Breathing is essential

You need to breathe fresh air all the time. It is essential for your survival. You can well live without food for a few weeks. Many people do this in a willingly act to abstain from food, called fasting. You can also survive without water for some days (which won’t be so good for your health). But without fresh air you will die after a few short minutes, or at least your brain will suffer severe damage. The reason for this is that the body, especially the brain, needs huge amounts of oxygen to function. And furthermore the body has no mechanisms to store oxygen.

So the oxygen in the air is absolutely necessary for your life. Fresh air is life energy. You breathe in to supply your body with fresh energy. And you breathe out to free your body of carbon dioxide. Read the rest of this entry »