“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”……………..Carl Jung
The EFT Personal Peace Procedure is a key component to freeing yourself from the pain of unresolved experiences from the past. It is the healing highlight of EFT.
“Just as thoughts are the language of the brain, feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel create a state of being.”………………. Joe Dispenza
Taking time to write Your Personal Peace List begins the process of cleaning out a lifetime of accumulated emotional debris. As you use the Energy tapping of EFT on each event, you will notice a reduction and eventually elimination of negative tendencies and behaviors that have ruled your life.
Clearing our Negative Emotional Forest
We could say that each negative tree represents a specific event. This approach works well for those who can remember ‘specific events.’
Your completed list, may well be over 100 or 150 listings, they are like trees which must be removed from the healthy forest of our being so they don’t take away energy from the healthy trees by corrupting the healthy trees with negative thought-forms. These events may have shapes of anger, guilt, shame, rejection, jealousy, suspicion and chronic fears, to name a few and may resemble a jungle. We use the analogy of cutting the trees down or removing them from the healthy forest, very much like weeding our gardens of weeds which choke the growth of our beautiful flowers or vegetables.
The Tabletop
This analogy, ‘the table top’ is good for those who are general in their memory of major events in their life. For instance: “I was abandoned as a child”, “I was beaten as a child”, “My mother didn’t love me”, “I have difficulty making friends, I don’t like men.”, “I am always anxious”. These statements or affirmations are broad or global. Many people have experienced events that are too painful to remember the specifics. Also many of us have been raised in environments where we were told, “don’t talk, don’t cry, be quiet!” As a result, we have formed habits that suppress our true feelings and we have developed behavior patterns that reflect these fears and unrest.
As a result of being suppressed, or not wanting to remember these painful experiences, the specifics of trauma and anxiety have been filed away in global or general files where the symptom becomes the label for the specific events such as, “feelings of not being loved”. We could also say they have been filed away in ‘emotional carrier waves’.
Thought Files
Let’s refer to the name of the thought file, “My mother didn’t love me. She was mean to me.”, as the top of a table. The legs of the table will then represent the specific events that support it. You may have any number of legs holding up the global truth or general truth, “My mother didn’t love me. I don’t feel loved”.
Collapsing the Tabletop
When we address the ‘specifics’ of the events and collapse each leg which may represent ‘part of the true cause’ or the ‘core issues’, then the table will collapse. We are addressing the specific events, not the symptoms. An example of legs holding the table up, might be, “When I was five, I remember I was having a good time playing on the swing, when my mom came behind me and started to yell and scream at me. She grabbed my right ear and dragged me into the house and threw me onto the bed. I remember how painful my ear was and that it ached for days and just because I forgot to make my bed!”
We would list these examples as legs:
When I was five, I remember I was having a good time playing on the swing,
when my mom came behind me and started to yell and screamed at me.
She grabbed my right ear…
It was so painful…
My right ear ached for days…
She dragged me into the house…
She threw me onto the bed…
I didn’t make my bed…that made her mad…
And……there may be emotions that begin to surface as you are writing your list such as:
I hated her for hurting me…
Mom scares me…
I am afraid of Mom…
I am angry at Mom…
I am angry at myself for being afraid of her…