Wii and EFT: Exercise Made Easy

by Gillian Wightman
www.eastneuktherapies.co.uk

Much has been written recently about the benefits of Nintendo Wii to enhance physical fitness. I have found combining EFT with the Wii personal training programmes has brought me not only physical but emotional benefits that far surpassed my expectations.

Firstly, I found exercising regularly a challenge, I would start with good intentions and then stop. So I decided I needed to set myself a goal.

How would exercise benefit me? My specific goals were to become fit enough to engage in mountain climbing and to keep up with my boys on our winter ski holidays. Both of these activities I have learnt to become proficient in by using EFT to address my specific fears, limiting beliefs, etc. My challenges, however were that physical movement would bring up many buried emotions and all of that had to be cleared to make exercise a safe experience for me. Many physical and emotional traumas are buried somatically, and clearing a belief about it being safe to move at all, with a specific core memory and its consequences on the rest of my life was necessary.

When using the Wii training programmes I noticed that when exercises involved virtual volleyball, tennis, or basketball practice, I would freeze and become uncoordinated. I was in fact being taken right back to all the miserable hours of physical education. In fact I spent all my school years trying my hardest to get out of doing gym class rather than enjoying the experience at all.

I allowed myself to be aware of the physical sensation and related memories and tapped on these until I was able to hit the shots.

I also observed that hearing my Wii personal trainer saying from time to time “Perfect job, well done” was probably about the only time I had ever heard those words related to anything physical. Tapping on the real sadness this brought up for me and to clear the energy of all the negative things that were said to me was very beneficial.

“Try harder, you’re not trying hard enough, you’re not doing that properly, we don’t want you on our team, you missed again, you’re so rubbish” So much writing on my walls!

I was delighted to observe in real terms the benefits of all of this tapping, clearing the limiting beliefs and working with the specific memories. I now have a positive voice encouraging me now when I am engaged in sports, which is a revelation to me, I have rewritten on my walls with the words of my Wii personal trainer.

However my reason for writing today is my excitement about what happened to me this week. I had not truly anticipated that the result of all this tapping would have effects on performance areas—other areas entirely—that I had not specifically addressed.

I rarely swim, as I didn’t enjoy it, tiring after a few laps and never quite managing to coordinate movements. I didn’t like it enough to try to improve. When I was invited to a spa this week I decided to stick to the sauna and Jacuzzi but was tempted by the beautiful pool, so thought I would give it a go. Can you imagine my delight when I found myself effortlessly and easily swimming length after length for nearly an hour?

Next stop a triathlon