Manage Your Mind by Sara Campbell
Manage your mind by Sara Campbell

Manage Your Mind by Sara Campbell

Manage Your Mind is part two of the Yoga For Freediving series by Sara Campbell. Manage Your Mind is a series of lectures and guided meditations that are designed to help you quiet your inner demons. Both the demons that tell you to go too deep too fast, and the ones that tell you to come up early.

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Sara Campbell running freediving courses in
Dahab. Egypt. (Photo credit: Dan Burton)

Sara teaches us this with the help of Kundalini Yoga meditations, that are meant to balance your ‘positive mind’, your ‘negative mind’ and your ‘neutral mind’. Additionally one pranayama is designed to stress your body through breathhold, which both triggers your fears so you can confront them, and helps you develop the strength you need to overcome them. The awareness of your own mind and how it behaves during stress (long, deep dives, or just breath holds in general) is key if you want to improve in freediving.

Interested? Check the Yoga For Freediving website.

As with part one of the Yoga For Freediving series, Deep Relaxation, Manage Your Mind is for the freediver who is held back by the mental aspects of freediving. Even if you believe more physical training is what you need to overcome squeezes and blackout , the chances are that balancing your physical and technique training, with getting to grips with your thought patterns and how they sabotage you, is what is really going to set you straight for the longterm. Meditating in general will have positive effects on all aspects of your life, not just your freediving. Sara Campbell’s course is unique in that the lectures combined with the mediations covered in Manage Your Mind create a course that is especially geared towards freediving and very useful for those freedivers that feel the mind needs more direction during long dives and breath holds.

What you get:

  • About two hours of video lectures and meditations
  • 22 How-to videos covering the essential basics of Yoga For Freediving

Manage your mind by sara Campbell

Personal Experience

I meditate daily, and have done so for a long time. Hence, my routine was established before I did this review and so I have not followed Sara’s recommendations to the letter. However, the course did make me reflect on what mind dominates during my dives (positive, negative, neutral) and that awareness has helped me in my dives. It has not produced a measurable difference in length or depth (yet?), but my peace of mind during dives is greater, because I have a better handle on what exactly makes me stay down, or come back up to the surface.

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Jaap

Jaap is a geologist by trade and a freediver by passion. Jaap wrote the book Longer and Deeper in 2018. His book teaches how to train for freediving and spearfishing on land.

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