Dr. Royal’s Important Discovery

In July, 1998, I received a phone call from a physician in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fuller Royal, MD, was calling me to report some exciting news about his use of Thought Field Therapy. Dr. Royal is Director of a medical clinic in Las Vegas.

Dr. Royal is a pioneer in exploring new treatments that may benefit his patients. He told me that he had been giving a lecture at a Southern California college. After the lecture a student asked if he were familiar with the Callahan Techniques. He was not, but based on what this student reported Dr. Royal called my office and requested information about Callahan Techniques Thought Field Therapy (TFT).

Dr. Royal is an excellent scientist as well as a good physician, and uses objective measures to judge the effectiveness of his various treatments. When I arrived in Las Vegas to observe how he was using TFT with his medical patients, he introduced me to a remarkable piece of equipment that measures HEART RATE VARIABILITY. The scientific advantage of this equipment which measures heart rate variability as well as the status of the autonomic nervous system, is that it is not responsive to placebo or suggestion. Among other things, it measures the degree of imbalance in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). When a person is under stress the ANS goes out of balance.

Dr. Royal showed me the HRV graphs of a number of patients, who he had helped dramatically with their complaining symptom with a simple TFT algorithm. The graphs showed clearly that the HRV dramatically improved in all cases tested that day. This result correlated with the patient’s report that the complaining symptoms were greatly reduced or completely gone!

I was surprised and excited by the effect of my simple TFT algorithm. If someone had asked me if my algorithm for a psychological problem might help a medical problem I would have replied, "Probably Not!" I never would have thought there could be such a physiological effect.

The improved HRV measurements confirmed for me the theoretical hypothesis that TFT addresses the control system for healing. We are actually tapping into nature’s healing system. Over the two decades I have been practicing my discoveries, I have had occasion to help various medical problems that were non-responsive to conventional approaches. These were always incidental to working with psychological problems which have been my specialty and my major interest for a half a century.