(8) Controlling the emotions.

The undesirable emotions, such as Fear, Worry, Anxiety, Hate, Anger, Jealousy, Envy, Melancholy, Excitement, Grief, etc., are amenable to the control of the Will, and the Will is enabled to operate more easily in such cases if rhythmic breathing is practiced while the student is “willing.”  The following exercise has been found most effective by the Yogi students, although the advanced Yogi has but little need of it, as he has long since gotten rid of these undesirable mental qualities by growing spiritually beyond them.  The Yogi student, however, finds the exercise a great help to him while he is growing.

Breathe rhythmically, concentrating the attention upon the Solar Plexus, and sending to it the mental command “Get Out.”  Send the mental command firmly, just as you begin to exhale, and form the mental picture of the undesirable emotions being carried away with the exhaled breath.  Repeat seven times, and finish with the Cleansing Breath, and then see how good you feel.  The mental command must be given “in earnest,” as trifling will not do the work.

(9) Transmutation of the reproductive energy.

The Yogis possess great knowledge regarding the use and abuse of the reproductive principle in both sexes.  Some hints of this esoteric knowledge have filtered out and have been used by Western writers on the subject, and much good has been accomplished in this way.  In this little book we cannot do more than touch upon the subject, and omitting all except a bare mention of theory, we will give a practical breathing exercise whereby the student will be enabled to transmute the reproductive energy into vitality for the entire system, instead of dissipating and wasting it in lustful indulgences in or out of the marriage relations.  The reproductive energy is creative energy, and may be taken up by the system and transmuted into strength and vitality, thus serving the purpose of regeneration instead of generation.  If the young men of the Western world understood these underlying principles they would be saved much misery and unhappiness in after years, and would be stronger mentally, morally and physically.

This transmutation of the reproductive energy gives great vitality to those practicing it.  They will be filled with great vital force, which will radiate from them and will manifest in what has been called “personal magnetism.”  The energy thus transmuted may be turned into new channels and used to great advantage.  Nature has condensed one of its most powerful manifestations of prana into reproductive energy, as its purpose is to create.  The greatest amount of vital force is concentrated in the smallest area.  The reproductive organism is the most powerful storage battery in animal life, and its force can be drawn upward and used, as well as expended in the ordinary functions of reproduction, or wasted in riotous lust.  The majority of our students know something of the theories of regeneration; and we can do little more than to state the above facts, without attempting to prove them.