Message #39558

[Jitendra Hydonus]

The breath in man has a similar correspondence with the equinoctial cycle. The normal presernt rate of respiration and in a healthy young adult is 72 breaths in 4 minutes or 18 breaths a minute.  Golden age men will breathe only about 60 times in four minutes. Taking fewer, longer breaths per minute is the shortest cut to concentration of mind. When one is intensely interested in any subject, one’s breathing involuntarily becomes slower and slower. Consciousness is intimately connected with breath. The faster a person breathes, the less  conscious he is; his attention cannot remain fixed. Surgeons of a few hundred years ago, took  advantage of this knowledge, and induced unconsciousness in their patients by instructing them to breathe very fast for a few moments.

~Tara Mata