Diaphragm Stimulation Exercise for Curing Hiccups

Let’s take a look at another good breathing exercise to help you cure the hiccups. This exercise uses a combination of controlled breathing and visualization to stimulate the diaphragm and cure your hiccups.

This is another good breathing exercise to practice as it promotes good mental health, stress relief and lowers blood pressure.

By nature the hiccups are occurring because your diaphragm is working against your body instead of with it. This exercise is designed to get the two working together in order to cure your hiccups.

How to Stimulate Your Diaphragm to Cure the Hiccups

1. First take several slow deep breaths. While you are doing this focus on the feeling you have in your abdomen.
2. As you take in a slow deep breath feel you chest and lungs expand as allow your stomach muscles to relax.
3. While doing this you should feel the muscle wall between your chest and abdomen drop down.
4. Breath out, and as you do focus on the feeling of your chest contacting. As you do this, tighten and pull up your stomach muscles. This will raise your stomach wall.
5. The best way to visualize this is by imagining that will you are breathing you need to make space for the air in your chest. When you breathe out visualize how this space contracts within your body.

This is the basic method used for controlled breathing by singers, martial artists and yoga practitioners as well as many other sports and hobbies that utilize controlling your breath.

Practice this exercise for several minutes and you should notice that your hiccups have been cured. If your hiccups have not gone away by this point be patient and try another exercise on the site to help cure your hiccups.