Conquer Your Fear of Water: An Innovative Self-Discovery Course in Swimming

If you've taken lessons before and not reached your goals, chances are you didn't feel safe. It was not your fault. Feeling safe--knowing how to remain at ease and prevent panic by relying on yourself for your safety rather than the bottom or the side--is your next step. Once you master your safety, you can learn any skill: you're no longer focused on survival. 



No matter where you are with your swimming today, it's exactly the right place to begin. By starting there and taking all of the steps in this book, you will learn to swim. This foolproof system was developed in 1983 by Melon Dash in Berkeley, California. Her school is now Miracle Swimming for Adults, Inc., a non-profit in Sarasota, Florida. Her system is now taught in 15 cities around the world and has set a new standard for teaching swimming. 
 


The information you need to feel safe in water is presented clearly in this book: 

1. Learning to swim equals comfort and confidence in deep water.

2. Becoming reliable for your safety in water comes before learning strokes. 

3. Learning to swim and learning strokes are two different processes. This book is about learning to swim.

4. Overcoming fear is a simple, fascinating personal process. 

5. Overcoming fear and learning to swim is fun.

6. If you start at the beginning and skip no steps, you cannot fail to overcome fear and l earn to swim. 
 


Readers wrote:" I really like that you stress having fun first and being comfortable. The book is full of fantastic advice. It's working for me. I now know I will not pass on my fear to my children. You will make a difference in millions of lives." --D.K. 
 
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"This book is very, very impressive and leaves no doubt in my mind why your system works. The book does a tremendous job of sharing your method. The concepts, the language, and the detailed steps... are easy to understand. You anticipate and explain in great detail a lot of the things that happen in the water that scare novices. Your book answered a lot of questions I have had, and explained a lot of what I have experienced in the water." --S.N.