This description is about a practice of deep breathing. Deep breathing is a form of relaxation that can help reduce stress and anxiety. It can also help improve overall health and wellbeing. This practice involves taking deep, slow breaths in and out, focusing on the breath and allowing the body to relax.
Diaphragmatic breathing, abdominal breathing, belly breathing, or deep breathing is a breathing technique that is done by contracting the diaphragm, a muscle located horizontally between the thoracic cavity and abdominal cavity. Air enters the lungs as the diaphragm strongly contracts, but unlike traditional relaxed breathing (eupnea) the intercostal muscles of the chest do minimal work in this process. The belly also expands during this type of breathing to make room for the contraction of the diaphragm.