Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 4, Issue - 8, 1 February 2020 | Page 12

person to be treated successfully with tapping. Thirty years later she
appeared in the Ophrah Winfrey show testifying that she was still free
from her phobia.
When Dr. Callahan started to research this more systematically he created
a complete system combining tapping acu points with muscle testing to
treat emotional stress, phobias and other symptoms. He called the
treatment Thought Field Therapy (TFT).
One of Dr Callahans students, Gary Craig, who had an engineering back-
ground, simplified TFT to make it every man’s tool. The main simplification
was to tap all the acu-points used in TFT, instead of trying to find out which
ones might be involved in a specific issue. Gary Craig’s version is
called Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Since then, more
than 30 different versions of tapping have been named.
Another of Dr. Callahan’s students, Dr. Carl Johnson, was dedicated to help
his colleagues in the US Marine Corps when they came back from the
Vietnam War with stress symptoms. He focused specifically on the area of
post-traumatic stress. During Dr. Carl Johnson’s work in Kosovo he
found TFT to provide incredible results with survivors of the conflict.
When Gunilla Hamne and Carl Johnson met in Rwanda to teach and
treat orphans in 2007 he was using muscle testing, which is the
original method from kinesiology used by Dr. Roger Callahan, to detect
what combination of points were needed to be treated for different
problems. He was also using the eye movements called 9 Gamut
procedure (see Brain Balancing).
The muscle testing was hard to teach and the eye movements of the 9
Gamut procedure were considered weird by some and uncomfortable by
others.
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