In general Abdominal breathing is moving in and out our abdomen. it is an exercise to convert our fat within our belly.

There is also added benefit which is connecting our perineum with coccyx bone aka. tail bone, in which make a pathway for the energy created in the abdomen to travel along the spine to the brain.

There are 2 types of abdominal breathing,

1. Normal Abdominal breathing, popularized by Buddhist community
2. Reverse Abdominal breathing, popularized by Taoist community

Normal abdominal breathing push the abdomen out when breathing in and push in when breathe out while slightly contract the perineum point.

In Reverse abdominal breathing, we need to push out our abdomen when we breathe out and push in the abdomen while we breathe in along with slightly contract our perineum point.

_{note: in case you do not know what is perineum point is a point in front of our anus. We usually contract it when we want to hold our poo.}

Normal abdominal breathing is more relaxing as we tend to breathe out more than breathe in. The energy will travel along the spinal chord to the brain when we breathe out.

On the other hand, reverse abdominal breathing, will suck in energy from the perineum to the brain when we breathe in. Reverse breathing offer greater energy to the brain thus very effective for practicing other more advance meditation practice. However, only do this breathing technique, when our mind in relax and balance state, agitated mind and emotions tend to get boosted. There are a lot of people who broke down its nerve and blood vessel when there are too much energy in the brain while the emotion is not stable yet.

Practice normal abdominal breathing first, settle our emotions down, then turn to reverse breathing afterward.