The Engineer’s Quest - From Stanford to the Soul

Before there was the "Tapping" of EFT as we know today, there was a search for efficiency. Gary Craig, a Stanford-trained engineer, didn't start in a therapy room; he started in the world of high-level performance and personal coaching. He was a master of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), but he realized that while the mind was powerful, it often left the body behind.

Gary’s journey took a pivotal turn when he met Dr. Roger Callahan, the creator of TFT (Thought Field Therapy). Callahan had discovered that by tapping on meridian points, one could collapse a phobia in minutes. But TFT was complex, it required specific "algorithms" for every different emotion.

Gary, with his engineer’s mind, saw a "Massive Bridge" waiting to be built. He wondered: What if we didn't need a specific code for every fear? What if there was a "Universal Basic Recipe" that could settle the nervous system regardless of the label?

This was the birth of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Gary took the clinical complexity of TFT and the linguistic precision of NLP and distilled them into a tool that anyone could use. He bridged the gap between elite clinical practice and everyday human relief. At Reframe Ahead, we honor this bridge every day, utilizing Gary's "Basic Recipe" as the first step toward safely exhaling.

The Universal Grand Slam - Democratizing the Healing Process

Gary Craig’s greatest gift to the world was his "Universal Grand Slam." He believed that the cause of all negative emotions was a "disruption in the body’s energy system." To Gary, Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and even Physical Pain were simply "Energetic Distruptions" in our internal wiring (The Meridians).

By creating the EFT Basic Recipe, Gary did something revolutionary: he gave the power of Nervous System Regulation back to the individual. He moved healing out of the sterile office and into the hands of the person in the middle of a panic attack or an ADHD "freeze."

Gary was famous for his "Palace of Possibilities" concept, the idea that our lives are limited only by the "writing on our walls" (the limiting beliefs we’ve collected). He taught us that by tapping while focusing on the "High Alert" feeling, we could literally rewrite that internal script.

He didn't just build a bridge between therapies; he built a bridge between Survival Mode and Freedom. For those of us working with Adult ADHD and RSD, Gary’s work provides the somatic "brake" that allows the racing mind to finally catch up with the calm body.

The Eternal Exhale - A Memorial for a Visionary

In Early January 2026, the world of healing lost a titan. Gary Craig passed away, leaving behind a legacy that has quite literally changed the face of trauma-informed care. But Gary’s bridge didn't end with him. It grew.

Karl Dawson who worked under Gary as well as 27 other Master EFT Practitioners took Gary's foundation and built the next span of the bridge: Matrix Reimprinting. By combining Gary’s tapping with the "Inner Child" work of the subconscious, we are now able to go deeper into CPTSD and Scarcity beliefs than ever before.

Gary Craig was a man of profound peace and generosity. He famously gave away his "Gold Standard" EFT manual for free, wanting nothing more than for the world to stop suffering. He was the personification of the "Safe Exhale."

At Reframe Ahead, we consider ourselves "Bridge-Keepers." Every time we help a client settle their anxiety or rewrite a belief of "not enough," we are walking the path Gary paved. We integrate his somatic precision with Clinical Hypnotherapy to ensure the bridge between your mind and your body is strong, stable, and leading you exactly where you need to be: Home.

The Ancent people of china, india who worked out about the energy system, Roger Callahan, Gary Craig. All were gaints bringing about peace to the world.. there are many more out there, creating and filling the world with oppurtunitites to release truma and distress from the Mind/Body and Soul. But just for one minute, as i write this, i thank Gary Craig for being part of my journey in this life,