Hi @luisc9801, I would say that's a bit trivialized as the method entails a holistic approach of many aspects of living, but if overbreathing and functional breathing dysfunction seems to be causing the air hunger, then yes, one part of it is getting the body to respond better to less breathing instead of overbreathing all the time and trying to satisfy the air hunger. Similar to overeating; if you eat too much all the time the body will keep responding with hunger. But if you eat less after eating too much, the body will still respond with hunger until after a while it no longer expects as much food and hunger will reduce.

Over time as one retrains their breathing to a normal nasal breathing at a rate less than their used to, it can induce the feeling of air hunger, which you would attempt to ignore it as long as possible, the idea being it subsides as your body adjusts to a more normal rate of breathing and volume.

But other parts of the method entail breath holds to build up CO2 and thus O2 comes in and replaces the O2, allowing more blood oxygen flow and getting the body more used to slightly higher levels of CO2, especially if an abnormal amount is breathed out due to chronic hyperventilation and overbreathing.

After doing any of the breath holding exercises, the idea is that you would, as quickly as possible, slow the rate of recovery breathing down and breathe shallowly as a way of training the body to breathe more efficiently in less time, which will induce air hunger, but when done long enough and with an improved Control Pause, that air hunger response will subside over time.

But controlled nasal breathing is also a way of reducing your breathing without inducing air hunger, since many people who have developed this condition are probably breathing a lot through the mouth out of habit, like I did, until I retrained myself to breathe only through the nose whenever possible.