=Psycho-physical=, examination, 19, 128, 133, 202, 215; p. conditions, 58, 62; p. process, 65; p. make-up of the individual, 70; p. organism, 89; p. condition of child at birth, 154; p. forces, 160; p. guidance, 181; p. spheres, 192; p. turning point in civilisation, 194; p. mechanism, 210; p. habit, 262, 301; p. peculiarities, 260; p. treatment, 270. =Psycho-therapy=, 235. =Reaction of mind on body and body on mind=, 45, 134, 212. =Re-adjustment=, 59, 63, 65, 71, 140, 147, 192, 202; national, 144; “means whereby,” of successful, 67, 278. =Reason=, 30, 35, 67; domination of, by sensation, 25, 160, 197, 256, 290, 311; national stultification of, 162, 170; as basis of confidence, 215; of new civilisation, 242; necessity for, in emergency, 243 ff., 249, 282. =Re-education=, 59, 65–71, 96, 189, 253 ff., 258, 277, 340; specific meaning of, 199; fundamental principle of, 256; of kinæsthetic systems, 148, 302; respiratory, 313–340; in connection with overcoming bad habits, 288; with spinal curvature, 301. =Reform, social=, 11, 153; induced by suggestion, 54; in connection with will-power, 59; cause of failure of, 61. =Relaxation=, Preface, 13, 24, 89, 217, 261, 284; real meaning of, 26, 96; illustration of, in lifting weight, 98. =Resistance to disease=, Preface, 179, 284, 288, 318, 340. =Respiration=, 20, 113; respiratory re-education, 313–340; medical opinion concerning, 319. v. =Breathing=. =Responsibility of patient=, 188, 215. =Rest cures=, Preface, 16, 43, 99. =Ribs=, movement of, in breathing, 302, 310, 333. =Rigidity=, 95, 148, 212–213, 264; mental, 50, 76, 82 ff.; applied to physical functions, 51; harmful thoracic, 147, 201; national, 160–167; in educational methods, 118, 136, 139; in military methods, 170, 172. =Rome=, civilisation of, 7. =Rupture=, 310. =Sandow=, 330. =School furniture=, 154. =Science=, as another name for common-sense, 30; advance of, impeded, 51. =Scott, Sir Walter=, 103. =Self-hypnotism=, 24 ff., 131, 216, 262; national, 162, 166; in connection with “frightfulness,” 171; due to fear, 243–245. =Self-preservation=, 41, 99. =Sensation=, pandering to, 66, 68 ff., 111, 113, 290; perverted, 69, 74; new correct guiding, 189. =Sensory appreciation=, habit of dependence on, 9, 232, 237; unreliable, 21 ff., 69, 89, 97, 207, 232, 256, 275; dominating reason, 25; new and correct, 24, 190, 214, 225, 230, 257 ff. =Shakespeare-Bacon controversy=, 81 ff. =Shaw, G. Bernard=, on education, 122. =Shortening= (“pressing down”). v. =Spine=. =Shoulders=, delusions in regards to movement of, 18, 23, 214, 276. =Simple life=, 8 ff. =Singing=, 232. =Sitting=, act of, 179, 283–285, 332; in children, 120; rising from sitting, 285–286. =Skin=, 264, 308, 339.