2006-07-11 10:47:56 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
When I intentionally breathe My stomach or abdomen does. It is the correct way to breathe for relaxing and for singing and general health. Babies always breathe from the diaphragm making their stomach rise and lower. I guess on this one we can learn from the babies.
2006-07-11 10:54:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're breathing poperly, actually it IS your stomach that goes in and out instead of your chest. And a couple times a day you should take deep breaths in through your nose like that, when your stomach rises (like you'll notice on a baby), hold it for a count of 5 and then let it slowly out your mouth. This really oxygenates your blood. If only your chest rises, you are breathing too shallow, not getting really enough oxygen in your blood.
2006-07-11 17:53:47 · answer #2 · answered by Rvn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your stomach does not, your abdomen does. Your diaphragm is a muscle that expnads and contracts, it is located right under the lungs so when it expands, you exhale becuase it pushes the air out, the "in"; when it contracts the lungs are filled with air and you breathe in, causing the "out".
2006-07-11 17:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by mvp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a large muscle under your lungs that swings up and down which makes you breath, its around the stomach area!
2006-07-11 17:51:09 · answer #4 · answered by Jonathan T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The muscle that actually makes you breathe is a diaphragm, it is located just under you ribs in your stomach. Works just like any other muscle by relaxing and contracting.
2006-07-11 17:50:30 · answer #5 · answered by centralfiresafety 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your whole torso does, chest and abdomen included. When you breath, the air intake expands your lungs, and that moves everything else with it. Since the lower part of your chest is adjacent to it, and partly supported by the ribs, it moves also.
2006-07-11 17:51:06 · answer #6 · answered by Jack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is your lungs - not your stomach. EXCEPT when my oldest was a toddler, he wasn't acting sick but the doctor said his tummy (not his chest) was going in and out was a sign of pneumonia. IT WAS too. Just for a piece of knowledge you may be able to use later (or someone might). He wasn't acting any sicker than a cold. They immediately hospitalized him.
2006-07-11 17:51:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your stomach doesn't go in and out - your diaphragm does. It expands to create a vacuum in your lungs to pull in air, and contracts so that the air can be released by the pressure difference.
2006-07-11 17:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was taking EMT class (Emergcy Medical Technician), we were taught that there were two kinds of breathers...belly breathers and chest breathers.
Usually it's the women that are more the belly breathers (stomach goes up and down), but not always. The men are usually the chest breathers.
2006-07-11 17:52:15 · answer #9 · answered by Voice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because your lungs expand when you breathe in and out so thats is why that happens
2006-07-11 17:56:42 · answer #10 · answered by Alisa 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋