Personal Peace

The Personal Peace Procedure is a wonderful tool that I offer to all of my clients and students. The idea is to write down all of the problems you have, and systematically tap on them.

Gary Craig says that if you don’t have at least 100 items on your list, you probably haven’t been paying attention!

I like to encourage people to put their problems into broad categories and then break them down into smaller and smaller components. By helping people to organize their problems, it becomes much easier to get to the specifics of an issue.

For instance, a person might be dealing with lots of issues about work. If that person just wrote down: “I hate my job” and tried to tap on that, they probably wouldn’t get very far because it isn’t specific enough. What I encourage people to do is to follow one of the many useful metaphors for getting very specific.

For instance, if we were producing a movie of your life, “hating my job” might be a scene in that movie. We want to get to just ONE FRAME of that scene. You might want to list many “frames” from that scene, but each one would become a tappable issue.

So, the scene would be “I Hate My Job,” and some of the “frames” of the scene might be:

1. The boss told me that my report “stunk” at a staff meeting.
2. My secretary Sally spilled coffee all over my desk.
3. Three of my colleagues complained about me in one day.

In my upcoming Personal Peace Workshop, I will teach you how to organize your issues so that you can develop your own Personal Peace Journal.

We refer to the activity as “personal peace” because the commitment to tap every single day on major issues, would certainly lead to a feeling of peace!