Is there a difference between Thought Field Therapy and Emotional Freedom Techniques?
This question is often asked – especially by those who have learned only EFT. Both involve guiding the client to tap on acupressure points whilst focussing on the target problem. Some of the material presenting EFT, including that by its founder, Gary Craig, gives the impression that EFT is an improved version of TFT – whilst Dr Callahan is know to have described EFT as “TFT for idiots”. In Gary Craig’s original account of EFT in his manual, there is nothing included that is not part of TFT – but some parts of TFT have been excluded in order to create a simplified version. These excluded parts are the more difficult and subtle aspects – the diagnostic testing for sequences of meridian points and for reversals – the very features that Dr Callahan considers central and crucial to TFT. Despite the arguments of some to the contrary, the sequence of meridian points does matter. In the diagnostic muscle testing procedure developed by Dr Callahan, the sequencing of meridians underpinning the
