Air Hunger & Anxiety: Breathing Lesson to Stop Overbreathing & Find Relief with Coach Erin Wilson

🫁 Air hunger can feel overwhelming, like no breath is ever enough. This guided breathing practice is designed as a first step toward calming your system and restoring balance. Begin here.

If you’ve ever felt like you can’t get a satisfying breath, you have the urge to breathe MORE, this guided breathing practice is for you. This video is designed as a starting place for anyone struggling with:
• Air hunger (feeling like you can’t get enough air)
• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Hyperventilation syndrome
• Breathing pattern disorders
• Stress-related shortness of breath

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🫁 Why This Practice Works

When we feel stressed or anxious, our breathing pattern often shifts without us realizing it. We may start over-breathing—too fast, too shallow, or taking in too much air volume (especially with mouth breathing or paradoxical breathing). This disrupts the natural balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body and leaves us feeling lightheaded, panicked, or like we can’t exhale fully.

The key is not just “doing more breathwork” but going back to the foundations of breathing biomechanics:

✅ Respiratory diaphragm activation – learning how to flatten and expand the diaphragm on the inhale, then allow it to recoil naturally on the exhale.
✅ Gentle pace – practicing slower, softer inhales with longer, controlled exhales.
✅ Consistency – retraining your nervous system over time so the diaphragm becomes your default breathing muscle.

The respiratory diaphragm is directly connected to the vagus nerve and your parasympathetic nervous system state (the “rest and restore” response). That means every correct breath helps calm your body, reduce anxiety, and reset your physiology toward balance.

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👩‍⚕️ My Background & Approach

I’m not a medical doctor or therapist — this is not medical or therapeutic advice. I’m a breathing coach, yoga teacher, physiologist, and wellness coach with a Master’s in Physiology. I overcame air hunger, breathing pattern disorder, chronic pain, and major anxiety naturally, by changing my breath, lifestyle, and mindset.

Now, I coach clients one-on-one through my program where we:
1. Retrain dysfunctional breathing patterns
2. Balance overall well-being and lifestyle habits
3. Reprogram limiting beliefs around health, anxiety, and resilience

This guided session is a resource I recommend to clients and newcomers — a gentle, safe place to begin retraining your breath.

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🧘 Guided Practice: Start Here

In this lesson, you’ll practice:
• A soft, easy inhale (instead of a forceful “big deep breath”)
• A longer, slower exhale for calm and balance
• Gentle pacing to reconnect with your natural rhythm
• Using the right muscles for breathing, not just the chest or shoulders

Save this video and return to it often. Over time, your respiratory diaphragm will strengthen, your nervous system will regulate, and air hunger will begin to ease.

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📚 More Resources

I’ve also written an in-depth blog article on air hunger and breathing pattern disorder that dives deeper into the science and strategies: [Insert Blog Link Here]

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⚠️ Important Note

Always get medical clearance first to rule out other causes of shortness of breath. Once cleared, breathing retraining can be a powerful, natural tool for restoring balance to your body and mind.

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✨ If you’ve been struggling with air hunger, start here — this guided session will help you slow down, retrain your breathing pattern, and reconnect with your body in a safe, supportive way.

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