In MIDL Mindfulness Training 29/52, you cultivate the skill of re-engaging the diaphragm to turn of the habitual stress response. This is part of the MIDL skill of deconditioning habitual defensive patterns of mind. Once this skill of 'abandoning' through the re-engaging of the diaphragm has been developed, it can be used in seated meditation for calming the five hindrances to meditation and in daily life as a way of deconditioning harmful habitual patterns of reaction.