What is diaphragmatic breathing? Honestly, I think it depends a bit on who you ask. All inhalation will use your diaphragm, but I've found slightly different instructions for "diaphragmatic breathing" in music, exercise, and martial arts, etc for example. I just take it as a deeper, relaxing type of breathing. The "horizontal inhale" cue seems to help a lot with this. It may not match the description you may have read somewhere. I was originally taught that the proper way to do this was to not h