Hello anyone reading this,

I'm currently practising the EFT Personal Peace Procedure, that is the tapping away of all bothersome memories, basically EFTing one's whole past or as I like to call it redeeming one's past. I was just wondering whether in NLP terms negative memories can be resourceful, that the pain associated to a particular event in the past can spur one on to do positive things. Take away the painful memory and you take away the positive result.

I think I remember reading in Steve Andreas's book 'Transforming Your Self' that this can indeed be the case and that a firm self-concept requires past failures.

And then there's Bandler himself. I've read about him talking about his painful childhood and all he says is he doesn't think about it. I took that as meaning he still has pain attached to his childhood so he refuses to dwell on it. Now surely there are NLP techniques he could use to neutralize his negative memories, having the same effect as the EFT I'm doing. So is he purposefully leaving his memories as they are because they play a role in his life of spurring him ever onwards? My view is that his awful past has had some role to play in him being a genius, after all how many serene geniuses have there been? Michaelangelo, Newton, Wittgenstein, Neitzsche, they were all tortured souls.

So whilst I'm very excited about the power of this PP procedure there is a nagging feeling that maybe in the future I'm going to regret neutralising my entire past. Though of course this may be my negativity trying to delude me.

Any ideas, advice, comment would of course be very interesting.

Thanks,

Alistair