A
new view on the
Mind-Body connection
TFT
was discovered in 1981 by Dr. Roger
Callahan, a cognitive psychologist
who had tried everything in his repertoire
to help a woman with a lifelong,
severe and apparently intractable
water phobia.
He
decided to try a variation on a holistic,
mind-body healing method he had been
studying, based on the theory in
Chinese medicine that energy flows
along meridian lines in the body.
These meridian points appear to act
as a governing force in healing and
growth. When the energy points are
blocked or unbalanced, the person
experiences emotional disturbance
or what Dr. Roger Callahan calls "perturbations."
He
discovered that by directly treating
the blockage in the energy flow created
by a disturbing thought pattern,
the disturbance or upset disappears.
It virtually eliminates any negative
feeling previously associated with
a thought.
In
an attempt to help Mary, his patient
with the water phobia, he tested
his theory. He asked her to think
about water, tap with two fingers
on the point that connected with
the stomach meridian and much to
his surprise, her fear of water completely
disappeared.
"The
fear is gone!," she exclaimed
and went running around the swimming
pool behind his office.
Not
only had her fear evaporated but
the apparent cure remains effective
to this day.
Callahan
continued to expand on his discovery
and has come up with a number of
brief treatments or "algorithms." Algorithms
are step-by-step procedures or sequences
of body taps geared to particular
conditions which patients can perform
on themselves.
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