About EFT

Classical Emotional Freedom Technique was developed by Gary Craig in the 1990’s. Gary Craig had trained with Dr Roger Callahan, a psychologist, who in 1979, was working with a client called Mary, around her extreme fear of water. Dr Callahan and Mary were sitting near a pool, Mary was frightened being so near water and complained about stomach pains. Dr Callahan had been studying Chinese medicine and the meridian system. He asked Mary to tap under her eye as this is one of the points for the stomach meridian, hoping is would soothe the stomach pains. Tapping on this point did take away the stomach pains and to their amazement her phobia of water also disappeared.

Dr Callahan continued to work with, investigate and develop his technique. He named it, Thought Field Therapy (TFT). Dr Callahan developed a set of different sequence tapping for each specific problem and the associated triggers or emotions. Thought Field Therapy is today known as the energetic field that surrounds a thought or belief system and the associated emotions.
Gary Craig took what he had learned from Dr Callahan and created EFT. He decided that the specific order of tapping was not so important. In 1995, he published handbooks and a video set, called “The EFT Course”. 

Dr Silvia Hartmann learned and worked with the Classical EFT Protocol for many years with great results and in 2010 she created Energy EFT Heart and Soul based on Gary Craigs work. She writes that “over the years there had been significant advances in the nature of energy work and so developed EFT with Energy in mind”. She changed the classical EFT protocol by leaving some points out and added the Heart Healing position, the crown point, the ring finger point and deep breathing to the EFT Heart and Soul Protocol.

EFT has become more intuitive and holistic, integrating deep breathing and additional meridian points to cater to the advancements in energy work. As we embrace EFT today, we acknowledge a history of innovation and how emotional freedom can support the intricate connection between mind, body, and spirit.