DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING

Dr Ian Ellis-JonesBA, LLB (Syd), LLM, PhD (UTS), Dip Relig Stud (LCIS), Adv Mgmt Cert (STC)

Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Walesand the High Court of AustraliaPrincipal, Ian Ellis-Jones, Lawyer

Director, Ellis-Jones Enterprises Pty LimitedVisiting Associate, NSW Institute of Psychiatry

Former Senior Lecturer-in-Law, University of Technology, SydneyCommissioner of Inquiry under the Local Government Act (NSW)

Retreat Director, Mediator, Facilitator, Trainer and Consultant

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DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING

• The floor of the chest cavity which contains the lungs is made up of the diaphragm

• The diaphragm is a great dome of flattish muscle ...

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... at the bottom of the chest between the lungs and the stomach

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• The diaphragm has the capacity to move ...–upwards and downwards ... and

inwards and outwards ...... changing the volume of - the chest cavity, and- its passive occupants, the lungs.

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Sadly, most people hardly

use their diaphragm when

breathing.

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• ha'ole [pronounced “hao' leh”]• Hawaiian slang for Caucasian

• ha'ole means “without breath” or “without life” ... [ha = breath of life]• the term given to the Christian

missionaries by the native Hawaiians • the missionaries appeared not to

breathe at all ... breathing ever so shallowly and inadequately.

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• The diaphragm ...–is the principal muscle used for exhaling

–rises as you exhale ... making the chest cavity shorter again.

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• Use your abdominal muscles in this way to control your breathing.

• The diaphragm is a muscle you can't see, so you have to focus on the muscles in front …

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One wayof doing that is

as follows ...

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• If somebody is about to hit you in the abdomen, what do you ordinarily do?

• You tense your abdominal muscles.

• Do so now ...

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• Slightly tense your abdominal muscles.

• At the same time, push your abdomen outwards as you breathe in.

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The diaphragm descends (“lowers”) and the ribs move

upwards and outwards ... making the chest cavity

longer and larger.

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The diaphragm and intercostal muscles ...the muscles between

the ribs ... should be used to take the in-breath to the middle and

lower parts of the lungs.