The January 2012 Issue of Bottom Line Health reminds us of the importance of minimizing stress. They remind us of the negative effects stress and cortisol (the stress hormone) have on our hearts. And, they state that on-going, low-level stress, from work, relationships, finances and even chronic health problems can increase inflammation in our arteries, increasing our risk of heart disease.

The article tells us of new research in a study of nearly 1000 men, showed that those who experienced three or more major stressful life events in a single year, had a 50% higher risk of dying in a 30-year period.

All of the following physical and health related concerns are negatively effected by stress:

• Increased blood sugar
• Physical pain
• Impaired memory
• Weight gain
• Sleep difficulties
• Anxiety

Tapping is a simple and effective way to melt away stress on a daily basis. It even helps to normalize the cortisol levels in our body. You don’t need to let the effects of our fast-paced, stressful lives, chip away at your good health and well-being.

We provide a free Daily Stress Busting Guide on our web site, www.RogerCallahan.com. The reports we receive on a daily basis show it is effective and helpful to many.

Let me share what some of those who have already tried this, have experienced:

I followed the guide and when I finished doing the tapping I felt very calm and felt great.

I found my stress levels lowered and I began to think about other things

I felt more peaceful around my thoughts and my sleep improved.

Instant relief and better energy flow.

For the first time in months this feeling in the stomach area, like someone is gripping my stomach and squeezing was gone. I have just felt stuck and doomed. Since the TFT I feel like I have a chance at my dreams still.

I work for the US military in Afghanistan and my job can be difficult I work in the mountains and at time injuries occur, but we just suck it up... and move on.
I was on my day off and was looking at some web sites when I came across some story of a person who had used TFT and gave details etc...I thought about this and I decided to try it for myself in the cover of my room..I then went to bed and fell into a deep sleep..in the morning I had to do a 5 mile run..so off I went a little time into my run I realized I had no pain in my knee...when I got back to my room I thought about it and decided and try it on my energy level...to my amazement I felt incredible..and since that very first time I used TFT on my knee I have never had any more pain also I have got into the habit of using it every day and I am amazed by the constant results I have decided to learn all I c an and I hope to be a Trainer of this amazing system.

I would tell everyone to try it for themselves asap it is incredible.

I was on my way to work one morning following my divorce. I had an anxiety attack and I almost had to pull off the road. I felt like I couldn't go to work in this state and be able to function. I remembered being shown this technique at work. Even though I could not remember the exact pattern of the tapping in desperation to resolve this crisis, I began the process and within 5 minutes I was able to go on to work and work a full and complete day.

Wonderful results. Addictions are no longer taking a hold and I have noticed a difference in people’s attitude and general outlook.

Have been using tft for three weeks and i feel great. mind is clear and severe pain from arthritis in knees has almost completely gone.

This next one clearly shows how important it is to treat past traumas and current traumas as they develop in our lives.

I witnessed a very horrible event 30 years ago. Since then I have experience other events that compounded the problem. I was treated as a volunteer during a teleclass. The treatment has s been very successful. I use the PR for reversal when I get a bad feeling. This is the best I've felt since the incidents over the past 30 yrs. Thank you for your help.

These people were all helped, and for a variety of problems, with just our free stress guide. It helped, pain, addiction, stress, sleep, nausea, energy levels and more.

Get your Tapping away Stress Guide at www.RogerCallahan.com and begin 2012 with the tools to stress less.

Joanne Callahan, MBA
President, Callahan Techniques, Ltd.

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Nearly 80 people volunteered and were treated in our tapping tele-classes...

When I tabulated the demonstration results from our new TFT tele-class series I was amazed. The number of people and variety of problems we worked with and helped, in a brief period of time following each class, was truly a tribute to the healing power of TFT.

We offered a series of five tele-classes, beginning last January and ending in November. Over 1,000 people attended the classes. Each class had a 55-60 minute presentation on TFT and how to use it on yourself at the algorithm level. Then, we ended each call with live demonstrations with TFT Voice Technology (VT) from Dr. Callahan. This allowed participants to experience our most successful level of TFT, Voice Technology. The live demonstrations lasted 20-45 minutes with the average time per class about 30 minutes.

We had 79 volunteers for these demonstrations. Based on 300 minutes of total demonstration time and 79 volunteers, the average treatment time was a mere 3,797 minutes. This is just truly astounding.

During the classes, we worked on many types of problems. We eliminated fears for things like driving, freeways, flying, bridges, tunnels, public speaking and even death. We helped many get rid of cravings or addictive behaviors. Some eliminated a desire for alcohol, others cigarettes and food, and we helped still others stop biting their nails, pulling hair or picking.

Others learned how to easily and quickly control their anger or rage and improve their relationships.

Many suffered the effects from past trauma and we were able to successfully stop the upset from these past events including accidents, abuse, loss of loved ones, or divorce and even for those who were a victim of a crime.

We had many wanting to learn tools to eliminate self-sabotage, negative thinking and obsessive worry. They learned these tools during the presentation portion of the class and then many experienced relief from individual tapping sequences as volunteers.

Not only did we work with emotional and anxiety issues, we helped many physical problems as well. Everything from physical pain to digestive issues and even the loss of sense of smell responded to their tapping sequences.

It was heartwarming to hear the relief and change in those suffering from depression and even severe post-partum depression.

There were too many to list here but I wanted to convey the broad sense of what our participants accomplished in these classes.

Every volunteer responded to their sequences. Some had their problems completely eliminated, others received the tools to continue to work on them and improve their quality of life. There were only a few individuals that had a limited response in the brief time on the call. But even they had the chance to experience TFT VT and see some immediate relief with hope for them to continue to improve.

They all received the recording of each class and an extensive workbook for future use. They now have these tools and examples to continue improving their life, reducing fears, stress and trauma.

These popular tele-classes provided a wonderful, affordable way for all to have access to learning how to use TFT algorithms for themselves and get individual TFT VT tapping sequences directly from Dr. Callahan. There are probably not many other healing modalities that can help such a wide variety of problems in such a brief time, under 4 minutes, and be safe, non-invasive and drug-free. Come try it for yourself.

We will be continuing these popular classes next year. We're pleased to offer help those wanting to overcome past trauma or losses in their lives... with special guest Dr. Robert Bray. The classes are on January 13th and 20th. Click here for more details.

They are a wonderful opportunity to experience the healing power of TFT for yourself.

Joanne Callahan

Constant stress at work is bad for heart

Aliki Nassoufis, dpa, Hamburg, Germany
The Denver Post

Work is piling up on the desk and in a few hours the presentation must be finished. To make matters worse, the telephone keeps ringing. Job-related stress is common. If it goes on for years, though, it can have serious physical consequences -- particularly for the heart.

According to the German Heart Foundation, each year nearly 300,000 people in Germany suffer a a heart attack, often due to stress. So reducing stress at the workplace can be an important means of preventing serious heart disease.

"Stress causes, among other things, the release of more stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol into the bloodstream," explained Ulrich Hildebrandt, head physician in the Cardiology Department at St Irmingard Clinic.

This reaction, he said, was sometimes vital to our forebears: "When in danger, the body went into maximum gear and into a state of emergency to survive critical situations, for example by fleeing from a large animal."

Stress also ramps up the autonomic nervous system, which "regulates how often the heart beats and how many times a minute it contracts, among other things," Hildebrandt said. These stress reactions, if persistent or regular, can cause damage to the body.

"Someone suffering from chronic stress is always steamed up, so to speak," remarked Karl-Heinz Ladwig, a member of the German Heart Foundation's scientific advisory board. "This means, for example, that the heart rate is constantly elevated and the heart beats more frequently than in its normal state."

More strain is put on the heart, he said, resulting in more damage. The regular release of stress hormones into the bloodstream can also lead to high blood pressure and irritable bowel syndrome.

"Another aspect is that the psyche can affect the body's immune system," Ladwig pointed out. In other words, a person under constant stress gets infections more often and tends to heal from wounds more slowly.

"Work-related stress is a combination of objective and subjective parameters," he said. Though studies have shown that objective stress factors such as time pressure, constant noise, lots of overtime and a heavy workload considerably increase the risk of heart disease, Ladwig said, "how you react to these objective factors and whether you can try to change them also plays a role."

Still, the causes of stress are more objective in nature than mental, he noted. But they need not lead to a heart attack or other forms of heart disease.

"You can try to reduce the stress somewhat," advised Jochen Jordan, a psychocardiologist and member of the German Cardiac Society.

People who are always setting themselves higher goals and putting themselves under pressure are heightening stress, he remarked. "Instead," he said, "you should ask yourself, 'Is this work style worth it? Is this the way I want to live?'"

Those who put less stress on themselves are taking care of their cardiovascular system.

Exercise is also a very important way to ease stress since "it helps flush stress hormones like adrenaline out of the body," noted Jordan, who recommended about three hours of aerobic exercise a week.

"It can be cycling, jogging or Nordic walking," he said, and gave the following example: When a sales representative arrives at his destination in a nervous state after a drive of several hours, he should first go for a jog instead of meeting the customer for a hearty meal.

Purposeful relaxation training can help, too. "The aim is to lower the pulse and blood pressure," Jordan said. Simply plopping down on the sofa and watching TV may seem like relaxation but is often of little help.

"Techniques that stimulate the parasympathic nervous system -- that bring about calm and rest, that is -- are usually better," he said. "For example, yoga, tai chi or listening to relaxing music."

Some occupations are intrinsically more likely than others to be stressful. Studies have shown prolonged night and shift work to be harmful, noted Jordan. In the long run, he said, such work seriously jeopardizes a person's circadian rhythm. "Jobs requiring a lot of driving also pose the risk of heart diseases," he added, citing bus, taxi and lorry drivers. Jordan said that many people were very tense for a long time while driving and were then unable to really relax.

If you are suffering from stress, click here to try our stress busting program, and see how your life improves once you learn to overcome stress.

TFT is very effective at helping people to quit smoking, along with many other addictions. If you want to quit smoking, we hope that Michael's story will inspire you

In the spring of 08, for the third time, I contacted a local hypnotherapist for help with smoking. This woman said she uses EFT. We did a few sessions over the phone. I was and am a skeptic by nature. I kind of laughed it off and stopped doing the sessions.

Sometime after, I was in the local book store and saw Roger's book Tapping the Healer Within. I bought it went home and read it cover to cover in one sitting.

I did the algorithm for addiction. I felt happy and had an unexplainable smile after doing it and my desire for a cigarette was reduced. I guess the skeptic in me took over because I didn't do it again and continued to smoke.

Now I am not sure why, but in July of 08 I did the algorithm on three different occassions, all with a couple days of each other.

It wasn't until the third week of September that I realized, during the month of August, I only smoked on the weekends... and not all of them. I didn't think about or really crave a cigarette, and from the beginning of September till the third week I hadn't smoked at all.

I never made a decision that that was it, it just seemed to happen. I should mention I am one who doesn't seem to be able to rate myself on the sud scale, but I got results !

The last day of September I bummed a cigarette from my brother, I didn't even smoke half of it, I got so sick, sweats, hot, vomiting, my whole body felt ill. All I could do was lay on the couch the rest of the day. I have now been smoke free for 8 months. I have no desire what so ever to smoke and I have this uncanny feeling inside that I know I will never smoke again. For this Roger and Joanne I thank you both.

The lung association says the 6th month is the hardest, most people fall off the wagon in the 6th month. When I use to go drinking, I would smoke a lot more than usual. So for my 6-month test I went to a smokey bar and drank while sitting between two smokers, it didn't bother me other than I hate the smell of cigarettes now (LOL) I never wanted a cigarette at all.

I am 47 years old and have smoked for 32 years. I have over the years tried many things and many times to quit. I tried the patch, gum, Dr. prescribed pills, group hypnosis, 1-on-1 hypnosis as well as other unconventional methods. All with little or not success.

At the time I quit using TFT, I was smoking 2 to 2 1/2 packs a day. Now 8 months being smoke free, I have no desire to smoke at all. Since I have used the TFT algorithm to cut down on my coffee/caffeine intake, I was drinking 10 to 15 cups a day... no lie ! ! ! I now I have 2 - 4 cups a day.

Again, thank you Roger and Joanne.

Sincerely ,
Michael J Bernard
(New Hampshire)

If you are ready to quit smoking, please click here.

My doctor called my attention to the book "Tapping the Healer Within." by Dr. Roger Callahan. I went to buy it and starting reading. When I finished I felt that this is something that could help my problems. I called the TFT office and inquired more about Dr. Callahan. I was told that Dr. and Mrs. Callahan were in London. The secretary e-mailed Mrs. Callahan about my problems. I was touched by Mrs. Callahan's response from London telling me to call her on her return from Europe. I had the privilege to talk to her and she said she would try to find someone nearby that could assist me.

I called her back to see if she found someone and she highly recommended Mrs. Christina Mayhew Dx, an advance coach of TFT. I connected with Christina and without delay she sent me the Thought Field Therapy Client Intake Sheet.

On June 15 she went through the lists to check my sensitivities to all the items going in and on my body, food, laundry detergent and other things. I followed her instructions religiously. She guided me on the treatment for toxin the next day. Then to my surprise, after two days I was able to walk slowly to receive Holy Communion without any help, which I could not do before. So I am very grateful to TFT.

Every two weeks, I have my blood test for Coumadin. I would bleed after the removal of the needle for several minutes. This time there was no prolonged bleeding and they were surprised. My blood pressure and pulse rate are also normal now.

My coach has more work to do with me checking the toxin. She is very good and I am very grateful for the present improvements. For me personally, I strongly feel that TFT is the answer to my challenges in my present condition. As I said we still have more to do but I am very optimistic that TFT will restore my quality of life in the near future.

So I want to thank Dr. & Mrs. Callahan for providing us a wonderful and effective harmless tool for a better life. May God bless them and my coach, Christina Mayhew for this wonderful God given gifts.

With grateful love and prayers,
Sr. Mercy, O.C.D.

First, we wish to offer our congratulations to Roger and Joanne for their ACEP Award!

In May 2010 we attended the Optimal Health course in London, England. We were very curious about Voice Technology and we were thrilled to learn that technique from Roger and Joanne! It was really a wonderful course.

At Saturday (our second course day) everybody had to practice VT over the phone in front of the group under supervision from Roger and Joanne. We had to choose a volunteer who we could call for a VT treatment. We asked our Mum in the Netherlands if we could practice on her and that was all right with her.

Our Mum had a fear of water since she was a little child (she’s now 63 years old). She only could handle water up to her knees. If the water came above her knees she would have a panic attack with hyperventilation. Walking with only her feet in the sea was okay, but when a wave came, she got frozen, her eyes got very big and she got very scared. Sitting in a boat was never an option for her, and neither was swimming. Even when she imagined that she could fall in the water, she would get a very fast heartbeat, she felt dizzy, and would start to breath very fast, and nearly get a panic attack.

We really wanted to help her with this fear, but we thought that this case was to complex and to difficult for a first VT practice as our Mum had this fear for nearly 60 years! So we asked Roger and Joanne if this case was too difficult to start with, but they say: “do not say something is too difficult, just try it! And, remember Roger’s first TFT case was also with a fear for water (Mary’s case)”.

So we called our mother in the Netherlands for a VT session and asked her to work on her fear for water. She said ”Oh if I could lose that fear…, is that really possible?”

So we started our VT session with her thinking about the water is coming above her knees. Her SUD was a 10+. We analyzed her voice and corrected her PR, after that we got a sequence with 5 treatment points. After having her do the whole holon, we asked her again to concentrate on the water coming above her knees and asked her SUD. She said “I don’t feel anything”, we thought that she was not focusing good enough so we said “Mum, please concentrate on the water” Again she said “I do, but I don’t feel anything”. So we said: “Mum, imagine the water is coming up to your head and above your head …” She said: “I imagine that, but I don’t feel anything”.

We were very confused and thought she may not be a good volunteer. Joanne stood up and said to us “Just believe her! Your mother doesn’t have an apex problem, but you do!” So we thanked our mum for being our volunteer and finished our VT session. In the evening we called her again, to check her SUD and it was still a zero. The next morning we called her again, because we couldn’t believe it ourselves! We surely had an apex problem ourselves, how could this 60 year old fear be gone in just one holon? The whole week after the VT treatment we called our mum and every time we spoke to her we expected her to say “well, the fear has come back”, but she didn’t! She too was very excited!

After one week she was on vacation with my our dad and afterwards our mum called us, she said “I have something to tell you” we thought ‘oh no the fear has come back?’ But it didn’t, she told us that her fear for heights has gone too after her VT treatment for water! For the first time in her life she was sitting in a gondola, she did it like it was very normal to her, but the surprised face of our dad reminded her that it wasn’t normal before. After ten days our apex problem finally disappeared and we realize that this technique is really amazing! We use it on a daily basis for ourselves and we practice it a lot on clients. Now we really have the feeling that we are helping people and ourselves.

We recommend it to everyone who really wants to make a difference in the world and in their own life.

If you are wanting to overcome your fears, the Fear Of Flying Tapping guide (which helped Who0pi overcome her fear of flying), or the Stress Busters Tapping guide can be downloaded here.

I am thrilled and honored to have learned about Thought Field Therapy. The TFT teleclass is one of the best training experiences and investments I have ever made.

The teleclass provided fantastic insight and guidance into the TFT algorithms and usage. I highly recommend everyone learn TFT and put it too good use. TFT can do wonders for you. Now, perhaps you are wondering why I am so excited about Thought Field Therapy. I hope that after reading about my situation and the help TFT has given me, you too will give it a try.

In January 2005 I went sledding down my street. Part way down the steep hill the snow become solid ice. I was unable to steer or stop and slid head first into the bumper of a parked mini-van. I suffered such a bad head injury that I barely made it to the hospital alive. If it took 20 minutes longer, it would have been too late. I was put into a medical coma for 10 days and have a two month period that I do not remember anything from.

With great medical care, support from my family, and post-hospital rehabilitation I finally returned to full time work after 8 months. I am nearly fully recovered other than I had lost 100% of my sense of smell. Medical professionals told me that the loss of smell is not an unusual occurrence after the type of brain injury I had. I was informed that I would never recover my sense of smell.

For five years, it was correct. I did not smell anything. However, in January 2010 I took the TFT teleclass and was given a customized Thought Field Therapy algorithm, from Dr. Roger Callahan, to regain my sense of smell. It is amazing the capability Roger has developed with TFT and Voice Technology. I have used the algorithm (((a, mf, tf, e, g50, eb) 9g) sq) at least 15 times a day for 40 consecutive days (20+ times for 35 of those 40 days).

After the 30th day, I was startled and pleasantly surprised to notice the air all of a sudden seemed different as walked down the indoor hallway near the building cafeteria. It took me a bit to realize I was actually smelling something again. After 5 years, I had sort of forgotten what that was like. In the days since then I have had other occasional instances of smelling things. My sense of smell is not yet 100% back, but I am thrilled to have what I was told could never happen actually occur. TFT has made this possible.

Roger originally explained I would need to follow this 15+ times a day regimen for many weeks. It only takes a minute to execute the algorithm and it can be anytime throughout the day. I gladly and enthusiastically continue applying TFT to further regain my sense of smell. This is much better than five years of thinking I would never smell again. Use TFT it really works. In addition to this more extensive usage, I have also used different TFT algorithms to alleviate other worries and anxieties.

David Burns
Portland, OR USA

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We have a preliminary report of the progress being made following our ATFT Trauma Relief interventions this August in Byumba, Rwanda. We are attaching the draft that we received from Brother Augustine. The report sent by Brother Augustine, summarizes the reports sent in by each of the thirty-six therapists we trained this August. The therapist’s reports had to be translated from Kinyarwanda to English by Brother Augustine, and this report, attached, contains the responses thus far translated. It is a busy season now in Rwanda and we may get a more complete summary sometime early next year.

It is good to know that the thirty- six therapist the ATFT Team trained have treated 622 people since our departure at the end of August. That is in addition to the 200 plus persons treated by the Rwandan therapists while we were there. It seems that TFT is making a big difference in the lives of the therapist’s, in the lives of those whose lives the therapists touch, and in the larger communities in which they live.

Good work ATFT members! All of you have helped in some really significant way. Thanks especially to team members, Caroline Sakai, Gordon Barrett, Carmen Carrasco, Gary and Cyndie Quinn.

Happy Holidays!

Suzanne M Connolly, LCSW
ATFT Foundation Trauma Relief Committee Chairperson.

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Association for Thought Field Therapy IZERE/RWANDA
(ATFT IZERE/RWANDA)

THE SYNTHESIS OF THE “THREE MONTHS FOLLOW-UP THERAPIST’S SELF-REPORTS”

1. HOW MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE YOU TREATED WITH TFT THESE THREE MONTHS?

During the three months, the 36 Rwandan therapists had treated 622 persons suffering from trauma and others psychological problems.
The average time for each client it was 25 minutes.
• I treated 40 students
• In these 3 months, I treated 45 people using TFT
• I treated 13 people
• Using TFT, I treated 18 people
• In these 3 months, I treated 42 people using TFT
• I treated 38 people
• As a policeman, I treated 27 people
• I treated 17 people
• In these 3 months, I treated 11 people using TFT
• I treated 15 people
• Using TFT, I treated 41 people
• I treated 13 people
• In these 3 months, I treated 49 people using TFT
• I treated 15 people
• In these 3 months, I treated 35 people using TFT
• I treated 10 people
• Using TFT, I treated 35 people
• In these 3 months, I treated 15 people using TFT
• I treated 38 people
• Using TFT, I treated 18 people
• In these 3 months, I treated 42 people using TFT
• I treated 38 people
• As a policeman, I treated 27 people

2. WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF TIMES YOU SAW EACH PERSON FOR HIS OR HER PROBLEMS?

• It took me long time for 22 students. I used to meet each of them twice a day. After, I taught them to treat themselves using TFT.
• The average time per person was 60 minutes
• The average time per person was 15 minutes
• The average time per person was 45 minutes
• The average per person was 20 minutes
• The average per person was 35-50 minutes
• The average is 20 minutes
• The average time per person was 50 minutes
• The average time per person was 20-40 minutes
• The average per person was 20 minutes
• The average per person was 25 minutes
• The average time per person was 15 minutes
• The average time per person was 105 minutes
• The average time per person was 40 minutes
• The average time per person was 45 minutes
• The average per person was 20 minutes
• The average per person was 35-50 minutes
• The average is 20 minutes
• The average time per person was 50 minutes
• The average time per person was 15 minutes
• The average time per person was 45 minutes
• The average per person was 20 minutes
• The average time per person was 30 minutes

3. DID YOU FEEL THAT THOUGHT FIELD THERAPY MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE PEOPLE’S LIVES THAT YOU WORKED WITH? PLEASE TELL US ABOUT THIS. WHY OR WHY NOT? WHEN DID IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND WHEN DID IT NOT?

• There is a big difference after treatment using TFT. There is much improvement after treatment. Students thought it was a joke, but as time went on they found I was not joking and they started using it seriously.

• The difference is vivid. I keep on watching on my clients after treating them and I observed big positive change in their lives.

• The difference is clear. For example, there is a client who used not to talk and now that client can talk after the TFT treatment.

• TFT made really a difference in the people’s lives. You treat a person and after you teach him/her how s/he can treat him/herself.

• People are happy. For instance, there is a client who told me that the nightmares and other strange images disappeared after treatment.

• My clients tell me that there is much positive change. The majority got cured and those who were not completely healed still use the algorithms I taught them according to their trauma.

• TFT brought big difference in my clients’ lives. For instance, one client told me that depression was very deep to the point of wanting to commit suicide, but after being treated with TFT the depression disappeared for good.

• TFT made a difference in the people’s lives I worked with. Many times my clients were depressed, and their anger could be seen on their faces, without happiness, even some of them were screaming before I started treating them. After treating them I was surprised to see their faces changing, they started rejoicing and laughing.

• The people I worked with gave testimonies of the wonders brought into their lives by TFT treatment. They are now doing their developmental works with confidence of a prosperous future. They used to fear interacting with other people but now they mix freely and socialize with others.

4. WERE THE PEOPLE YOU TREATED PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS THEY ACHIEVED BY USING TFT? PLEASE TELL US ABOUT THIS.

• Yes, they were all pleased with the results they achieved by using TFT. But, as I dealt with students, some of them were laughing at me in the beginning until they realized that TFT is helping them in their trauma problems.

• Yes, the people I treated were happy after treatment. When their trauma comes again the clients come back to me with much confidence to be treated, others come to ask me the appropriate algorithms to use in order to treat themselves.
• The clients I treated were pleased with what I did for them using TFT. Some of the people I treated told me they will help their neighbors who also have trauma.

• People have found the treatment of their trauma problems in their homes, and this treatment is effective in a very short time.
• I treat people and they go back spreading the good news brought to them by TFT.

• I treated my clients and taught them to treat themselves, and now I am happy with them. They tell me that they are also treating their family members using TFT
• Yes. The people I treated were and are still pleased with TFT results. Imagine to see a person who had lost his/her laughter laughing again, a person who was living in loneliness recovering from that loneliness, a person who had lost his sleep sleeping again, a person with nightmares getting again hi/her normal sleep, etc.!

• About my using of TFT, it is clear that treating my clients using TFT yielded and is still yielding much fruits and people are pleased with this.

5. DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR USING THOUGHT FIELD THERAPY TO HELP INDIVIDUALS IN YOUR COMMUNITY MADE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY? PLEASE DESCRIBE WHY OR WHY NOT.

• So far I am working in a boarding school and I have not yet gone outside the school to treat the people who are not students.

• Yes, my community is happy of TFT. For instance, there is a wife who used to quarrel with her husband, but after treating them using TFT there is peace in their family.

• The community is happy with TFT. For example, there are some people who lived desperately but now are no longer living in loneliness.

• Yes, there is happiness in the community in which I work because they know I live with them and I am there for them.

• Stating myself as a vivid example, I was one of the people suffering from trauma. I treated myself and I pushed ahead to treat other people. We are all better.

• TFT solved the disputes in the families.

• Using TFT brought a positive change, especially at my working place.

• Yes, my using TFT to help individuals in my community made a difference in my community. This is because the problems of one person in the community affect in a way or in another the whole community. For instance, when a person is traumatized, lonely, depressed, selfish and guilty, that person cannot develop his/her community as long as s/he is not yet freed from those problems.

• TFT helped individuals in my community finding solutions to different trauma based problems and this made and is still making positive impact in my community.

6. IS THERE ANYTHING MORE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE THESE THREE MONTHS USING THOUGHT FIELD THERAPY TO HELP OTHERS?

• In truth, my experience is not yet very high. As I am working with students, time came for them to start long holidays and this made me not continue practicing TFT in order to up bring my practical skills.

• TFT is a lasting solution to the problems caused by trauma, but the people I treat are scattered in the hills. If I could find means to transport, I am sure my service can yield more fruits that those I have so far yielded.

• TFT is helping our people. People’s trauma is decreasing and there is much improvement in people’s lives.

• It would be very beneficial for both therapists and clients if trained Rwandan therapists could also be trained in counseling in order to integrate it with TFT in treating trauma.

• Today in my community it is not a surprise to see people being freed from their trauma using TFT.

• I am now able to treat many people in a very short time with much confidence.

• What I can say in addition to what I have said so far is that I am living myself in a continual surprise of the effects of TFT to my clients.

• I am neither a medical doctor nor a psychologist by profession, but I see with my proper eyes people getting healed from their trauma and some other psychological problems.

• The clients give testimonies of their relief and this makes people like TFT.

• Thanks be to God that ATFT is a nonprofit association. If it were not, I would call it an up-to-date self funding organization. It brings satisfaction to us to see many people revering us simply because we are bringing positive change into peoples’ lives.

• Trained Rwandan therapists deserve advanced training both in TFT and in Guidance and Counseling to keep high their performance.
Thanks

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“I feel differently today….I would call it ‘normal’.

I got up at 5:30 am and I just finished making 4 pies (I volunteered to bring 2) and a triple batch of salad.

Normally, my kitchen would be a HUGE disaster once I was done making food for a holiday, but it’s completely clean and orderly and it fees awesome to have no anxiety, just a calm feeling!

Thank you for my BEST Thanksgiving yet!

Another strange thing is….. I am not even checking my e-mails or looking at the newspaper to see who has what on sale for Black Friday! So that alone is incredible!

I am more interested in looking at how to do my daily strengthening routine you gave me to do for the next 2 weeks.

Thanks again!”

You too can enjoy a stress free holiday. Our Daily Stress Busting Guide is invaluable for relieving stress or anxiety as it comes up, keeping you calm and collected as each new difficulty arises.

You can download this guide for free from our web site, www.RogerCallahan.com . Use it morning and night during this busy season.

Remember, it feels awesome to have no anxiety!

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BY DR. DARIAH MORGAN,
TFT-dx, TFT-Adv

I returned home on the afternoon of Thursday, September 24 and was greeted by the familiar red flash of my voice mail recorder.

“This is Jane Blume, Dariah… I did it, Dariah, I went over the edge! It was a struggle, a real struggle, because I had to press the guide rope with my nondominant hand, but I did it! I actually stepped off a 16 story building and rappelled down the side!”

Jane is a KUNM radio programmer in Albuquerque, NM whom my husband, Bruce, and I met during a TFT workshop that we did in Albuquerque in August. She is 66 years young, a recent grandmother, owner of Desert Sky Communications and became a widow two years ago after 44 years of marriage. “Well, do I curl up in a corner in a fetal position, or do I go out and embrace life?”, she asked herself at that time.

Rappelling down the side of a 230 foot building in downtown Albuquerque to raise money for Special Olympics New Mexico looked like embracing life to Jane, so she became the first media personality to sign up for the challenge, entitled “Over the Edge”.

Shortly after making her commitment, she called me for some TFT assistance. After two brief phone consultations, Jane was ready for the big day.

One of only two women to rappel, she had this to say at the end of her phone message….

”I have been featured on the news here…my picture (there were actually two) will be on the front page of the metro section of the Albuquerque Journal, people felt inspired, I feel inspired! I used the TFT techniques you taught me for an hour before stepping off the building! I am grateful for your help! You helped me with my intention to live fearlessly! I could not have done this without you! Thank you!”

There is a popular inspirational plaque that asks, “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” Perhaps it should read, “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could conquer your fears and accomplish things no one, including yourself, ever thought possible?”

TFT opens the door of living fearlessly to all of us!

In matter of minutes using TFT tapping, they could cope with their trauma.

Growing up, I was horribly afraid of my own shadow, strangers and public places. As a little child, I used to hide under my bed when company came and if we went out in public, I was stuck to my mom as a third leg. I have no clue what caused that fear and my parents can’t think of any trauma that happened to me. They just thought I was a very shy child.

In school, I’d have myself sick worrying about having to give a speech in front of the class or sing a recital with the choir in front of the parents. I always chose to be the person behind the scene and not the one in the spot light. I remember my body would shake, my heart would race, my mind went to mush and I’d turn bright red in the face. I didn’t even like to go anywhere by myself, especially if I didn’t know anyone else. Any new environment or change would be painful for me because I’d worry myself to the point that exhaustion.

When it came to my job or owning my own business, I knew I had to get rid of this ridiculous fear. I tried everything I could think of like therapy, desensitizing myself by forcing myself to go out to public places, acupuncture, Reiki, hypnosis, self help books and tapes. I think I tried it all. Along the way, those things did help yet their was always a lot of anxiety attached to going out and having to speak in front of people.

My husband and I did marriage prep for our church and there would be times that I thought my heart would jump through my throat or I got light headed when I had to read my part. I kept praying to God to get me through it. Afterwards, I’d be totally exhausted as if I’d run a marathon.

I’ve been in the construction industry for 28 years and have owned my own commercial/residential interior renovation company. Being a female in the construction industry has had its challenges yet there are many rewards as well. This business really toughened me up. Being in a typically “man’s” world and having to prove myself gave me the incentive to start working through my fears. I had to be around all kinds of people and clients through the years. I would never say it didn’t bother me, I just learned how to hide it under many masks.

There were times I literally wanted to throw up right before having to present to a construction board or to a discussion panel on various issues. Somehow I managed to get through it even though I was a wreck.

I experienced “Sick Building Syndrome” several times of the years where the toxins in buildings were so great, it put my immune system in overload and I ended up very sick.

Again, through many different types of conventional and non-conventional methods, I had to rebuild my health. It became my passion to educate people about the dangers of toxins that lurk in our homes and work places. There was just one little problem. I couldn’t get over my fear of speaking so I turned down many opportunities to speak.

I mostly would talk educate on a very small scale with 2 or 3 people. Word started spreading about my work and I started getting more venues invite me to speak.

In June of 08 I met Joanne Callahan at a mastermind summit and for the first time Thought Field Therapy was introduced to me. I remember her working on two clients using this “weird” tapping thing. I went home and purchased the book “Tapping the Healer Within” and a whole new world opened up to me.

I knew I had finally found a way to safely and natural way to eliminate my fears so that I could live the full life I desired.

In January of 2009 I received a call from an architect who was putting a panel together for a presentation at the Facility Manager Convention in Baltimore. The topic was “How Air Quality and Environmental Quality affects Employee Productivity”.

I was excited and honored to be asked and before I thought about it I said “Sure, I’d love to”. Then I hung up the phone and about had a heart attack when I realized this was a national convention with thousands of people. I had never given a speech like this before let alone at a convention with thousands of people. I was almost paralyzed in fear and ready to call her back and cancel. I had two weeks to put the presentation together and the entire two weeks I kept using the anxiety/stress algorithm from the book.

The day before the presentation I was a wreck and couldn’t stop shaking and my voice was wavering and I had a migraine. I just knew I couldn’t speak feeling like this.

I called doctor Callahan and had a session to work on my fear of public speaking. Over the phone through Voice Technology, Dr. Callahan created a specific series of tapping just for my immediate problem. As I did the tapping sequence he gave to me it was amazing to feel the changes going on in my body. The shaking started to subside, my heart started beating regularly, the red rash started to clear up just in minutes of doing the tapping. He got me from a 10 down to a 4 in just 15 minutes. Then, next thing I knew, I was back up to a 10 and feeling horrible. Dr. Callahan asked what just happened. I told him I hadn’t moved from the spot in my bedroom. He told me something changed and asked did anyone come into the room. I told him my son did to get some money from me. He asked me what is he wearing. I though the meant clothes so I started explaining that. Dr. Callahan then asked if he was wearing any cologne or other scent on. I said he always wears this one cologne which bothers me. He checked and said that his cologne was so toxic to me that it through me into a reversal which brought the fear back. Dr. Callahan had me do a breathing exercise to neutralize the toxin in my system.

Within minutes I started feeling. He got me back down to a 5 when my husband walked in the room and then it went back up to a 10 again. Again, Dr. Callahan asked what just happened. I told him my husband walked in the room. He asked did he have cologne on. I said no he knows not to wear anything around me since I’m so sensitive. Dr. Callahan said he had something on that was toxic to me. Just about then, I got his scent and realized he must have been near my son’s cologne. That cologne was so toxic to me that the residual scent in the house was still strong enough to throw me back into a reversal. Once again, we did the breathing exercise and went back to the tapping. After 35 minutes, Dr. Callahan was able to help me reduce my fear from a 10 to a 1. Dr. Callahan told me to take the tapping sequence with me to the convention and just before I went on stage, do the sequence again. I followed his direction and just before I went on stage I snuck into the ladies room and did the tapping.

It was the most amazing experience. At the last minute the room was changed to another one and the stage was set up differently than I had practiced on during lunch time. One of my videos didn’t load properly when the IT guy set me up so it wouldn’t play so I had to just talk about it. Then at the end, I had an Environmental Hygienist challenge me about some things I brought up in my talk. I was in disbelief that I was able to not only hold my own in spite of the challenges, I felt empowered and great.

At that point, I knew that this life long crippling fear was a thing of the past and I was now set free to go out and educate people on how to build healthier lives at home and their workplace by teaching them about toxins and their affect on our bodies and how TFT is a most wonderful, safe and natural way to eliminate fears and anxieties.

Thank you Dr. Callahan for teaching me TFT and allow a whole new world to open up to me in my healing and construction journey.

If you suffer from the fear of public speaking, try The Five Minute Cure for Public Speaking and Other Fears

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This letter was written to me one week after I did a pain treatment for a friend. This treatment arose from a casual conversation. I have known this person for about one year, and we are likely to be lifelong friends, as our commitment to helping individuals with disabilities who have become victims of crime unites us. As you will read, her exposure to TFT was completely unexpected, and she had a profound and life-changing experience.

After reading her words, I’ll tell you more of what happened… “Dr. Nora”

A Letter from My Heart…October 8, 2009

Hello!  For those who know me well, you know something about the pain I have had over the past ten years. Those who know me really well know I am not an overly emotional type of person. I tend to keep my emotions to myself. But, as I relate this story I have tears of joy running down my cheeks.

For those who do not know me, I am a Forensic Nurse. I have worked over 20 years in the field of nursing, and am extremely interested in the medical world…thus, I am continually working to learn more to hone my skills and add certifications to my credentials.

History

I am a person who has lived with moderate to severe chronic pain for what will be 10 years this November 13. On that date in 1998 I was studying for the required ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) in our hospital in-service area, while working as a recovery room/short stay nurse. After about an hour of studying “rhythm strips” and identifying the condition, I stretched my arms up into the air, and as the chair I sat in (a four wheeled steno-chair) flipped backwards, instinctively I put my right arm out to brace my fall.

My right shoulder dislocated, and then snapped back into place causing an immediate sensation of electrical “nerve like” pain, a feeling that made my hand feel fat and my entire arm, from the brachial plexus to the elbow and then ending into the palm of my right hand, hum. The electrical “zinging” down my arm was present and never went away. I also felt a sensation like my arm was falling out of its socket.

It is now, after two surgeries, 9 years of physical therapy, a trip to see a brachial plexus expert at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, 8 years of acupuncture, 9 years of Pilates, 7 years of massage and an on-going home pain management with Oxycontin, Vicodin, Flexeril, and other modalities such as Tea Tree Pain Gel, ice, heat and more massage that I am writing to you.

After all that treatment, I have still lived each day with the same searing electrical pain running down my arm non-stop.

The Story

On October 1, 2009, I was attending a conference in Denver Colorado. In the evening I was walking back to our hotel with my fellow presenter, Dr. Nora Baladerian, a psychologist from California. This followed a wonderful afternoon spent with Nora and our co-presenter, enjoying a calming afternoon of wine, massage, tea and friendship, and after we’d briefly visited a reception hosted by Arc of Aurora for the speakers at the conference. We were freezing our butts off in the cold, windy typical late Fall Denver night! We made it back to the lobby of our hotel, arm in arm and laughing at the great time we had just had.

I told Nora, how this cold really makes “that pain” in my arm hurt like a son of a gun. She asked, “what pain?” as I had not told her much about the pain before. She says, “Well let’s just sit down here-- is this is ok?” (We had just entered the lobby of our gorgeous hotel). “I’d like to try something on you for that pain” and I respond, “Sure, as long as I can keep my clothes on”. We both laughed and sat down.

So while I went along with what Nora suggested I do, the cynical portion of my very medical-model brain was trying not to laugh out loud. “Really,” I think, “After all I have been through, I will never respond to anything”. However, I am also a person who has lived in never ending chronic “nerve” pain the past almost 10 years, and I am desperate for ANYTHING to make it go away. Really! Just ask my wonderful husband. He can’t count how often I have asked him to get his chain saw and “just saw my arm off,” convinced that that would make my constant humming, zinging pain go away once and for all, and he never would!

So here I am in the lobby of the hotel, doing what Nora is telling me to do (while she does it to herself as a demonstration, I guess), tapping on myself (the back of my hand and collarbone area) and really thinking about this pain I have known for so, so long. I was even rating it in my mind, an 8 right now on the 0-10 but was a 6 earlier before it got so damn cold.

I follow Nora’s directions without regard or thought that it was going to work, or do anything whatsoever for that matter.

BUT I WAS WRONG! MY PAIN IS GONE!! I can tell you that I no longer have the nerve racking “nerve pain” in my hand, elbow and shoulder. My hand no longer feels clumsy and fat. My fingers are still a bit swollen but they are now the same color as my other hand. I still am having some phantom type signals when I raise my arm or place my hand in cold water, anticipating the pain in my mind, but when actually lifting my arm or dousing my hand, NO PAIN! I can actually raise my arm!

So for anyone with physical, emotional or psychological problems I recommend this therapy called Thought Field Therapy. I am now 1 week and many days post-treatment, and the pain I had for ten years is not back. After approximately 5 minutes of Thought Field Therapy!! I am looking forward to my water aerobics this week and for the first time being able to perform the routine without right shoulder, arm and hand pain. As I write this I am also working on lowering my blood pressure. I used the tapping therapy and treated myself, taking the pain and arthritis from my toes; I healed a Left ear tinnitus and calmed my granddaughter down from a nearly inconsolable state. I am convinced this works, I am not sure how or why, but it does. It simply does.

Submitted anonymously.

On the phone she continues to tell me of other treatments she has done now at home. She has become a complete advocate of TFT, and is thrilled with her own new freedom from unrelenting pain.

There in the lobby, I had asked her to focus on the pain. It turned out that it hurt worst in the hand, so we focused there, where the pain was “off the charts”, she rated as an 8. I administered g50, c, and asked to rerate. She said, “ I can’t believe it…it is at point five!”

She burst into tears, sobbing on my shoulder, brokenly saying, “I’m ok, these are tears of joy, of relief…I can’t believe it”. She then started moving her fingers and hand, giving her hand a test run as it were.

“Do you have pain anywhere else?”, I asked. “Ooooooh YES”, she said.

We proceeded to treat her severe chronic pain in the elbow region and the upper arm and shoulder. Each time she only required g50,c to release the pain. I never got to do 9g with her, as the pain immediately was released from her body. There were more tears, and extreme gratitude. She said if she had it she would give me a million dollars!

What gift can I give you…this is wonderful! I told her the best possible gift would be for her to learn TFT and “spread the word and the healing”.

So, we left to got to our rooms and enjoy some nice quiet time and in-room dining. On the way to the elevator we encountered a small group of folks, so I introduced her to them. After introductions she exclaimed, “OH MY GOD!!!!! It didn’t hurt! Shaking hands did not hurt!!! Oh My God”… This is the first time in ten years that I can shake hands and it doesn’t hurt!!!!! Nora just did a treatment on me for my severe chronic pain and…” she was unable to finish as one in the group interrupted with “Oh, the tapping? Yes, she did it on me a few years ago in Michigan for some problems I was having with being so angry, frustrated and upset, and it worked!!!."

The following day when I arrived at the breakfast area, the Forensic Nurse was talking with some other folks. When I approached one said, “Your ears must be burning!!” while another reached out and grabbed me saying, “I need you!!! I have had terrible pain in my feet, can you help?” So, we treated her, bringing her plantar fascia pain from an 8 to a 0. So, we had another happy camper.

All told, it was magical, yet not magic. Simply the application of the algorithms that are appropriate for the problem.

Thank you, again, Roger, for your amazing discovery.

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Contact Dr. Nora for treatment, referrals in your area, or to bring her to your area to train your group or community…or join one of her training classes in West Los Angeles, CA. For more information refer to the Institute of Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Dr. Nora J. Baladerian, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist and Licensed MFT. Office 310 473 6768, Email drnora@doctor.com - Website www.norabaladerian.com.

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A Daily Stress Busting Program To Help You Quit The Coffee Habit, Create Calm, and Reduce Your Blood Pressure.

If you haven’t downloaded your copy of the free Daily Stress Busting Program, isn’t it time to do so?

We just received another thank-you note from one of our customers. She just began using the Stress Busting Program and is already seeing results on herself and her family.

Betty reports, “After using both the Trauma and Stress Busting downloads I immediately read and used them on myself practicing so I could use them on my Mother and a friend in Calif. who just lost her job. Just practicing the tapping sequence on myself and not really tuning in to a specific problem but more the sequence I was able to quit my coffee habit that I have been trying to quit for 4 months now.”

She also reported benefits for her mother, “I feel real calm just using the Collarbone Breathing with my Mom but I get the benefits as well. We are working on a physical problem of 2 leaking mitral valves so I did the Trauma recipes and the Stress recipes on her it seems to help her blood pressure.”

Remember how important it is to eliminate stress. Our health depends on it. Look at what some of the leading health care authorities say about stress:

• CDC – stress is cause of 90% of all illnesses
• Stanford Medical School – 95% of all illness is stress related
• Mayo Clinic – just watching 10” minutes of today’s news disrupts many body systems
• Cleveland Clinic – chronic stress leads to many diseases
• Harvard School of Medicine – illness is the tip of the iceberg, stress mars joy from life and loved ones

Obviously, we are not the only ones noticing this and the devastating effect it is having on our well-being. I was on another call last night about health care issues and they were stating many of the same facts and data.

The doctor leading the call also focused on stress as the major cause of illness, relationship problems, and, financial security.

He went on to say that stress causes five things:

• Poor health
• Fatigue/tiredness
• Dumbs us down – pulls blood flow from higher brain functions
• Causes pessimism and negativism
• Causes failure – due to 1-4

We all want to feel good, have lots of energy, be alert and on top of our game, positive and upbeat and succeed in all we do. TFT can be a tool to address all these areas. Click here to go and get your free Daily Stress Busting Program now.

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