Lightening your emotional load using EFT and the Personal Peace Procedure

By Claire Gibbs - EFT Level 2 Certified Practitioner accredited by EFT International. NLP Practitioner accredited by ABNLP

The Personal Peace Procedure is a way of working through your past history and removing any emotions that you may be unconsciously holding onto that aren’t serving you. You could say it’s a way of giving your past a spring clean.  Inner peace becomes possible as stored emotional issues are resolved.

It is a very simple and straightforward technique and can be done on your own.  If you’d like guidance with the process or feel that some of the emotions coming up are too much to deal with on your own then contact an accredited EFT therapist such as myself to help guide you through the process.

What to do

Make a list of all the memories that come to mind today from the past that still bother you in some way.

So, although you know that a particular memory is over in real time, when you think about it now it still makes you feel embarrassed, angry, sad, guilty or any other negative feeling.  Maybe it just gives you that kind of cringing feeling! Any memory that produces negative feelings right now as you think about it is worth working through.

Most people can make a list of 50 – 100 of these memories straight off but you might have more or less. Make sure each memory represents a specific event that happened and has ended now.

Work through each memory in turn by doing the following;

·      Take one of these memories every day

·      Imagine the memory is a mini-movie and give it a title. e.g. first day of school, the accident, the betrayal…

·      Imagine you can zoom in on the piece of the movie that has the most emotional charge.  This could last 1 second to 5 mins max. 

·      Give the movie a rating out of 10 for how strongly you feel about it now (not how strongly you might have felt back then) where 0 is no feeling at all and 10 is the strongest intensity you could imagine.

Now start tapping and saying the words described below - a diagram of the tapping points is shown at the bottom of this blog.

Tapping on karate chop point:

·      even though I have this X movie (where X is your movie title), I deeply and completely accept myself, REPEAT 3 TIMES

Tapping on each tapping point in turn:

·      this X movie

·      this X movie

·      this X movie….

·      Continue tapping around the points with this phrase until the intensity begins to come down. 

·      Different aspects of that particular memory may begin to emerge – thoughts, feelings, physical sensations that go with it – if so tap through each of those using phrases, in place of ‘X movie’ above, that describe that particular aspect/emotion – start with what seems to be the strongest. e.g. even though I have this sadness… (on karate chop point), this sadness (tapping round the points).

·      This is most effective if you stay really specific and only work on one aspect of one issue at a time. 

·      Continue until you can think about the original memory and the intensity has reduced – ideally to between 0 and 2.

·      Often an intensity of 2 is worth just leaving to process on its own – if you think of it again the next day, you may find there is no intensity left at all.  If there is some intensity the next day, return to it and continue tapping.

If you work through one of these memories every day, within a few weeks, it is likely that you will notice an increase in your emotional and physical wellbeing due to releasing the negative emotions that you may have been carrying around with you for years!

If you are working with an accredited EFT therapist, note down in a journal anything that you are struggling to shift as you do this process as that could be something useful to work on in your next session.

If you think you might like to work with a practitioner, just get in touch with me at clairelucygibbs@yahoo.co.uk and we can arrange a free no-obligation chat to see if what I offer is a good fit for you.