Indian and eastern sages realized thousands of years ago that by controlling your breathing, you can amazingly maintain health and ward off illnesses. According to Indian philosophy, a person in each incarnation is given a certain number of inhalations and exhalations. One who breathes quickly and quickly dies earlier, since a person cannot take more breaths than he is given. On the other hand, one who leads a quiet life and breathes rarely maintains health and lives long. People in the East are not easily agitated because they, and this is very wise, strive to use their earthly life for spiritual improvement. They shake their heads when they see their brethren in the West shorten this divine gift called life by feverish activity and the resulting hasty, shallow breathing.