In the pursuit of HiLevel, your most powerful tool is your breath. As a HiLevel Performance Coach and Breathing Specialist, I've developed a comprehensive system that transforms this natural process into an advantage for performers, athletes, and leaders who demand excellence.
This proven four-phase framework integrates precision breathing techniques with mental conditioning to help you perform under extreme pressure, enhance recovery, and maintain complete focus during critical moments.
Whether you're preparing for crucial moments, executing over the long haul, recovering from an illness, coping with severe loss, or serving as a caregiver, these techniques will help you harness your breath to unlock your full potential.
Phase One - Preparation: Setting the Foundation
Breathing Technique: Master the settle-down breath to create calm and manage confidence.
Mental Focus: Visualize and internalize clear expectations and desired outcomes.
Phase Two - Execution: Perform at Your Best
Breathing Technique: Employ performance breathing to create intensity, power, and precision.
Mental Focus: Channel your passion while maintaining balance between thoughts and emotions.
Phase Three - Completion: Growth and Recovery
Breathing Technique: Build mental resilience through controlled breath-holds and recovery breaths.
Mental Focus: Process results, learn from experience, and strengthen your capacity for growth.
Phase Four - Integration: Mastering Reality
Breathing Technique: Develop the awareness of your breath to handle any challenge.
Mental Focus: Use the breath to transform anxiety into intensity and then passion.
Through conscious breathing, you can convert emotional intelligence into awareness and courage. By mastering the skills taught in Phases 1-3, you'll develop the ability to perform under extreme pressure, manage risk, and accept challenges.
"Success isn't just about inhaling opportunity—it's about exhaling resistance and breathing into your true potential."
That's HiLevel!
Here are some blog entries that go into more detail:
Books:Sources for Learning
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor.
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen by Mark Nepo
Foundation Training: Personal Training with Kahea Hart of the North Shore Surf Clinic