Re: I need help here! Scuba diving fear.

--- In emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com, SFX <starfields@...> wrote:
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> S Powell wrote:
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> > --- In emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com <mailto:emotrance2%
40yahoogroups.com>,
> > SFX <starfields@> wrote:
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> > > > But, he is very scared (afraid) to do scuba diving with
> > professional
> > > > equipment, and (or) to dive much deeply.
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> > > Take him to a place where "professional scuba equipment" is for
> > sale/available to be touched.
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> > > Take him through each piece of the equipment to find the
reversal.
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> > > SFX
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> > 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 myself 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 breathe 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.
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> > Good Luck! I sincerely hope this might bring some insight for you.
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> > Cheers!
> > Sara
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> Sara, I think that's really good feedback and advice.
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> In general and on all topics, what can help is an imaginary and
very precise "walk through" of the situation.
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> This is in essence as if the practitioner and the client were
really going to the petshop to stroke a tarantula.
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> The mind walk, we call it.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> SFX
>
Hello again. (It's Sara). Where I live (US)when someone is
interested in Scuba training there is usually a local a dive shop
with some type of swimming pool available and the owner/instructors
are usually happy to let a person take equipment into the pool to try
out in a safe, shallow, pool of water. Perhaps at some point (after
the imaginary walk/through)that might be an option worth exploring.
I like the TV show scenario and that would be cool too. I went to
the Bahamas for my first tropical dive and I was very comfortable
with many dives (night, reef, wall dives) until it came to a wreck
dive. I just could not make myself do this wreck dive it was as if I
could feel the terror of all of the people that were on the boat
whenever it had happend (I could feel them and hear them) the water
was crystal clear and beautiful and quite shallow. Now that I am
recalling this I will tap. The spiritual terror (my words) was still
there and I did not want to participate.
Intersting huh? ok then. Thanks and...
Happy Trails!
Sara

           
Received on Sun Jul 09 2006 - 15:53:34 BST