You Have Lungs – Fill Them Up
Each lung sits perfectly enveloped in a protective elastic membrane, the pleura, whose inner layer is attached to the lung and whose outer layer forms the lining of the thoracic cavity inside the rib cage. One end of each rib is attached to the spinal column, but the front of the rib cage is open. This allows the lungs to expand and contract. When you breathe deeply, filling every air sac, your thoracic cavity expands as your lungs fill with six to ten pints of air. This varies according to body build and size. Lungs occupy from 200 to over 300 cubic inches.
This marvelous breathing mechanism is yours for free! You are born with it. It functions without conscious effort, yet without it, you cannot exist. Start slow, deep relaxed breathing right now.
Not even the latest inventions used by hospitals in emergencies, however ingenious, can equal the human breathing apparatus. Perhaps if human beings had to pay a fabulous price for their lungs and air, they would use them to full capacity all the time. Think of the big price you pay for only using them partially by shallow breathing. Remember, we are always only one breath away from death!
The Importance of Clean Air to Health
It is essential to breathe clean air – air that’s as free as possible from such chemicals as smog, car exhaust, natural gas appliance fumes and many other toxic chemical pollutants. Our air also needs to be as free as possible from dust, dust mites and their fecal matter, mold, animal dander and pollen.
Everyone’s health is helped in varying degrees by clean air. It is vitally important to live and work in an area which has clean air and which is free of all harmful fumes. It is also equally important to keep our homes pure, clean and free from dust, dust mites and debris! Most people cannot be truly 100% healthy and well until they breathe clean air, maintain a healthy diet and live a healthy lifestyle.
On an average day your lungs move enough air in and out to fill a medium-sized room or blow up several thousand party balloons.
Live Longer Breathing Clean Air Deeply
