Stand with your feet spread and shoulder-width apart and extend your arms out to your sides, approximately at shoulder height, your left palm whould face upward, and your right should face downward. (Holding the left palm faceup tightens the body, helping to stretch the muscles.) Make sure that you take full, deep breaths. If you can, try to stand in this position for a full ten minutes. (I myself have never made it past eight.) The longer you can do it, however, the better. When you get to the point where your'e too tired to hold your arms up any longer, still keeping them straight, slowly raise them above your head, without allowing them to come forward. Then, lower them to your sides. Because many patients find this exercise too demanding, we've devised a variation: sit on a couch and place your arms along the back, also with your left palm up and right palm down, and sit still for fifteen minutes. This exercise puts a good tension on the muscles in and around the arms and strengthens the back muscles. If you're doing this correctly, you should soon start to feel the tissues in the shoulders opening up, allowing your respiration to expand