We offered a series of five teleclasses, beginning last January and ending in November.  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 teleclasses 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 this year.  They are a wonderful opportunity to experience the healing power of TFT for yourself.  This year our classes will have guest experts and address many specific or new areas of help. 

Click here for details about our next class.

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

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.

Roger and I have just returned from the UK and a great Optimal Health course where some of our long time practitioners of TFT, as well as a few new ones, have added the Voice Technology level to their skills.  They came from numerous health care fields to add the convenience and effectiveness of TFT VT to support the emotional health of their clients and training base.  It was a very diverse group and we all shared information on tapping within the fields of nursing, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, Reiki, hypnosis, trauma specialists and counseling, and, even a little EMDR.

Roger also taped a brief interview with Tom Greenhalgh, Executive Director of National Public Safety Solutions,  for his training programs.  I taped a brief segment on our trauma relief work and our Freedom R & R program for our returning veterans, for the ATFT Foundation,  and our Trauma Relief Blog.

Tom has an excellent production crew and facility and our hope is to have these tapes available to all our trainers for use in their trainings as well.  I will keep our trainers posted on their availability (on the trainer’s list serve).  Thank you Tom!

During the course we saw some excellent improvements in HRV’s as we worked on everyone’s personal issues throughout the weekend.  The objective self-testing and self-treatment methods allowed everyone to help themselves in many areas, as well as improve their clients, especially those who they had found difficult to help in the past.

One attendee helped a client with the recent death of a parent, another helped a sibling with PTSD from war, and several helped family members with various physical pain issues.  We had a variety of problems to practice on and they were enlightening learning experiences for everyone.

Also, we'll be hosting another "Learn to Tap" Teleclass.

It has been a great experience for both Roger and I, and our class attendees.  They are doing an amazing job of applying tapping to themselves for  all kinds of life stresses, past traumas, over eating, claustrophobia and much more.

The teleclass format has proven to be a very effective way to help many people and provide them with one-on-one interaction with Roger and I, at a very reasonable cost.

Our country’s current economic state and the increased daily stress for most people make a low cost, easy to attend tele-class an effective way to solve problems.

As many are facing job interviews, employee reviews, new social or peer groups as your situations change, we find many of our customers are experiencing some degree of discomfort with these events.  The class starts at the end of the month .

Click here to register for the 2-part tele-class.

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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By Mark Steinberg, PhD.

How long does Thought Field Therapy treatment last? This seems to be an obsession among many people we talk to, skeptics and seekers alike.

Here is a good example:

Last February, I treated a 16-year old for OCD symptoms, using diagnostic face-to-face TFT. This adolescent had seriously disabling symptoms. He felt that there were good times to leave his house and bad times. If he missed the narrow window of good times, he could not leave his house. He was in grave distress.

Obviously, this condition seriously impacted his life. Ironically, he functioned very well outside of his obsessive compulsiveness. He was an excellent student and a first-string quarterback on his high school football team. His OCD included numerous restricting rituals, such as checking many things repeatedly and counting ritualistically.

After one TFT diagnostic treatment, his SUD went to a 1. He was giggling and flushed. I asked him to get upset about his problem, and, of course, he could not do it. Seeing how relaxed and jovial he had become, I needled him a bit to test the limits and validity of these results.

Oh, come on, I prodded. Isn't it obvious that certain times are bad, and you should avoid leaving during those times?

That's ridiculous, he laughed. I know I was like that, but not anymore. I can leave at any time.

We were both impressed by the dramatic and rapid results.

I didn't see him for a year, and found myself thinking about him. Figuring that his problem was pretty severe, and that he might need more help, I called him to find out how he was doing, and to let him know that I could now treat him with Voice Technology.

To my amazement, he said he was doing fine, his problem of only leaving the house at certain times and checking things and counting had completely disappeared, and he did not need any treatment.

He said, I guess the treatment really worked. As an afterthought he added, Or maybe I just matured.

I was pleased, but dumfounded. (Nothing like an apex to end a conversation!)

Obsessing about how long this single treatment had lasted, I had to remind myself that keeping someone better was a better treat than treating someone longer.

Like the treatment, that is a thought that lasts.

TFT and Thought Field Therapy Meridian Tapping Energy has a lasting effect.

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For further information on training in TFT or a listing of practitioners, go to www.TFTRX.com .

Thought Field Therapy Tapping into Emotional Freedom

by Elyssa Paige

If I told you that you could completely rid yourself of fear, anxiety and stress in a matter of minutes, what would you say?

That’s what Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is all about. By simply tapping on acupressure points in a specific order, you balance the body’s energy system and release negative emotions.

I discovered this modality during a stressful time in my life in which I thankfully found my way to the cozy office of Sharon Goodlove, Certified Thought Field Therapy Diagnostician. She showed me how to treat myself in one session. Recently we spoke again—this time to empower others to release negativity and heal themselves through TFT.

Vision Magazine: How does TFT eliminate emotional distress, phobias and traumas?
Sharon Goodlove: For most phobias and simple anxieties, TFT is a process that balances energy and eliminates phobias in one session which takes about an hour, sometimes less. During a session, you show the person how to use their fingertips to tap on certain acupressure points on their body in a set order, which we call an algorithm. It’s like following a recipe; you don’t put the cake in the oven before you start it up. After following that recipe or algorithm, while you’re thinking about whatever the phobia is, you notice that you don’t have that feeling anymore. We use a four-letter word sometimes, which is “cure.” Not too many people in the healing field use that word; they might say they treat or help you. With phobias and simple anxieties, we say TFT will cure them and if it doesn’t, there are no bad side effects, symptoms or drugs involved.

VM: Can you give an example of a successful session?
SG: A recent client said that she wanted to be able to use a new trolley station, but she couldn’t get herself to climb the stairs. As she was telling the story, she was already in what we call the “thought field,” or the field of energy [created] when she thinks about a certain thing. So I asked her two questions: Where do you feel it, if there was any place in your body that resonates with that fear? Sometimes people will say their bellies are churning, their hearts are beating faster, or their palms are sweaty. She thought about it, and then I asked her the second question: on a scale of one to 10, where is your level of upset right now? She said it was about an eight or nine. Then I showed her how to tap on these points on her body while I tap on mine so she can see where the points are. This took about five minutes, maybe a little less. Then I asked her again how she was feeling when she thought about it. And she said, “well, those stairs really are sturdy and lots of other people are walking on them; maybe I can do it too.”

Now what I’ve noticed is that the treatment seems to quell the fear so that the clear-thinking, rational part of the person comes back. And so she decided to give the stairs a try. She gave me a check for $100, which is my fee for eliminating phobias—if it works for the person. I told her I wouldn’t cash it until she gave me a call saying what her experience was. So she went over to the trolley station, walked up the stairs, and called me from the top, saying, “too bad I don’t have anyplace to go right now; I could ride the trolley!” That’s one really amazing example and it happens all the time with as wide a range of phobias as you can imagine.

VM: How does TFT relate to the field of modern medicine and healing?
SG: I think that it’s one of the most groundbreaking foundational levels of good health because when your body is in anxiety, fear, or upset of any sort, it affects your whole system. I believe that the mind, body and spirit are all one unit so if you’re emotionally upset or you’re physically perturbed with some crisis, it affects all of you.

Using a method like TFT to relax the emotions helps you feel better spiritually as well. You become more calm, peaceful, and mindful. It also helps you physically; your blood pressure lowers and your immune system is enhanced because you’re not taxing it with emotional upset.

VM: Have there been any instances of TFT alleviating physical illness, considering, as you say, that our emotions are connected to our physical wellness?
SG: TFT has been used by many people when they have disease processes. I think of it as a hand-in-glove kind of a connector. There have been many people around the world who have reported that their medical treatments have progressed remarkably quickly, according to their physicians, because they’ve been using TFT to relax their emotional upsets. Their physical treatments of cancers or other ailments progress much more quickly. Does TFT do the healing? I don’t think so. There are many adjunctive types of treatments that will help your medical condition improve and TFT is one of those.

VM: Can you talk a little bit about how TFT was discovered?
SG: Dr. Roger Callahan, who I believe is now in his early 80s, was a behavioral cognitive therapist. He was also a fellow with the American Hypnotherapy Association and in good standing in the traditional psychotherapeutic community. At a convention, he saw a chiropractor named George Goodheart presenting a paper about using a series of muscle relaxations and adjustments to help athletes who were trying out for the U.S. Olympic team.

Dr. Callahan noticed that this chiropractor was using muscle testing by [having] the person hold out the arm very steadily and then [applying] light pressure. He noticed that their muscles weakened when they thought of something negative and realized that maybe his [patients] who had various phobias and anxieties might benefit from the same kind of treatment. So he began a study of biokinesiology muscle testing and acupressure. And that’s basically how he started—by learning those two adjunctive methods and giving up hypnotherapy and behavioral cognitive therapy. As a result, he was not well accepted by his peers in the very traditional forms of psychotherapy. However, he persisted and he hit upon—we sometimes say tapped upon (with tongue-in-cheek) a new treatment that immediately gives relief to people’s fears.

VM: You mentioned that Dr. Callahan lost his good standing with the medical community after he made his discoveries. What do you attribute this reaction to?
SG: It’s the same for individuals. If you had a fear of something for a period of time and now within five or 15 minutes—it’s gone? It seems too good to be true. Dr. Callahan referred to this as the apex problem; you’ve reached the top too fast, so it must not have been that difficult to begin with. It’s sort of like you don’t even remember how bad it was. Also, a lot of healing professionals seem to be very good at a narrow range of knowledge. It’s the alternative therapies that I believe have that range of knowledge, plus [these practitioners have] added in one, two or several other ways of looking at a situation. They go outside the box to develop a broader spectrum of knowledge. They try other methods and see whether they are helpful or not. They’re not so closed to one perspective.

VM: What is the difference between Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and TFT?
SG: As I understand it, since I’m certified in both, Gary Craig trained with Dr. Callahan back in the 90s, [after which] he did a spin off; he took that information, sort of clumped the treatments together into one long sequence of tapping points, and called it EFT. And as best as I can tell, there are several other people who have done the same thing. When I took the EFT trainings, I used it exclusively for about a three-month period of time. I found it helpful because basically, the concepts and treatment modalities of TFT are hugely powerful, so even a piece of them is still very powerful. While they’re not the same, I think it’s positive in the sense that the people who have taken some of the technique and applied it to their own [situation] are using a really helpful modality and that’s a benefit to the planet.

VM: Can people practice TFT at home?
SG: That’s one of the great benefits of TFT. I give people homework. I give them printouts of the treatment and ask them to use a log sheet to keep track. I found that when you start using the technique and teaching people how to treat themselves, they don’t need to come back—which is good! And when you don’t have people returning to you, you have to reach a lot more people. In Dr. Callahan’s case, he said that he just about had to file for bankruptcy because people got well so quickly that they didn’t have to come back. It’s no longer necessary when you are doing something that works exponentially quickly, without side effects, and you can do it on your own at home.

VM: What is one thing we could do each day to heal ourselves and create wellness in our lives?
SG: If you focus on what the illness or the upset is in your world, you can focus on that feeling and do a few tapping techniques that take a minute or two. Then do your regular routine of meditating, taking a walk, calling a friend or giving a prayer and a blessing for your day. I see TFT as a basic treatment that you intuitively can go to when you feel things are out of balance.