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No. 4 STUDY IN DIAGNOSIS Only too frequently do we lose ourselves in details, paying more attention to minor things than we do to fundamentals. It is not within the province of Self-Diagnosis to burden the mind with unicums or exceptions. What we need is simple rules to go by. Nature goes by weights and measurements when considering commodities. Nature bases man upon base and inclinations. There can be but one base, although there are two inclinations. As to inclinations, the one may be in high, the other in low, by which we mean that one is in advance of the other. Previous studies have disclosed the method to be applied in determining base and inclinations. Still it may not be amiss to bear in mind that academic study often forces the first inclination, be it the intellectual, the spiritual, or the physical propensities. In cases where the first inclination is intellectual the right side of the forehead begins to protrude in the attempt to meet the intellect as marked on the left side of the forehead. Still there is a difference between the intellectually based and the intellectually inclined who forces academic studies. The intellectually based always shows an evenly cut forehead, while the intellectually inclined shows bumps, or ridges. Should the right side of the forehead protrude beyond the line of the left as marked by nature, then too many studies have been crowded and such a type no longer comes into the category of the normal, but rather turns abnormal or reaches progressively a certain limit. Here we meet a type, though educated, outside the range of normality, and quite frequently such a a person becomes unfit for the responsibilities originally destined or intended for. Here we realize the term "educated fool," and in the extreme type one who becomes mentally unbalanced. Asylums harbor the greater number of mentalities whose misfortune it has been to force an inclination beyond the limit of its corresponding factors. The same holds true where the spiritual side has been forced at the expense of either the physical or the intellectual, inviting, only too frequently, unbalanced tendencies. Where the physical inclination, either as a first or as a second inclination, is forced at the expense of either the spiritual or the intellectual, we have before us the most brutal type of human beings. Of this kind, those who force the physical as the first inclination are found in many professions and take to such official work where heart and mind are considered mere fancies that need to be torn out of human kind, both root and branch. Those who belong to the second category, forcing the physical as the second inclination, turn into pugilistic avenues and everything related to them. A great injustice is being done throughout all of humanity through not knowing enough about natural laws as regards mental and physical development. Almost all of the differences among the tribal members of the Aryan race are directly traceable to fallacious education and unnatural training. Our future education will be gauged by grading pupils according to base and inclinations rather than mere mental index based upon phenomena, which only too frequently rob the less boisterous of the opportunity to assert themselves. Grading according to base and inclination calls for universal training in consideration of the three principal factors of the mind. BREATH AND BREATHING In higher altitudes where the air is dry and balmy, filled with nitrates and oxygen, very little attention needs be paid to the length of inhalation as the air practically rushes through the dynamics without muscular effort. For this reason attention has to be given to exhalation, otherwise the nervousactive temperament grows irritable. In low altitudes, especially where there is a great deal of hydrogen in the air, irrespective of the presence of ozone, inhalations are difficult and demand much muscular effort. Exhalation comes with ease, but only too frequently is the result of muscular pressure. Much depends upon temperament. Some possess greater nerve activity, others enjoy better circulation. The one determines more force in inhalation, the other in exhalation. Certain temperaments readily adjust themselves to rythmic breathing irrespective of altitude, others need change of climate and resort to higher altitude before the dynamics respond at all to rythm. In higher altitudes and in nervous-active temperaments residing in lower altitudes more attention must be given to exhalation. The lungs should be thoroughly emptied every three hours, or five times a day. Such observances will make it possible for the blood to be purified, while the nervous system |