| Potted History | | | | who had studied Kinesiology with him, his name was |
| Based on the ancient Chinese Meridian Energy | | | | Dr. Roger Callahan. Dr. Callahan also had an interest in |
| system, EFT along with its fellow energy therapies | | | | Eastern Health Practises. |
| can trace their roots far, far, back to the earliest | | | | The story goes... |
| origins of acupressure and shiatsu. Both of which, | | | | During the early 80s Dr. Callahan had a patient who |
| where developed independently, yet around the | | | | had come to see him for approximately 18mths, for |
| same time, in China and Japan. Strange as it may also | | | | her phobia of water, her name was Mary. Having |
| seem, there has been other evidence, though hard | | | | gone from therapist to therapist, with headaches, |
| to date, that groups of people as diverse as the | | | | nightmares etc., to do with her water phobia, Mary |
| Bantu in Africa, people in the Alpine Oetz Valley and | | | | saw Dr. Callahan, possibly as her last chance. |
| the Eskimos in the Arctic carried out acupuncture-like | | | | Frustrated that during that time there was only a |
| treatment. | | | | slight change in Mary, one day Dr. Callahan decided to |
| | | | put his studies of the energy system in our bodies to |
| Background | | | | the test. He started to tap under Marys' eye |
| It was during the 1960's that a Dr. George Goodheart | | | | (meridian end point for stomach) and what happened |
| who was a Chiropractor, started to look at the | | | | next was astonishing. After complaining of discomfort |
| possible links between organs in the body, meridians | | | | in her tummy, Mary suddenly announced her phobia |
| and the bodies muscle strength, utilizing the work | | | | was gone! To prove this Mary rushed down to Dr. |
| started in the 1950's by two physical therapists | | | | Callahan's' pool and started splashing herself with |
| Kendall and Kendall. From this he continued to develop | | | | water. |
| a diagnostic muscle testing therapy. Over the years | | | | Apparently Mary's energy flow was disturbed by her |
| various people continued to study theories relating to | | | | intense fear, by tapping under her eye Dr. Callahan |
| the body, meridian energy and muscles including Felix | | | | had sent tiny pluses to the meridian and balanced the |
| Mann who founded the Medical Acupuncture Society | | | | problem out. Mary's fear went away and never did |
| ( President 1959-1980) who did research on | | | | come back. Spending the next ten years studying |
| acupuncture meridians and Chapman and Owen, who | | | | and developing this, Dr. Callahan named the therapy |
| studied Neurovascular reflex's. All mixed together | | | | Thought Field Therapy. |
| their work grew into the science of Applied | | | | Providing training programmes on this technique, |
| Kinesiology, however it wasn't until 1973 that a | | | | different therapists trained in TFT and a few of |
| colleague of Dr. Goodhearts called John Thie published | | | | them went on to develop their own energy |
| a book called "Touch for Health" and brought the | | | | therapies. The founder of EFT was one of these |
| science of Applied Kinesiology to the general public. | | | | therapist, Gray Craig a 'performance coach' (who was |
| During the '70's there was a psychologist called John | | | | originally trained in engineering at Stanford University) |
| Diamond who used his studies of Applied Kinesiology | | | | spent the next 20 years examining and developing a |
| in his psychotherapy workplace. He named this new | | | | simplified process of TFT, one where all the meridians |
| field of psychotherapy and applied kinesiology | | | | could be covered at once. EFT was born. |
| 'Behavioural Kinesiology'. John Diamond had a student | | | | |