- Official EFT Tutorial
- Before You Begin
- PART I For Everyone: The EFT Tapping Basics
- Using EFT Tapping For Yourself
- Using EFT Tapping Professionally
- What is EFT? - Theory, Science and Uses
- How to do the EFT Tapping Basics - The Basic Recipe
- The EFT Constricted Breathing Technique
- Are You Satisfied With 20% of EFT's Tapping Possibilities?
- Strategies for Getting Started: Pain, Personal Peace, Physical Disease and More
- The Pros and Perils of EFT Tapping Scripts
- What can I expect from EFT Tapping?
- PART II For Everyone: Getting to the Roots of Your EFT Issues
- Intro to Part II
- Finding Aspects within the EFT Tapping Process
- Intro to Being Specific With EFT Tapping
- Testing Your EFT Tapping Work - The Triad
- Uncovering Specific Events - An Essential Concept Within the EFT Tapping Process
- The EFT Tell the Story Technique - The Workhorse Tapping Method
- What Should I Say During the EFT Tapping Process?
- The EFT Generalization Effect - A Big Step Toward Tapping Efficiency
- The EFT Personal Peace Procedure
- When to Use Global Approaches in the EFT Tapping Process
- The EFT Tapping Success Strategy
- PART III - Advanced: Additional Tapping Tools & Refinements
- Intro to Part III
- The EFT Movie Technique - A Useful Tapping Tool
- The EFT Tearless Trauma Technique
- Chasing the Pain - Deeper EFT Relief
- Cognitive Shifts - Belief Changes Within EFT
- Common EFT Challenges
- Emphasizing the Words - More Tapping Power When Needed
- Advanced Testing Techniques
- Testing The Tabletop
- Before You Move On To Deeper EFT Tapping Work...
- PART IV - Advanced: Tapping Deeper Into Emotional Issues
- PART V - Advanced: Polishing the Process & Expanding the Language
- EFT Bonus Articles
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Official EFT Tutorial
Welcome to The Gold Standard (Official) EFT Tapping Tutorial
NOTE: This highly popular method now has a powerful enhancement, Optimal EFT, a spiritual method that builds upon this Tutorial.
This is the official instruction package for the Tapping form of EFT. Easy step-by-step instruction. Climb this Ladder of Excellence as high as you want. Although remarkable benefits are possible, please consult physicians on all medical issues.

The Gold Standard
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It is the updated original from the EFT Founder from which hundreds of EFT and Tapping variations have been spawned worldwide (see About Those EFT Tapping Spin-Offs: A Candid Discussion). It is the result of $2 million and 30,000 hours of development. Last update: november 2019.
Important legal note: This entire Tutorial is free to anyone for his/her individual instruction. However, to maintain its integrity, express written permission from the authors is required before it can be promoted for commercial uses (e.g. EFT workshops, certifications, books, DVDs, mentoring, research, etc.). Further, no credentials are to be given reflecting Gold Standard EFT™, our EFT Tutorial™ or any form of endorsement by Gary Craig, Tina Craig, or EmoFree.com, without the express written consent of the authors.
To navigate through this Tutorial just use the convenient menu on the left hand side of this page.
Parts I and II contain the EFT TAPPING FOUNDATION for everyone.
In this section, self-helpers and professionals can learn all the basics.. Even 10 year old children can learn How to do the EFT Basics - The Basic Recipe and get results with Tapping. Further, we include in this section sophisticated details on delivering this vital healing tool with even greater skill. You will learn how to find hidden Aspects within the EFT Tapping Process as well as methods for Testing Your EFT Tapping Work and breaking down complicated issues into the Specific Events underlying them.
Just click on the appropriate links in the left hand menu and you can go, in step-by-step fashion, as far as your interest takes you. In other words, study as much of this foundation as you like and come back when you wish. In the meantime, you can use what you've learned and, when you return, you can easily resume where you left off.
Parts III through V contain ADVANCED EFT TAPPING material - for professionals and serious students.
This portion of the Gold Standard EFT Tutorial is for healing professionals and serious students. It assumes a solid understanding of the Foundational material described above. Just click on the appropriate links in the left hand menu and peruse the many Tapping refinements that allow you to produce symphonic uses of EFT.
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Please note: This Tutorial, while useful, was replaced in 2014 by my newest advancement, Optimal EFT. More efficient. More powerful. Full explanation given in my free, easy-to-read e-book, The Unseen Therapist.