True Diaphragmatic Breathing

Belly breathing is NOT diaphragmatic breathing!!!

Belly breathing is NOT diaphragmatic breathing!!!
Simply contracting your diaphragm, compressing your viscera to expand your belly is not enough to call it functional respiration.  It's only half the story... your lungs are NOT in your stomach!!!!! 
For it to be true respiration with diaphragmatic contraction, the rib cage must remain down in the front and held back in the torso by the abdominal wall.  The deep abdominal wall works with the diaphragm to support respiration and dynamic structural integrity.  Diaphragmatic contraction without abdominal support is NOT functional respiration, and should never be mistaken for diaphragmatic breathing.
You breathe 23,000x per day, wouldn't it be nice to know how to do it right?!