What is Diaphragmatic Breathing?
When you practice diaphragmatic breathing you breathe deeply into your belly using your diaphragm muscle to support the inhalation and exhalation of each breath. Practicing diaphragmatic breathing will be a key factor in your ability to achieve natural migraine relief. Diaphragmatic breathing is unlike thoracic breathing, otherwise known as “chest breathing”. In thoracic breathing you breathe shallowly into your chest using your neck, shoulder and upper back muscles to help you breathe. This is not a good habit to maintain if you want to achieve natural migraine relief. Your upper body muscles do most of the work in thoracic breathing where as the belly and diaphragm do most of the work when you practice diaphragmatic breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing is often referred to as abdominal breathing, belly breathing or deep breathing. Though diaphragmatic breathing is the most natural and healthy way for us to be breathing many of us have become thoracic breathers. Some believe this is due
