and liver, and it also helps you to circulate and disperse the air through the lungs, and up to the apex of the lungs, where disease so often is apt to begin.