It is difficult to define breath in a few words.

• Breath is the very life in beings, and what holds all the particles of the body together is the power of the breath, and when this power becomes less then the will loses its control over the body. As the power of the sun holds all the planets so the power of the breath holds every organ.
• Besides this the breath purifies the body by taking in new and fresh life and by giving out all gases that should be put out.
• It nourishes the body by absorbing from the space the spirit and substance that are necessary, and more necessary than all that man eats and drinks.