About Thought Field Therapy – My Approach

Thought Field Therapy has been called the power therapy of the 21st century.

Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is:

• Simple and straight forward
• Engages the body’s natural healing system
• Drug-free
• Non-invasive
• Self administered
• Uses acupressure points to be tapped with your fingers
• Rapid; usually long lasting
• Does not require belief in it
• Does no harm
• Works with any population
• Is offered though the convenience of the telephone therapy

What is Thought Field Therapy?

Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a simple appearing, straightforward technique for resolving emotional disturbances and psychological issues. Engaging the body’s natural healing system, TFT utilizes acupressure points on your body that you activate by tapping them with the fingertips while thinking about a specific problem. Doing so removes disturbing information from the thought field that has been allowing your distress to persist.

The term “thought field” refers to what you are thinking about at a specific moment. You can be in a thought field where your focus is happy; you can be in a thought field where you are thinking of something that makes you upset. Thought Field Therapy gets its name from the notion that what is being treated resides in the thought field.

When coping with negative emotions, such as trauma, grief, anger, guilt, and others, the thought field is believed to contain information that allows distress or disturbance to persist. Elimination of this information means relief from the problem. As a result of the tapping procedures the disturbance in the thought field can be eliminated, or, at the very least, reduced.

Thought Field Therapy utilizes your body’s own healing system. As you experience TFT you will utilize your own inner personal therapeutic resources, your own ability to heal. This ability is provided to us simply as part of who we are as human beings.

Unfortunately, in our health care system, we customarily have come to believe that healing is a result of something outside of ourselves, such as something given to us, or something done to us. Examples include drugs, sometimes invasive procedures, or advice to do certain things and to live in certain ways, at the direction of others. We often feel little or no power to influence our own health outcomes. By contrast, TFT allows you to be intimately involved in your own healing.

Thought Field Therapy utilizes your body’s own healing system. Thought Field Therapy typically brings rapid and usually long lasting results. TFT is a therapy of relatively few words. You will not be asked to spend much time at all discussing the problem at hand. Compared to traditional psychotherapy, we will work very quickly. Although rare, when TFT treatment does not last, you and I can determine why this happened, so it will be unlikely to happen again.

TFT is drug-free and non-invasive. TFT requires that you put nothing into your body other than the energy used to tap on certain points on the body. Also, you will never be asked to stop taking prescribed medications. Thought Field Therapy practitioners do not do this. It is up to your medical health professional to make these decisions with you.

TFT does not result in re-traumatization. There no necessity of repeatedly going over and over an event or repeatedly talking about a problem, thereby reliving the trauma during each therapy session. In addition, if you are dealing with a trauma it makes no difference whether it happened 40 years ago or five days ago. TFT deals with trauma in the same way, regardless of how recent or long ago.

TFT is administered to yourself. You tap on specified points on your body, following prescribed tapping sequences.

TFT does not require that you believe in it in order to be effective, just as an antibiotic does not require belief in it in order for it to be effective.

TFT has no known side effects. TFT does no harm. TFT either helps you or does nothing. If it doesn’t help, it typically means that the root cause, or causes, of the problem have not been found and addressed.

Thought Field Therapy addresses your fears of the future and your pains of the past. Unfortunately, in the past, the field of traditional therapy has been rather unsuccessful in thoroughly healing these negative emotions, especially with any rapidity. However, if you choose to do so it is possible to take advantage of what Dr. Roger Callahan, TFT’s founder and developer, calls “a blessing of nature”. This means taking advantage of your own natural healing abilities through the use of Thought Field Therapy.

TFT-Voice Technology (TFT-VT) or Thought Field Therapy over the telephone is one of three levels of Thought Field Therapy. What you will experience in working with me is Thought Field Therapy-Voice Technology. While talking with me on the telephone, I will use your voice to determine the tapping sequences to help you. Another level, TFT-Diagnostics, is usually used by therapists who work face to face with you. TFT-Diagnostics utilizes kinesiology (muscle testing) to determine the specific tapping process for you. A third level of TFT uses treatment procedures that were developed out of the Diagnostic level for certain common problems.

TFT-VT is the Most Rapid and Efficient of the Three Levels of Thought Field Therapy

“I have heard of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Is TFT related to EFT?”
Using procedures learned from Dr. Callahan, Thought Field Therapy, and by combining basic tapping sequences, Emotional Freedom Technique was introduced by an individual named Gary Craig.

EFT works at a basic level, and can be effective in some situations. This is because EFT has certain elements of TFT embedded in it. However, EFT has none of the capabilities to address complex problems, many of which can be resolved rapidly and effectively with the more advanced techniques and procedures of TFT. Working at these advanced levels of TFT, a Callahan Techniques trained Thought Field therapist can rapidly determine the required tapping sequences for an individual seeking relief from a specific problem.

In addition, as a true scientist, Dr. Callahan is continually working to improve the effectiveness of TFT through observation in reality, objective testing, and replication.

Some Advantages of Telephone Treatment

TFT-Voice Technology over the telephone saves time and money because unseen costs exist in office settings. In office settings we usually do not think about hidden costs, such as gasoline, parking, wear and tear on the car, travel time, office overhead of the therapist, or perhaps child care arrangements and costs. Telephone treatment is often less costly by comparison when you add all the expenses up. Two outstanding additional advantages are that results are customarily rapid and little time is needed for discussion of the problem. Both of these features add to less money being spent by you.

Telephone treatment is available to you from wherever you are. From most places on the planet I can be reached by telephone. There are a number of low cost telephone plans available to consumers. Also, you will not be asked to adhere to the conventional practice of waiting days or weeks for an appointment with your care provider.

Telephone treatment can provide relative anonymity. Some people find they appreciate the fact that they do not have to interact with a therapist face-to-face. Also, this arrangement works particularly well for individuals who are anxious to get to the definitive issues without spending more and more money to use more and more time where solutions are often not realized.

If you would like some help in dealing with the many facets of grief and loss call me in the US at 919-562-7905 for a 15-minute free consultation or e-mail me at laux5737@centurylink.net to schedule an appointment.

Lois Sugarman, Ph.D. provides Thought Field Therapy telephone services for people experiencing a number of problems including loss and grief, anxiety, trauma, abuse, fears and phobias. She also utilizes TFT for those wishing to improve their performance in academics, business or sports. She provides her services over the telephone. She resides in Wake Forest, near Raleigh, North Carolina.