Borrowing Benefits

What is Borrowing Benefits?

Gary Craig, founder of EFT, discovered that in working with groups, each audience member can get resolution of their personal issues while tapping along with another person on that person's issue. All members of the audience are asked to choose an issue they would like help with. Then one (or more) audience member is selected to come up front to work with the workshop leader on their issue. All other audience members are asked to set aside their issue and tap along with the person up front. After the person up front gets resolution on their issue, audience members are surprised to find that their issue has also been resolved without focusing on it.

That means that many people can get resolution of their issues at the same time. Each person's issue can remain completely private.

As remarkable as this sounds, this phenomenon has been repeated many times. In 2003, I traveled to Arizona to study participants at one of Gary's borrowing benefits workshops. I found that all measures of psychological distress were significantly reduced and the results held up even after six months. I published the results of this study in the Counseling and Clinical Psychology Journal.