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Deep breathing stretches and strengthens your diaphragm. Practice diaphragmatic breathing several times a day. Lie flat on your back, with your knees slightly bent. Place one hand on your chest and one on your stomach. Breathe in deeply through your nose using your stomach but keep your diaphragm relaxed at first. You should see the hand on your stomach move upward as you inhale, but the hand on your chest should remain still. Exhale deeply, tightening your stomach muscles(mainly upper abdomen) while tightening the lower sternum muscle at the end of your breath and keeping the hand on your chest still. Repeat four times. <==] This breathing technique worked great I felt great relief after doing it and my stomach is now digesting properly it's making much more noise that I haven't heard in weeks I'm breathing much better now too. I'm a 20 year old male. 6'1, 155. My esophagus was swelt up and I was having sinus congestion with indigestion and constipation with slight chest pains and was spitting up white phlegm. But I'm feeling much better now after this, you should give it a try pretty much you inhale using your stomach then while you exhale flex your upper abdomen and right and the end of your breath you tighten the sternum muscles feels like your pushing your stomach out of your diaphragm well atleast for me it did. My biggest part of my body is my chest i have a chicken chest that sticks out and I use to excessively work out which tightened my diaphragm muscles, but I stopped working out months ago & recently for these past couple of months I was depressed due to being fired from my very very close relatives owned Italian restaurant, aunt & uncle, first cousins that I grew up with pretty much like brothers, was working full time too (got impatient with slow workers that liked to cause problems with the youngest person of the family, my uncle said I was the problem and within a week they let me go) I'm totally regretful for getting impatient I miss my fam a lot, so I lost all of my muscles and a lot of weight, was keeping my head down when I walked and stomach towards my diaphragm when I sat, I was also sleeping on the floor at my friends for awhile on my chest which probably flattened my diaphragm & the muscles which caused my stomach to slightly go up past my hiatus, these past 6 months have been the worst experience of my life but I've gotten through the struggle and with this breathing technique I felt relief all over my body, my throat instantly felt like it started healing I can breath much better too no more chest pains, then slight sweating probably cause part of my stomach was up there for quite a while, but man do I feel better wheewww!