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History of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Roger Callahan and the Case of Mary with her intense phobia of water. Mary had an intense phobia of water, she was afraid the water was "going to get her". She had this fear as long as she could remember. Even bathing was an ordeal. Rain intensely bothered her, and she had nightmares several times every week about water getting her.
In 1980 Roger Callehan, PhD, a clinical psychologist with a about 30 years of experience as a therapist stepped out of bounds. During the first year and a half, he tried behavioral therapy, rational-emotive, systematic desensitization, distraction techniques, progressive relaxation, client-centered therapy, suggestion, placebo, clinical hypnosis and exposure. At this time each treatment consisted of two parts, the office part, where he would teach relaxation, induce hypnosis, and attempt to help Mary challenge her deep erroneous beliefs about the danger of water. The second part of the treatment was exposure at the pool behind his house.
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A colleague of his had told him about Applied Kinesiology, and this interested him because a AK muscle test showed that the subconscious of a woman who said she wanted to lose weight, actually did not want to lose weight. AK was developed by a chiropractor, and also includes working with the meridians. |
Mary always stated that she felt a intense feeling in the pit of her stomach just thinking about water. One day, Roger Callahan learned that the stomach meridian started under the eye, asked her to tap under her eye to see if this would help. She quickly said that this relieved the feeling in the pit of her stomach, and also the fear of water.
Roger Callahan was skeptical, and asked her to test at the pool. She ran to the pool, this scared Roger Callhan, she tured around just at the last moment to say "dont worry, I know I cannot swim." She tested by splashing water in her face, etc. She was free from this phobia. This sounds like an american commercial, but she attested to this 12 years later on TV. The cure has held for all these years.
All EFT users owe Roger Callahan a debt of gratitude for having the audacity to step out of bounds the way he did: promote a new and faster way of resolving emotional issues by tapping.
Gary Craig, the man who put EFT together.
Gary Craig was trained as a Stanford engineer, working as a realtor, at the time avid NLP master, not a psychologist or psychotherapist. Gary was one of the first to be trained in TFT advanced diagnostic procedure known as Voice Technology.
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Gary questioned several things that Roger Callahan held as true, paramount or very important regarding TFT. Gary Craig questioned, if order of tapping points matters, if it matters which points you tap per issue, and removed the need to muscle test. The result is the very robust Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). |
Always correct for psychological reversal, just tap on all points, do the Neurological Integration Sequence (Gary Craig calls this the Gamut procedure opr the 9-Gamut procedure) and tap all points again. Jump to the details on how to do EFT
Over time, Gary has proceded to mostly skip the Neurological Integration Sequence, and shorten to just tapping the points on face and chest.
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