Swimming is an excellent physical activity with a lot of health benefits such as
Yet, a lot of people would not dare get into the pool and you wonder why?
Most times, people do not swim because they are Aqua phobic. Aquaphobia is the fear of water. Aquaphobia is propagated by a host of thoughts and ideologies such as the thought of drowning, a bad past experience, associating with aqua phobic people, or even lack of trust in the swim teacher or swim coach’s abilities.
The thought of drowning involves the learner been conscious of drowning to an extent where they can hardly maintain the right kind of posture even if they manage to get in the water.
“There’s never a second opportunity to make a first impression”. For most learners, whether adults or children, their first impression of water bodies instilled fear in them. It may have been a story of a flood, a careless swim teacher or even a neighbor who drowned during a fishing expenditure. Whatever the information they had first received, had spoilt their opinion on swimming.
Relationships influence our ideologies and habits. Having a group of aqua phobic people around a learner will consistently dampen the enthusiasm of the learner, as they will naturally keep trying to transfer their fear on the learner.
Physical Signs of Aquaphobia
Ways to Control Aquaphobia
Fear is the brain’s response to a perceived harmful situation. This means that changing how the brain perceives that situation can eliminate the fear.
Some Ways to Eliminate Aqua phobia Include
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