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