Part 9

Action: Expand the chest, pulling it well up and letting the abdomen become hollow. Count six, then make chest small, pushing down and making abdomen large, and count two.

Remarks: Do this three to five times without breathing; then take several slow, long, deep breaths. Repeat this exercise for fifteen or twenty minutes.

Exercise 3.

Position: Hands on hips, body erect.

Action: The body should be raised first on toes, and then by bending the knees, the body should be lowered. Keep back perpendicular to the floor. Go through exercise slowly.

Exercise 4.

Position: Lying on back, knees bent, hands at sides.

Action: Slowly raise arms toward ceiling and overhead in line with body, reach in line with body and inhale. Return arms to normal position slowly exhaling. Keep abdomen in and chest up.

Exercise 5.

Position: Body erect, hands clasped behind neck, elbows extended well back.

Action: Bend neck backward as far as possible keeping chin in. Inhale deeply throwing shoulders back. Return to normal position and exhale.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Page 9: “candy is the worse” grammatical error retained.

Page 15: Stray comma in Exercise 4 corrected.

Page 18: missing comma in Exercise 5 added.

Normalized hyphenation.