I Hate to Exercise
I am going to refer to her as Client C. She came in a few weeks ago, feeling very pleased with herself. Her sugar consumption has decreased dramatically, and she was eating better, and feeling better. Client C is sunshine and bubbles, the kind of person you want to take on vacation with you. She is fun and curious so when she blurted out, “I hate to exercise” I was a little surprised.
“Why do you hate to exercise?”
“I really don’t know.”
“Has this always been true?”
“I used to like it. Before kids, I went to classes with my friends and it was fun. Now I feel nauseous when I am on the treadmill, and even when I am walking up stairs or any kind of an incline.”
“When did that start happening?”
“Maybe after we moved to the lake. It was when the kids were younger and I was so busy running around, I didn’t have time to think about exercising.”
Client C lost a sibling to drowning. While she was growing up she was not consciously aware of this, and discovered, as a young adult, in a newspaper article, that her parents had lost a child when she was very young. Both she and her brother were forced to take swimming lessons, lots of them. I already knew that she didn’t care for swimming.
When I ask her to close her eyes and think of a pool, the image was over the top of her head, and she immediately began to feel nauseous. We worked on moving the image to a friendlier place. She was able to do that and the feeling went away.
Later, in a very deep hypnotic state, I guided her to go inside and fix the inner imbalance. She saw waves in front of her and felt nauseous for a moment, and then, as she was “fixing it”, the waves went from horizontal to vertical, and the sick feeling went away. She went into hypnosis convinced that her family just has inner ear problems.
She emailed me later in the week with a warning, “Sit down when you read this”.
” I got on my treadmill twice this week.”
I wasn’t surprised, but I was happy because it is a break through for her to take better care of herself. And it gives her confidence on how powerful her mind really is. She was convinced that she just stuck with a genetic inner ear problem because her brother has the same issue.
In her follow up appointment, she also let me know that she had tested walking up the open steps at the mall; she didn’t feel sick, but she also had not been back on the treadmill, or gone for a walk. We did similar work with the unconscious, so that ‘walking her dogs’ is just something she does, because it is just what she does.
And, by the way, the image of a pool was no longer over her head, nor did the thought of it make her feel sick.
I will keep you posted.
I love what I do,
Lisa