EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) was developed by Gary Craig, Personal Performance Coach, based on the discoveries of Dr. Roger Callahan, a psychologist in Southern California. The science behind EFT was not developed like many other discoveries. That is, it was not created in a laboratory and then tested in the real world. Instead, a stunning turn of events in the real world pointed the way first. Here's the story as told by Gary Craig:

"In 1980, Dr. Callahan was working with a patient, Mary, for an intense water phobia. She suffered from frequent headaches and terrifying nightmares, both of which were related to her fear of water. To seek help, she had been going from therapist to therapist for years … with no material improvement. Dr. Callahan tried to help her by conventional means for a year and a half. He didn't make much headway either. Then one day he stepped outside the normal "boundaries" of psychotherapy. Out of curiosity, he had been studying the body's energy system and decided to tap with his fingertips under her eyes (an end point of the stomach meridian). This was prompted by her complaint of some stomach discomfort. To his astonishment, she announced immediately that her phobia was gone and she raced down to a nearby swimming pool and began throwing water in her face. No fear. No headaches. It all went away…. including the nightmares. And it has never returned. She is totally free of her water phobia. Results like that are rare in the field of psychotherapy… but commonplace with EFT."

With this in mind, here's the essence behind EFT… "The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system."

Compare the energy flow in your body to that of a TV set. As long as the electricity flows through your TV normally, the sound and picture are both clear. But what would happen if you took off the back of the TV set and poked a screwdriver amongst all that electronic spaghetti? You would, quite obviously, disrupt or reroute the flow of electricity and an electric "zzzzzt" would occur inside. The picture and sound would become erratic and the TV would exhibit it's version of a "negative emotion".

In the same manner, when our energy systems become imbalanced, we have an electrical "zzzzzt" effect going on inside. Straighten out this "zzzzzt" and the negative emotion goes away. It's that simple. I am well aware of how strange this may sound and difficult it can be to believe… at least at first. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't seen so many marvelous changes after applying these techniques to myself and others.

The missing piece … It is widely assumed, for example, that a past traumatic memory is the direct cause of emotional upset in someone. It is not. There is an intermediate step between the memory and the emotional upset. That step is "a disruption in the body's energy system". It is that disruption, that "zzzzzt" that is the direct cause of emotional upset. And, let me add, emotional upset is most often the root cause of physical ailments.

EFT, by balancing the body's energy system, collapses the emotional upset and heals the body.

The applications for this technique are endless. It is now being used by over 100,000 practitioners worldwide with well over 1 million successful cases. Some of the most common issues that have been successfully resolved using EFT:

Pain Fears/phobias Headaches Claustrophobia Panic/Anxiety Agoraphobia Asthma Fear of Flying Trauma Eating disorders PTSD Anorexia/Bulimia Abuse

Addictions Depression Weight loss Dyslexia OCD Carpal Tunnel Blood Pressure Anger Children ADD-ADHD Diabetes Allergies Neuropathy

We "try it on everything". Above is just a short list of the issues it has been used successfully on. Click on the links below to learn how to apply EFT and see the tapping points.


This article was compiled from the EFT Manual and Gary Craig's website emofree.com.