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This is the first 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 first article covers the causes of air hunger, a condition that is sometimes also referred to as chronic breathing tension, hyperventilation syndrome, breathlessness, shortness of breath, pseudo-dyspnea, or chronic sighing.
What Causes Air Hunger and Chronic Breathing Tension?
What causes non-medical air hunger? I think a full answer needs to address three facets of this condition. First, what is happening in our body when we develop chronic breathing tension and experience air hunger? Second, what triggers the onset of these dysfunctional breathing patterns? And third, what makes our breathing vulnerable to these triggers such that we end up developing chronic breathing tension? In this article, I’ll seek to address these three aspects of the onset of air hunger.