Guess what action you've performed more often than any other in your life? Is it eating? Sleeping? Crying? Laughing?
No! Give up? It's breathing! You've been breathing pretty much non-stop since you were born, with few exceptions.
So with all those years of practice you probably think you've figured out how to do it properly by now. Would it surprise you to learn that your breathing technique was probably better when you were an infant than it is today?
Watch the way a baby breathes when it's lying on its back. The baby's little abdomen moves up and down with each breath, going up when the baby breathes in, and down when the baby breathes out.
This action is caused by the diaphragm, a powerful muscle located below the lungs. It is the movement of the diaphragm that pumps air in and out of the lungs.
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