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Tapping the Healer Within : Using Thought Field Therapy to Instantly Conquer Your Fears, Anxieties, and Emotional Distress

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TFT (Thought Field Therapy) and it's children, EFT and BSFF, are AMAZING! It is simple, easy to learn and highly effective for most people. I can not recommend learning this therapy enough.

However, this book is just okay. Mr. Callahan obviously had to fill up a certain number of pages, so the redundancy on the algorithm pages is phenomenal (even though the same "9 gamut" process is incorporated in nearly every therapy, he repeats the wordy step-by-step instructions every time - adding about 50 pages to the book!) He is also very interested in selling people on taking his extremely expensive Voice Technology course (in the thousands of dollars). Every time he mentions VT, he follows with "a new and highly effective therapy" or something like that. Very distracting when he references VT every third page.

But no matter how I feel about the way the book was written, the information is invaluable. Which is why I gave the book 4 stars. I can not thank him enough for discovering this therapy - and I can not thank Gary Craig (founder of EFT) enough for introducing me to the concept.

THS AMAZING BOOK HAS CURED ME OF A DANGEROUS ADDICTION TO GAMBLING IN CASINOS (IN SAN DIEGO THERE ARE ABOUT NINETEEN CASINOS HERE ALONE) THE MONEY WASTED COULD HAVE TAKEN ME TO EUROPE AND BACK AND STILL PURCHASE A CONDO IN SARDINIA!!! I AM TRULY GRATEFUL TO DR. CALLAHAN AND HIS DISCOVERY OF TAPPING THESE ENERGY POINTS - IT WORKS! I HAVE MY LIFE BACK; MY FAMILY THANKS YOU TOO. ADDITIONALLY, THIS METHOD OF TAPPING AS DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK ALSO REMOVED THE TRAUMA OF A RAPE ASSAULT WHICH HAPPENED OVER 30 YEARS AGO!! REGULAR VISITS TO A PSYCHOTHERAPIST ONLY MADE THE TRAUMA REAL AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH NO RELIEF. THIS METHOD IS TRULY A LIFESAVER; WITHIN MINUTES THE TRAUMA WAS GONE! IT DID NOT CHANGE THE PAST AS IT HAPPENED--IT'S JUST NOT PAINFUL ANY MORE.

I AM A LAYPERSON AND A VERY GRATEFUL ONE AT THAT TO DR. CALLAHAN. THANK YOU SIR...YOU WERE TRULY GUIDED BY THE SUPREME BEING.

I find it terribly sad that so many have ego problems with using and understanding these techniques. They are simple, profound, and effective IF USED PROPERLY. Roger Callahan is the "godfather" of EFT, and Energy Medicine in general. Here he shares his exciting discoveries as a practical guide for self-help of a multitude of issues confronting the average human. One of the primary steps to using this effectively for yourself is to keep your mind steadily focused on the issue you are attempting to heal. Since most of us have trouble with this type of "one pointed" focus (our minds can bounce around at lightening speed!), we may have trouble getting results, and consider this a failure. It isn't!
As a suggestion to the person with the blushing problem...a focus on the "feeling" that comes before the actual blushing would most likely work. However, it sounds like this person has a lot of trouble with embarassment in general....and may need to work on a multitude of aspects before getting relief. I find it fascinating that the idea of tapping on the accupoints would cause such traumatic embarrassment! I think we need to lighten up....and perhaps deal with the phobia of "feeling like a fool". This is not a proctological exam here. As the old saying goes...let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater! Sometimes the spirit of playfullness works better than taking ourselves too seriously and making unrealistic demands of a technique. As a healing practioner who now uses these techniques regularly, I would say that less than 1 in 100 do not get results.I find that "operator error" is responsible with my clients.At times they forget something...and need to be corrected. Those who aren't happy with the results would do well to find a PERSON TO GUIDE THEM to make sure you are doing the technique properly.Let's consider that exercise can do more harm than good if not done properly. Should we stop exercizing because we once injured ourselves? One interesting side effect for my clients is that the healing can be SO COMPLETE they forget they ever had the problem in the first place! Apex effect! Interesting considering that the problem dominated their thinking 95% of the time prior to treatment.I have tried these techniques on myself, and was able to heal the following issues: poor self image, insomnia, tinnitus, childhood trauma, chronic fatigue, back pain due to injury, to name a few. My advice is DON'T KNOCK IT TILL YOU"VE TRIED IT....AND KNOW YOU"RE DOING IT RIGHT!

Written in a style much more accessible to the general reader than his previous, more professionally oriented, book "Stop the Nightmares of Trauma", Dr. Callahan gives us a concise and fascinating account of his development of TFT from its earliest beginnings to the latest findings. Also included are treatment protocols for the self-help of numerous emotional problems, with a confidently stated 75-80% success rate. Of course, this may come as a disappointment to the 20-25% on whom the treatments are initially unsuccessful but Dr. Callahan invites them to explore their options further in an excellent troubleshooting section and an invitation to contact him for further advice. An opportunity too good to miss! However, there will almost always be those for whom "no change" is unacceptable and they will no doubt dismiss Dr. Callahan's work in its entirety. Amusingly, he even explores this and other "TFT induced" phenomena in an entertaining account of what he calls the Apex Problem! Overall, a particularly optimistic look into the future of treatment for troubled emotion and highly recommended.

I am a Medical Doctor of Ecuador and I`ve been using the method for a few months and it really works in the percentages that Dr Callahan mentions in his book. It is a self help book, I think that the reason why some of the people who mention that the method didn't work on them was that in some cases the help of a professional trained in the method is required. Most of the time you can practice in your own home, but other times you really need help, the acupressure points need to be tapped in the rigth spot, if you tapp a little far away you are not producing the effect that you need. So give a try, if it is not effective look for someone trained in the method. Fernando Camacho MD

I purchased this book with high hopes after reading about thought field therapy in another book (When Working Out Isn't Working Out). The book is well written and easy to understand. After finishing the book I began trying the methods described therein right away. At first I wasn't too disappointed with the lack of results because I thought I might have done something wrong. I read the book again and tried the methods again. Still no results. I still did not give up. For weeks I have tried to make thought field therapy work for me. As of yet the results have been entirely negative.

I cannot say that the method will not work for others. Perhaps I have, in some unknown way, missed something. But the methods are simple and it is hard for me to imagine what I might be doing wrong. I have to conclude that thought field therapy simply does not work for me.

The method involves tapping various point of the body after thinking of an event that causes one anxiety. It is also supposed to work with physical pain, depression and other problems; however, it has not worked at any level for me. The book has clear illustrations about when and how to go about tapping (and humming, and counting) so one can easily follow the instructions. There is nothing complex about it, other than identifying the specific problem then going about the specific routine described in the book for that problem.

All in all I would have given the book one star (and I do not recommend the book) because of the ineffectiveness of the program in my case; however, as the book was well written and illustrated and might work for someone else I have given it two stars.

I have been waiting for this book for several years. I saw Roger Callahan on television years ago and used his technique VERY successfully in my life. I loaned out my information and knew I had forgotten several of the steps. Now I have something to refer back to. This book is a keeper because you don't only use it for yourself, you use it for everyone you know. Even people nervous or frightened in airports of other situations can benefit. I know it sounds strange, but it works wonders. Thank you, Dr. Callahan, for putting this down in print.

TAPPING THE HEALER is a wonderful resource. I have used the techniques in this book on myself and my clients and have found them to be as sure-fire as self-help techniques can get. Dr. Callahanshould be applauded to discovering the remarkable connection between the body's energy field and the emotions. At last there is an energy-based technique for taking care of unwanted emotional and psychological problems. I ahve used the techniques in this book to eliminate phobias in a number of my clients. It worked each time, was rapid, simple and the phobic problems have not recurred in any of the clients. I'm sold!

I have read a number of Dr. Callahan's books and have found all of them helpful, as is Thought Field Therapy.I found Tapping the Healer Within to be the best written and easiest to follow. When the algorithms(the most basic level of TFT)don't work, I have been able to obtain relief from a Diagnostically trained TFT therapist. Unlike other reviewers, I have found Dr. Callahan to be very helpful and supportive. I found Tapping the Healer Within to be well worth the investment. Good read!

As a former top-level practitioner of TFT, I had initially given this book a glowing 5-star review when it first came out. Now, however I find myself in the position of having to retract that review and put this one in its place. I found through an experiment I did with his proprietary $100,000 Voice Technology, that TFT does not live up to the tremendous claims that are made in this book and over my 7 years of association with Dr. Callahan, found that he was making claims I could no longer stand by.

The successes in this book are anecdotal and the fact is that the claims of TFT have never been submitted to the rigors of the scientific method. Callahan believes that controlled studies are not needed, ignoring the propensity that we all have for focusing on successes and discounting and explaining away the failures. The great physicist Richard Feynman said that the true scientist bends over backwards to prove his theories wrong. Unfortunately, TFT proponents have done just the opposite and have bent over backwards to prove themselves right and to ignore or explain away failures. Callahan boasts that his work is on a par with hard science, but he will need to adopt the procedures of the scientific method before serious scientists will pay attention to his work or his grandiose claims.

Additionally, the section on "research" on TFT is highly misleading. For instance, a 1998 study was declared to be "published", neglecting to mention that it was published in Callahan's own newsletter, not a peer reviewed journal as one might assume from such a statement. Callahan also misreports the findings of the Figley & Carbonell FSU study on TFT, saying that the TFT group showed significantly more improvement than the other treatments, when this was not the case. The study was not designed to compare the treatments and looking at the numbers, there is no indication that TFT did significantly better. I made Callhan aware of this error at the time the book came out, but so far he has done nothing to correct it. For an accurate report on the study, see:
http://www.fsu.edu/~trauma/promising.html

I would urge potential consumers of TFT to be cautious and skeptical.