Page 39 - Kallima Spiritual Centre - Newsletter - July/August 2020

This technique was discovered by an eminent American clinical psychologist ‘Dr Callahan’ who specialised in anxiety disorders and emotional problems.
He had a particularly difficult case with a patient he had been treating for 18 months with little success.
She was terrified of water, including simple things like bathing her children, showering or even washing‐up. All were a trauma for her. She would have frequent headaches and even nightmares and had been going from doctor to doctor, therapist to therapist for years trying to get a solution, but still her phobia persisted.
Dr Callahan tried everything he could from hypnosis to cognitive therapy, relaxation therapy, bio feed back, rational emotive therapy and systematic desensitisation. Dr Callahan’s hopes were that eventually he could get his patient to dip her feet in his swimming pool. But all the treatments achieved were to give his patient a blinding headache and high panic attacks.
Nothing worked.
One day the patient mentioned that when she felt the fear regarding water she felt it in her stomach area. Dr Callaghan had studied the meridian system that Chinese acupuncturists had used, and realised that the meridian relating to the stomach begins just below the eye.
So on a whim he suggested that his patient tapped on this point.
She did then and cried out ‘It’s gone’ In that instant, the physical problem had disappeared and to make it more amazing the patient ran outside to the pool and started splashing water on her face. Yet a few minutes before this simple task would have been impossible.
Her severe phobia had vanished – never to reappear.
Dr Callaghan realised that traditional methods were too slow, too cumbersome or even just not very effective. He went on to devise a simple method which he named ‘Callahan Technique’, which evolved into ‘Thought Field Therapy (TFT), then simplified that to E.F.T. and eventually E.F.T. Energy was developed.
E.F.T. had been found.
Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT is often known as Tapping or EFT Tapping. It is a universal healing tool that can provide impressive results for physical, emotional and performance issues.
EFT operates on the premise that no matter what part of your life needs improvement, there are unresolved emotional issues in the way. Even for physical issues, chronic pain, or diagnosed conditions, it is common knowledge that any kind of emotional stress can impede the natural healing potential of the human body. 39