How do I know if I'm singing from my diaphragm?

Singing from your diaphragm?

• I don't know if I'm singing from my diaphragm or not, but when I think I'm singing from it, it just sound like im talking loudly, HELP!!!!!!!!

• Answer:

  The Diaphragm is the primary muscle for inhaling. Just as the bicep is attached to the bones of your arm, so the diaphragm is attached to your bottom pair of ribs and to a central tendon in the center of your chest attached to the bottom end or you sternum running through your body under your heart to your backbone. As the diaphragm contracts it pulls downward on this central tendon creating the vacuum in your chest causing your lungs to inflate. As you inhale, your abdominal muscles should be completely relaxed. As you exhale your abs should close in around your naval.