This post only includes an introduction to the essay. For the full essay, please visit our new Air Hunger Help website.
This is the third installment in a three-part article series accompanying the video How To Get Through Air Hunger, with Simon Spire (available on the LNB website). This third article includes a text version of the third section of the video (15:55-26:20), which provides context for understanding the process of restoring natural breathing and our program, Liberating the Natural Breath, which is designed specifically to help people suffering from non-medical air hunger (also sometimes referred to as chronic breathing tension, hyperventilation, breathlessness, shortness of breath, pseudo-dyspnea, or chronic sighing).
Help for Those Struggling with Air Hunger
and Chronic Breathing Tension
In this final article, I’ll share understandings around why restoring natural breathing typically requires being in a process rather than finding a quick fix, along with some information about Liberating the Natural Breath, which is the online course we offer to help people get through air hunger.
Let’s return to a point made in the first article: What causes air hunger? The short answer is it’s the result of accumulated habitual tension and interference with your natural breathing, which causes you to get stuck in a self-reinforcing pattern of trying to compensate with effortful chest-breathing or with some other variation of tense and dysfunctional breathing.