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When I first read about Gary Craig's Personal Peace Procedure, I was really excited about trying it. I've found in my use of it since, and others using it, that as it stands, it seems to help some people greatly, but others get frustrated because the issues resulting from the events that they have tapped on seem to return.
I've been puzzling about this for sometime, and recently had a thought that might explain why I went away from using it, and how it could possibly be modified to help more people. My feeling is that it would be good to extend the PPP to including brainstorming all the possible beliefs and symptoms that you have taken on as a result of the event that you are working on, and tap on them, and any other events that pop into your mind as a result of them. I feel that simply tapping on the event in isolation, even if using the movie technique which I'm a huge fan of, doesn't necessarily clear all the points of view and beliefs and symptoms that originated as a result of our perception of the event. For some reason, some events seem to completely clear just by tapping on the event itself, but for others, it is necessary to do an inventory of the writing on the wall that was created (or reinforced) by our perception of the event.
So I'm now doing the following:
1. Pick the event that I'm going to work with.
2. Make a list of all the beliefs that the event could have generated in me (in particular anything that could have formed part of my identity). These would be based on my particular perception, not necessarily reality (ie I could have intepreted meaning in others' action which they didn't mean)
3. Make a list of all outstanding symptoms (physical, mental etc) that could possibly be linked to the event and the beliefs.
4. Ask myself "What does this remind me of from earlier in my life?" and list down any events that come to mind, with associated beliefs and symptoms as above.
5. Tap the event using the movie technique, and then tap for everything in the three lists, both separately and all jumbled up together, to tap out any possible connections.
Using a fictitious event as an example:
1. Event = Mum telling me not to cry when I was upset when my dog died
2. Beliefs:
* how I feel doesn't matter
* crying is bad
* I shouldn't express my feelings
* etc
3. Outstanding symptoms:
* when I get upset I get a headache
* I can't express how I'm feeling when I'm upset
* I never cry, even when something really sad happens
* etc
4. That time when I was really small and X happened and Mum got angry with me (+ associated beliefs and symptoms from that)
5. Tapping - first the movie technique for each event, then mixing the messages and symptoms and event up. For example:
Even though Mum told me not to cry when my dog died, and now I believe that how I feel doesn't matter and I can't express how I'm feeling when I'm upset, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. etc
While this takes longer to do, I find that for core events that have resulted in me taking on certain beliefs, particulary about my identity, are much more thoroughly cleared using this approach than they are by using the PPP as I learnt it.
If this idea appeals to you, give it a go! I'd love to have some feedback from anyone who tries it, if you feel inspired to let me know how it goes. You can reach me at selfheal4me@gmail.com. Thank you!