learn to swim

Change is a beautiful thing. It is harsh in its acceptance, but glorious in its manifestation. It can be likened to the first flower, emerging from what was not, into what was a macro-complicate system of growth, reproduction and beauty.

In learning to swim, the only obstacle that people face is fear of the water. If it is that they trusted themselves or even the words of their instructors 100 percent, then a non-swimmer could be converted into a swimmer instantly.

Swimming is a matter of mere mechanics. It amounts to an understanding of the tactile properties of water and an adaptation to best achieving buoyancy and speed in said element.

Most small children when being brought in tears to the pool by their mother or father for the first time, will sit fearful on the edge. When brought into the water most children fear placing their head beneath its surface. This is merely the manifestation of the only obstacle that prevents a child from learning how to swim at rapid pace. Fear.

Placing your head beneath water for the first time in your existence is akin to surrendering to the process. One can not benefit from change if one remains detached from it. One can not face fear unless facing the manifestation of that fear.

Bobbing exercises are typically recommended for those who do not face their fear immediately. This means that while others ably swim by, as testament to the possibility that they too could place their faces in the water, the child is to bob in and out of the water while blowing bubbles under the water and inhaling outside it. As the the mind state of the child has still not been changed from a position of fear he still places only his mouth in the water in attempt, or he doesnt attempt it at all.

At this point one and one attention is needed and the instructor and child go for a swim together. The instructor might say: "Hey, which superhero do you wanna be!" And if the instructor ever got a "Superman!!" they would have been up up and away with the ulterior intent to dunk the child forcefully into the pool on their imminent return to earth. In some cases the child is caught completely off guard and actually enjoys the moment before realizing he was supposed to have feared it, and in some cases the process therefore works. Some children though in over-thought are tense from the moment they are taken from the side of the pool into the water.

They are not paying adults you might say, however the same trait remains in adults. Adults are but children grown old. Experience amounts to nothing if no learning transaction is executed between the knowledge within that experience and the person 'experiencing' it.

There are countless excuses for fear. None of them, are acceptable.

Thought is the only thing that connects us to fear. Thought is the only thing that connects us to our past. Thought is the only thing that if misused is our swift pending demise. Thought is the only thing that if correctly harnessed is our swift pending acquisition of that which we want.

And when your head is beneath the water, open your eyes for maybe the first time and see you are a swimmer.