A first hand description. Here's how Dr. Callahan describes it in his 1990 book, "The Rapid Treatment of Panic, Agoraphobia and Anxiety. ""....I was totally unprepared for what happened. As I tapped under her eyes, Mary said, "It's gone!." "What's gone?", I asked. "My fear of water, it's gone, I don't have those awful feelings in my stomach any more!" We were working in my home office and I said, with a somewhat challenging and skeptical tone, "Let's go down to the pool and see." I fully expected her to resist as usual, but, to my surprise, I had to hurry to keep up with her on the way to the pool. For the first time, she looked at the water, put her head near it and splashed water in her face, from the shallow end. I watched in amazement, as she joyfully shouted, "It's gone, it's gone!" Mary's next move frightened me. She suddenly ran toward the deep end of the pool, and this sudden total absence of fear around the pool was so unusual for her that I shouted, "Mary, be careful!" I was afraid that she might jump into the pool and drown. She laughed when she saw my alarm and reassured me; "Don't worry Doctor Callahan, I know I can't swim."

Ten years experience with the treatment has since taught me that the treatment does not cause sudden stupidity. Respect for reality, I have learned, is not diminished by successful treatment. All Mary needed was that tap under the eyes. Later, I learned that most people need more. In any case, I started trying the treatments on some of my other phobic clients, and found that I got similar results in about one of five. The discovery of psychological reversal and other refinements in the treatments have now boosted our success rate to about 98%. The first question I usually get is, "Does the treatment last?" The implicit assumption is that if something is done quickly, it can't last. This is pure prejudice against the "quick fix"; the answer is; it usually does last; in a small number of cases it might have to be repeated. Of course, it is easy to repeat. Usually, in such cases, the person is cured and after ten years Mary has no trace of this problem. Interestingly, there have been no nightmares about water since that first treatment....."

This, of course, got Dr. Callahan's attention. He has since refined and expanded his findings to a series of related routines. They encompass nearly every area of emotional improvement imaginable....from phobias to panic disorders to sports performance. And, along the way, he has also applied these techniques to physical problems and addictive cravings with notable success. EFT is based on all these procedures. It reduces years of diligent research and endless trial and error to one practical course that you can master in your living room. It is like having your own private guide to a workable version of the most stunning personal improvement findings in the last 100 years.

What had happened here is that the Meridian for the stomach was unbalanced and after tapping under the eye, which is one end point of the stomach Meridian, the natural flow of energy for that Meridian was balanced. The phobia and all associated with it vanished.

Our body's natural inclination is towards health. If that were not so then humanity would have died out a long time ago. We would have died from simple sore throats, splinters, rashes or any manner of simple ailment, we simply would not have survived.

EFT™ is a painless, rapid and usually a permanent way of removing these energy blocks and balancing our natural energy.