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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No, air goes in your lungs. The difference is that when you breathe through your chest, it’s the small rib-cage muscles that expand your thorax so that the lungs suck in air.
When you breathe in through your belly, it’s your diaphragm that expands and allows the lungs to suck in air, and pushes the content of your belly outwards. It’s just a side-effect.
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