When you take a deep breath, your shoulders go up because your lungs expand. When you breathe through your belly, your belly expands but lungs not much. What are you expanding? Does the air go into your stomach?
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Your shoulders are entirely outside your ribcage. Raising your shoulders to take a deep breath does exactly nothing to help. The ONLY way you breathe is when your diaphragm tenses up. In doing so, it flattens out. Relaxed, it’s curved to the bottom shape of your lungs. by flattening out it expands the area your lungs occupy, thereby drawing air in.
Now, by ‘belly’ breathing all you’re really doing is allowing the diaphragm to operate with less resistance. Given practice, it’s possible to expand your lung capacity a little. This is how singers can hold notes for 20 seconds or longer without passing out.
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