Action and States

The author seems to support a theory that posits action precedes states, so that we feel amused because we laughed, angry because we hit something, or we are afraid, because we tremble.

When one contracts abdominal muscles as directed, to expel as much air as can be expelled, which is about 1100 milliliters, the first time of expiring has more powerful effect, let us call this the first force of expiration. If, therefore, one pushes the lower abdomen with the first force as one expires a little bit, one will be able, if repeated, to place a tension In the tanden, and thus contribute to his or her own mental and physical stabilities.