In English
or wind/air that comes next, sustains life. Without air, life is impossible. The breathing process consists of inhalation and exhalation, symbolised by . SO is associated with inhalation and HAM with exhalation. Since we take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide, SO is associated with the life-giving oxygen and HAM with the contaminant carbon dioxide. What is the inner meaning of the breathing process? Simply that we have to take in what is good and give up what is bad. This is the lesson that the element air conveys to us 21,600 times a day, through the principle. The body also takes in food and expels excreta or faeces.