As the mechanism of the body depends upon the breath for its subsistence as well as for its health, so the breath is important in sustaining the mind and keeping its work regular. Mostly, confusion, depression, or any other disorders of the mind arise from the disorder of breathing. All such diseases as hallucinations and delusions are caused by wrong breathing. For instance, if a person comes running or is hurried for a moment, he loses the regularity of his breath for that moment and at that moment he is incapable of thinking rightly.

If science and the state knew this, they could surely cause some change to be made in the present law. Many who are put in prison for some crime caused by them during moments of irregular breathing, the state would send to be cured and taught how to breathe instead of sending them to prison, for neither does the prison cure them nor does it benefit by their presence there. By this I mean to say that not only a disorder of the mind that comes at a certain time is caused by irregular breathing, but also a disorder which comes so many times during the day, whenever the breathing is not rightly done.

People who become impulsive, or show irritability in nature, who become impatient at times, who get fits of anger, passion, or laughter, who get spells of tears - all have an irregularity of breathing, which is the cause of all this. The physician has no remedy for their ills; modern psychology has not found the link; but the mystics from of old have for years believed - and not only believed but practiced - and have found in the end that balance of mind entirely depends upon regularity of breathing.