Hypnotherapy Daily Bulletin

There are also activities requiring a certain amount of self-confidence to start with, and fear or uncertainty may present a serious handicap. Everybody finds among his friends a number of people unable to swim, for instance. Were swimming a skill acquired only after considerable training, this should be expected. But the facts are quite different. Most animals who fall into the water usually have no great difficulty in scrambling out and learning how to swim as a result. Boys and girls are hardly different in this respect. The art of swimming comes to them naturally, in due course of time, unless the fear of water is suggested to them. But some adults simply can't acquire the skill, no matter what they do. A deliberate effort to learn how to swim has, it seems, no advantage over an accidental fall into deep water. An acquaintance of mine once assured me that she can swim in four feet of water; but the moment she gets into a deeper place, she goes down like a stone. Ridiculous, is it not? Yet she cannot help it; like so many other people, she is wrongly conditioned to swimming. There is but one method of fighting against this fault, and it is to modify the psychological attitude and to inspire the subject with confidence, be it only for the few moments of retraining. Hypnosis can be of obvious assistance in such cases.Swimming is but one of many skills depending on self-confidence in the first minutes, hours or days of practice.