THE NEW SCIENCE OF CONTROLLED BREATHING The Secret of Strength, Energy and Beauty--Through Breath Control By EDWARD LANKOW Leading basso with the Boston, Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies. World-renowned singer and teacher of the new science of controlled breathing LESSON I Importance of Consciously Controlled Breathing CORRECTIVE EATING SOCIETY, INC. 47 West Sixteenth Street NEW YORK CITY “_And the Lord God ... breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul._” Copyright, 1922, Corrective Eating Society, Inc. FOREWORD The staff of life is not bread--it is _breath_. For you can live days without drink, and weeks without food. But you can only live a few minutes without air. You would think, inasmuch as the human race has been breathing for at least five hundred thousand years, that men and women today would know _how_ to breathe. As a matter of fact, however, consciously controlled breathing is known to but very few people. These few fortunate individuals have been rewarded by Nature in the way Nature always rewards those who follow her laws. She blesses them with magnificent constitutions, tireless energy and the strength and beauty that comes from radiant health; skin that shows the rich blood flowing under its clear surfaces, sparkling eyes, and the vivacious manner that attracts and holds the attention of men and women alike. This, Nature does for those who use rightly her great gift. Of the few in all the world who know the inmost secrets of the art of breathing, Edward Lankow, the talented author of this course, is perhaps the greatest. The Editor of Physical Culture Magazine says of him: “Mr. Edward Lankow is rated by many critics as the greatest basso in America. The richness, resonance, depth, power, flexibility and cello-like beauty of his voice has not been duplicated in America for years. Mr. Lankow is thirty-five years old; weight, 205 pounds stripped; height 6 feet, 1-1/2 inches; chest 44-1/2 inches; waist, 38 inches. He is Russian-American, born in Tarrytown, N. Y.”