Hello, I recommend you take a look at the resources on this page www.simonspire.com/breathing-resources including the article titled What Causes Air Hunger? at www.simonspire.com/blog/2023/9/3/what-causes-air-hunger In that article you'll find a section with the heading Airway Issues, which provides some information relevant to your DNS question.

The second section of the video you're commenting on (beginning at 9:19) provides some basic recommendations. The rest of our suggestions and resources can be found here: www.simonspire.com/breathing-resources I hope you find them helpful.

Glad to hear you found the video helpful! You can find more tips and suggestions using these resources, too: New video, How To Get Through Air Hunger: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6rVqoudd8Rqg5I All public resources, plus in-depth course and community, at: www.liberatingbreath.com www.simonspire.com/breathing-resources Testimonials: www.simonspire.com/breathing-testimonials FAQs: www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs

The title of this video is "air hunger explained: causes of..." If you're looking for instructions for next steps, please watch this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6rVqoudd8Rqg5I and visit these pages: All public resources, plus in-depth course and community, at: www.liberatingbreath.com Testimonials: www.simonspire.com/breathing-testimonials FAQs: www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs

Bro that must be tortures? I have it for 2.5 years now. My breath feels stuck in the chest and it’s permanently tight there. Like I can’t relax those tiny muscles from solar plexus to chest anymore. And I basically feel like suffocating all day. Is that the same you have? It’s chronic for me

@@stormtraders yes. Do you notice that it gets better only in the morning after you wake up ?

@@joeycalogerohip-hop3727 no not really it’s there all the time now, even when i wake up from sleep. Do you have that too? And do you have any tricks for relief?

Please check the FAQs page. Scholarships are available. www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs

Thanks for your comment, Carol. Just a quick note to say that we don't recommend having Alexander lessons on their own, which often don't help enough for people with air hunger. Rather, we recommend people following the guidelines outlined on this page, including taking the course: www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs (I saw your other comment; there's also something on that page about reflux)

I had it two years ago and it went away on its own after a few months. 5 months ago it came back to me. I am truly devastated 💔

I am experiencing exactly what you described in your comment and it started when I was 19 for me too. I am 22 now and I have been Living all of this for the last 3 years. It's a nightmare, I am so afraid. I will never solve this problem. It all started after the covid vaccine, I started experiencing weight to my chest, chest pain, heavy breathlessness, arrhythmias, fatigue and so on. I got diagnosed with pericarditis, my cardiologist told me the heart is now in a good state, but I still have all these symptoms.

@@saragriselda7393 yeah we are in a similar boat. Really hoping you find progress. The only other thing I’ve been told to try is testing my Ferritin levels

It was the same with me. I'm also 22 years old, I've been feeling out of breath since I was 14 years old, and it's gone. I am currently experiencing a relapse of shortness of breath and yawning all the time. And my oxygen saturation is also 98. I even run every day with a distance of 3-5 KM without walking. I am also confused by the doctor. The doctor said everything from my mind was psychosomatic. And when I'm busy or happy, the tightness disappears and I feel unconscious and breathe normally. But when I remember later the breath is not relieved again

Excellent comment and analysis! May have hit the head of the nail for me! Gerard

In our experience and in what we teach and the process we lead people through, yes, it does go away. But in our experience, it requires being in a process. For some people, improvements and resolution are quicker; for others, it takes longer. FAQs: www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs

How do I sign up for this process?

@@nataliatozour6964 Thanks for your interest. All info is available at www.liberatingbreath.com including links to the course itself, FAQs, etc. Hope to see you in the course.

To answer this more fully, I'd need to write an article outlining some of the various approaches people use as they attempt to address air hunger and how these approaches relate to one another or not. I might do that at some point. For now, I'll say that while we consider CO2 imbalance to potentially play a role in the self-reinforcing dynamics of air hunger, we see the root cause-in most cases-as being disruption of the natural breathing coordination through interference (e.g., tension, restriction, malcoordination, misalignment, confusion). We created and recommend our approach (through our course Liberating the Natural Breath) because it's comprehensive: It addresses not just the self-reinforcing dynamics of air hunger, but also the underlying causes that keep it in place-and it does this without exacerbating these dysfunctional dynamics with further interference and disruption. We created it to guide people through addressing the multiple levels involved in air hunger without compounding the situation through further interference, and this is why we recommend it. We also support people in pursuing whatever works for them, so if someone wants to try another approach instead of LNB and it works well enough for them, then we're happy for them. We're committed to offering LNB as a comprehensive approach and to supporting people through that process. All public resources, plus the in-depth online course and community, can be found at www.liberatingbreath.com and www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs

@@simonspire Thank you for the response, I'd love to read a comparison article on the various approaches! Both the Buteyko and capnometry biofeedback communities discuss breathing habits and emphasize the importance of not controlling one's breath. For example, Peter Litchfield (one of the main people in the capnometry biofeedback world) says this over and over in his writings and lectures. One of the core beginner exercises in Buteyko breathing is relaxed breathing where the diaphragm is simply relaxed rather than pushing the air out (see e.g. Artour Rakhimov's writings or Novozhilov's Buteyko Breathing Manual). So the differences between LNB and Buteyko/capnometry biofeedback are not so clear to me, so I'd be quite interested in hearing more about the differences in the approaches as you see it.

​@@issarice Thanks for elaborating more on your question. I'm glad that's the overall understanding you're encountering in what you're reading. I don't want to speak for Buteyko, since I think Buteyko experts are the ones who are qualified to speak about it. In our experience, we've had a lot of people come through LNB who had previously tried Buteyko courses, teachers, and practices. Typically, their experience included regular breathing exercises that often (but not always) were quite intensive and usually involved breath holds and the like. Sometimes these exercises made their air hunger worse (because they can easily add to the existing interference); sometimes they didn't have much impact; other times, people experienced temporary but not lasting improvement (which may be due to addressing the most noticeable levels of interference but not the real source of the interference, so the problematic symptoms can soon return). I also know there are some people with air hunger who have been satisfied with their Buteyko experience and improvement. Reading the FAQs page I posted above may give you more of a sense of what's different about LNB. LNB is based on the Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique is designed to support restoration of the coordination and alignment of the whole muscular-skeletal system. It's capable of getting to the deepest levels of interference/tension/misalignment that are often at the source of problematic breathing. We do this in LNB by entering a process of making the unconscious interference conscious in our somatic experience, which allows the opportunity for these deep sources of restriction and interference to begin to unwind. LNB seeks to address all levels of chronic breathing disruption, but this process I'm mentioning now of restoring natural coordination by unwinding unconscious interference is the basis of the deeper change process in LNB. Most other approaches to breathing aren't designed to do that. Instead, they attempt to retrain breathing with exercises that are unlikely to get to the fundamental levels of interference. Of course normal/natural breathing should be the end goal of any breathing method-so it's great that we all agree on that-but there are differences in how various approaches try to get there. LNB is based on principles and practices of the Alexander Technique, and we created it as a process that is capable of getting to the underlying/unconscious layers of interference and tension that are usually at the root of breathing tension. Until those layers are addressed to some degree, most people remain stuck in significant ways.

That's what I'm doing what a nightmare

Thank you for your interest. There's not a lot more we can say than what's already in the videos, FAQs page, and course description (see links at the bottom of this comment), and we can't say a lot about individual cases on KZbin. However, we do recommend discussing the symptoms you're describing (tingling, etc.) with a doctor. It's possible they could be related to breathing difficulties, but we don't have a lot of experience with those specific symptoms. The "general feeling of not having enough air" is definitely one of the experiences the course is designed to address, assuming it's from breathing disruption/interference rather than medical issues. The answer to your final question-is our course designed to help with poor breathing habits built up over the years-is yes, that's very much within the scope of what it's designed for. Hope that clarifies things a little. Here are the links and resources: All our public resources, plus the in-depth online course and community, can be found at www.liberatingbreath.com and www.simonspire.com/breathing-resources and www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs

Actually, come to think of it, we have seen these kinds of symptoms before when there's accumulated deep tension along the back and spine. (Of course, this doesn't mean this is necessarily the case for you, and this is not a substitute for medical advice.) If you do decide to join the program, we can talk about it in more detail and in the context of your particular experience during the next Office Hours on February 10.

@@simonspire Appreciate the replies. I'll be visiting my doctor soon just to rule out the possibility of a condition(s), but if everything looks good I'll probably join the course in the next couple of months.

@@condottiero3466 All sounds good, and all the best with the next steps.

Hi Sara, we're not able to respond in much detail here, and in order to do your question justice, we would need to go into some detail and also know more about your individual situation. In the full course, Liberating the Natural Breath, we cover this topic of easing off of strenuous or triggering exercises so that you can more easily engage in the process of restoring your breathing (and then gradually build back in more strenuous exercise once your breathing has become more easeful and resilient). All our public resources, plus the in-depth online course and community, can be found at www.liberatingbreath.com and www.simonspire.com/breathing-resources and www.simonspire.com/breathing-faqs