After having been helped in some degree by another, and often without that preliminary help, come the motions by which we are enabled to free ourselves; and it is interesting to see how much more easily the body will move after following this course of exercises.  Take the same attitude on the floor, giving up entirely in every part to the force of gravity, and keep your eyes closed through the whole process.  Then stop and imagine yourself heavy.  First think one leg heavy, then the other, then each arm, and both arms, being sure to keep the same weight in the legs; then your body and head.  Use your imagination to the full extent of its power, and think the whole machine heavy; wonder how the floor can hold such a weight.  Begin then to take a deep breath.  Inhale through the nose quietly and easily.  Let it seem as if the lungs expanded themselves with, out voluntary effort on your part.  Fill first the lower lungs and then the upper.  Let go, and exhale the air with a sense of relief.  As the air leaves your lungs, try to let your body rest back on the floor more heavily, as a rubber bag would if the air were allowed to escape from it.  Repeat this breathing exercise several times; then inhale and exhale rhythmically, with breaths long enough to give about six to a minute, for ten times, increasing the number every day until you reach fifty.  This eventually will establish the habit of longer breaths in the regular unconscious movement of our lungs, which is most helpful to a wholesome physical state.  The directions for deep breathing should be carefully followed in the deep breaths taken after each motion.  After the deep breathing, drag your leg up slowly, very slowly, trying to have no effort except in the hip joint, allowing the knee to bend, and dragging the heel heavily along the floor, until it is up so far that the sole of the foot touches without effort on your part.  Stop occasionally in the motion and let the weight come into the heel, then drag the foot with less effort than before,—­so will the strain of movement be steadily decreased.  Let the leg slip slowly down, and when it is nearly flat on the floor again, let go, so that it gives entirely and drops from its own weight.  If it is perfectly free, there is a pleasant little spring from the impetus of dropping, which is more or less according to the healthful state of the body.  The same motion must be repeated with the other leg.  Every movement should be slower each day.  It is well to repeat the movements of the legs for three times, trying each time to move more slowly, with the leg heavier than the time before.  After this, lift the arm slowly from the shoulder, letting the hand hang over until it is perpendicular to the floor.  Be careful to think the arm heavy, and the motive power in the shoulder.  It helps to relax if you imagine your arm held to the shoulder by a single hair, and that if you move it with a force beyond the minimum needed to raise it, it will drop off entirely.  To those