Re: [ET2] I need help here! Scuba diving fear.

S Powell wrote:
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> --- In emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com <mailto:emotrance2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> SFX <starfields@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > But, he is very scared (afraid) to do scuba diving with
> professional
> > > equipment, and (or) to dive much deeply.
> >
> > Take him to a place where "professional scuba equipment" is for
> sale/available to be touched.
> >
> > Take him through each piece of the equipment to find the reversal.
> >
> >
> > SFX
> >
> Hello,
> I agree with SFX. If I might add. I am a scuba diver. I was a very
> good swimmer as well. I learned some things about myse, lf that
> might help your friend. (hopefully) I found that clearing my mask was
> difficult (I felt a bit chlostrophobic doing that) you could start
> with the snorkel mask. I did not have EFT it was some 15 years ago
> when I trained. I am a nose breather so to breath strictly through my
> mouth was a challenge. (that might be something like stress) there
> was also the visibility subject/challenge in salt water. Then salt
> water stings the hell out of your eyes while your trying to learn to
> breathe a new way. The next big thing for me was "Trust" trusting
> the professional (mine was a man) so I had to work through that.I
> then went on to train as a "Divemaster" and that entails "buddy
> breathing" while exchanging all of your equipment and your being
> timesd. First in a swimming pool then in the ocean. My buddy was a
> man and he knew I had issues. These were "my" issues that I had to
> overcome. Perhaps your friend might have some of these things in
> common. Also being weighted down, squeezed into a very tight suit
> and being in this new world that has dangers, big scary fish it can
> be a great adventure but you are entering into another dimension and
> learning to survive.
>
> Good Luck! I sincerely hope this might bring some insight for you.
>
> Cheers!
> Sara

Sara, I think that's really good feedback and advice.

In general and on all topics, what can help is an imaginary and very precise "walk through" of the situation.

This is in essence as if the practitioner and the client were really going to the petshop to stroke a tarantula.

The mind walk, we call it.

It depends on how exact and correct you can get that as the practitioner, how strongly you can evoke it, as to how well it works.

The problem is when neither the practitioner nor the client have ever done any of the things before - then we're in "rolling heads" territory and the fears are very strange and disconnected from the actual activity.

Then you need to anchor the treatment somehow - using pictures or objects that you can touch to bring the reality of the activity, and the reversals relating to it, to the fore.

On TV shows they are so lucky! They get to take someone who is airplane phobic really onto a plane; height phobic folks get lifted in a cherry picker; and they'd hire all the equipment and fly this guy and the practitioner to a coral reef somewhere complete with sharks in the water "to get a good shot". But bye the bye, that actually makes the treatments SO much easier, it's nearly unfair.

LOL.

SFX

           
Received on Sun Jul 09 2006 - 08:13:22 BST