How can you speak using your diaphragm?
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Diaphragm breathing is used, for example, in singing and playing the flute; because it enables you to take in more air, and it gives you more control over your breathing. People normally breathe in their chest. You can tell if you're using chest breathing because your shoulders rise and fall. With diaphragm breathing it is the stomach region that moves. Diaphragm breathing is a much deeper breathing than chest breathing. It is also quite difficult to achieve properly. \n\nTo manage it, you have to take a slow, deep breath, remembering not to move your chest. Do it standing or lying down; you have to make a conscious effort to get the air into your stomach (this doesn't really happen, but it feels like it. The reason diaphragmatic breathing gets more air into you is that the diaphragm muscle stretches the lungs so that most of them fill up with air. It helps to have a hand on your stomach, or to have someone watching you and telling you that you're moving your shoulders. You can also lie down and put a pile of books on your stomach, so that you can see whenever they rise or fall. When you breathe out, try to keep your stomach (and the books) up, by keeping the diaphragm tense.\n\nIt's quite difficult, but practice makes perfect. :)\n\nP.S.: "Many Mockingbirds are actually mimicking Cell Phone ring-tones now."\n\nLol snagelfritz!!! I never knew that! But I swear that once I was whistling "Green Grow the Rushes" and a starling whistled it back.
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My dad taught me a way that always works. Plug your ears and nose and swallow 5 times without breathing. If you can't swallow 5 times, just do the most you can.
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One good way to learn to recognize the volume of your voice is to hang out in a library for a little while.  The quietness of the library will help you to control your volume.\n\nThat helped me because I used to talk loud cause I grew up with a family that was hard of hearing.
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Men and women both make that grunt. It is used in virtually all the sports. \n\nBy expelling air at the same time you hit the ball, you increase your power to the max by tightening your abdominal muscles. It also promotes good breathing by reducing the tendency that you will hold your breath in a tense situation.
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Stick your index fingers into your ears and breath normal for about 10 - 15 seconds.  It works for me better than the water trick.
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Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphram.  Hold your breath and while doing so, take your middle knuckle and hold it against your windpipe.  This keeps any air from getting through.  It has always worked for me.  It's probably the same principle as people telling you to try and drink water while you are holding your breath, however I think it's more effective than drinking water, because you aren't allowing any air to get in.
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Physically you make the vowel sound of the letter "a" but you open up your velum.  Now, that's easier said that done, but that's the physical process.  The velum is the muscle that closes the nasal passage and prevents air from going out through your nose.  You open it to make the "m", "n" and "ng" sounds in English.\n\nOpening the velum allows air to flow out through the nose.  Say "con" (as in "con job") and, without changing anything about the other sounds, carefully say it without the "n".  The "o" is nasalized before the "n" in English.  So that's the sound you are shooting for.
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Microsoft windows xp and 2000 had a built in program that does that for you. Click Start>then click Control Panel> click on Speech icon and follow the prompts. Good luck!
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a great one to use? go to their website to learn more about it! here http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/
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Hiccups are causes by your diaphragm being in spasm.  So my theory is try to get the diaphragm out of spasm by tweaking it.  Breathe in deeply and expand your chest and push out your stomach muscles.  Hold it for as long as you can, and then repeat.  It does work most of the time.\n\nIf you would a long list of possible solutions please check this link.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccups
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Have you tried Singing this helps with stammering as you use a different part of you brain to control your voice, than you use when talking. Also breathing exercises are very helpful and don't try to say every thing at once, just slow down and take your time there is no hurry.\nHealth, Peace and Happiness.
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Be sure you are taking in as much air as you are expelling. Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. Try not to suck air in through your mouth. Tell yourself "Inhale, Exhale".
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Try this experiment. Stand up. Relax your stomach muscles as much as possible. Now recite a poem. What you'll discover is that the "focal point" of your voice is located in the throat.\n\nNow, tighten your abdominals and repeat the same poem. You'll notice that your voice is stronger, and the "focal point" is much lower down. This is speaking from the diaphagm. It's a common practice among stage actors that is often known as "voice projection;" and the more you practice it, the more powerful and commanding a voice you'll develop. Hope this helps. \n\nCheers, mate.
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Stand with your hands at your sides.  SLOWLY raise your arms up "trying to reach the edge of a circle that you CAN'Y QUITE REACH' and clasp your hands with straight arms above your head for 4 seconds.  Then go back down trying to "reach the edge of the circle" but a bit faster and rest for 4 seconds.  Do TEN of these, three times a day.  DON'T TRY AND BREATHE A SPECIAL WAY, you will breathe naturally.  This "trying to reach the edge of the circle" strengthens the diaphragm, which is where the air for the voice starts from
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You've probably experienced a muscle spasm in your leg or arm where your muscle contracts and relaxes uncontrollably.\n\nThe diaphragm is a muscle that controls breathing. When the diaphragm spasms, the opening between your vocal cords snaps shut to check the inflow of air and makes the hiccup sound.\n\nThe exact cause of the spasms is not known.
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The way that works 100% of the time for me is:\nTake in all the air you can into your lungs and hold it while taking a small glass of water and drinking it with the smallest gulps you can. Do this until you can't hold your breath any longer. Works first try for me. The constant swallowing action distracts your esophagus and diaphragm long enough to make it forget about the hiccups.
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Get ready with your speech beforehand Try giving the sppech in front of your close friends. Do formulate your strategy like what will be the beginning, the middle and lastly the conclusion. Try modulation of your voice  which sentence to speak forcefully and which in lower tone.