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I am so sorry for your loss Gary I remember Coach from the DVDs and know he was an influential energy in your life.

I am sure he was very proud of you and the way you have lead your life

Safe Passage Coach Ben!

Gary, I'm sorry for the loss of your coach and mentor. It is true that he willl live on in all the people whose lives you have touched and it will continue out like the ripples on a pond. I am sure that he continued to think of you as the "great Gary Craig." Not everyone recognizes the gifts they are given by others and how to make the most of them. You did. And that is a trophy I'm sure he cherished.

I'm sorry for your loss Gary. Hopefully we all have someone like your coach in our lives that has given us the confidence to flourish and be happy. Kind words and actions last a lifetime and keep growing for the next generation.

Dear Gary,

We live our lives mired in the mundane confusions of egoic mind. This is, as you say, how the world works. However, when one life is infused by the loving insights and living example of another, such as Coach Ben, something amazing happens.  All the love and insights that Coach Ben inspired in you have been transfered, through your example,  to your students.  We in turn touch the lives of others through our example. To live one's life as a conduit of love is to live life most generously. The trophy of EFT is to live our lives generously. To offer ourselves as conduits of love, forgiveness, and healing.

I believe all healing is self healing and this healing begins when one person reaches out and touches another with love and the insights and understandings that beget forgiveness for self and others. We all touch others with our lives for good or ill.  However, when  a life  lived in the confusion of egoic mind has been touched  through EFT by the generosity of love; the power to heal and the courage to step out of the prisons of our own making is manifest.

Coach Ben has touched many many lives through you Gary. The dust returns to dust but the spirit remains in its power and glory. You have honored Coach Ben with your life as your students aspire to honor you through theirs. We are at the beginning of a healing experience that is going to express itself exponentially and thus forever change the world as we have known it. The beauty of EFT is that it is a self healing modality and as  each practitioner transmits this knowledge they empower their clients  to heal themselves. The root of the word generous relates to noble birth. That is the birth of the family of man living in a state of personal peace and true expression. I believe Coach Ben inspired you to live such a life and you in turn have inspired others. A team can not be about just one person. It is about each person  expressing that which they do best  and doing this for themselves, but, and most importantly, not only for themselves. I believe EFT is such a team.

Sincerely, Yona

Blessings to you Gary. One day there will be no more tears. Thanks for sharing EFT with the world in the spirit and brotherhood of your great coach.

Gary, it is good that you got to share your poem with Coach Ben while he was here on earth.  Thank you for sharing EFT and your poem with the world.  Know that both you and Coach Ben have touched many lives very deeply, and will continue to for generations to come.

Consolations for your sad loss, Gary.  Hoping that you feel inspired and speak powerfully at the memorial service.  I am sure that Coach Ben  would like you to lift people up on that important occasion.   Seeing as you do this on a daily basis, it should be easy peasy.

Captain, My Captain! <smile>

Thank  you Gary for sharing your story of Coach Ben and the true message of EFT.  The essence of the message is evident in all that you do to share EFT with all of us.  Blessings... Coach Ben and Coach Gary....

Dear Gary,

    The first time I watched your video of  the tribute you made to this great teacher in your life I was brought to tears.  Tears of joy for the gifts Coach Ben so freely offered you and joy that you were open to them and that you shared his gifts with all of us.  This teacher/coach that so touched your life, has touched mine as well.  

I know you will be comforted in this time of loss.

In Gratitude

Bonnie

Dear Gary,

Thank you very much for sharing your inspiring story, love, joy and gratitude!  Now Coach Ben can see through the eyes of God/Universe clearly how much you, his family and friends love him.  

Thank you very much for making a huge difference of the world, Gary!

In gratitude,

Angela

Gary,

Your reverence for Coach Ben and his principles is obvious.  Thank you so much for honoring him by living and passing along those principles to us.  I hope to honor you similarly.  

My wife and I discovered EFT about 18 months ago.  I have been sharing it with my substance abuse clients for about a year and experiencing great success. I have been studying the foundational courses/videos since last Christmas.

May the spirit of Coach Ben live through you always.  

Bill

Bright blessings to you, Gary. ...

Bright blessings to you, ... Coach Ben's family .. and all the lives he "touched" along his path this "turn of the wheel."

I hold the vision of focused strength and love sailing you through a heartfelt memorial to your dear friend in that genuinely optimistic "great Gary Craig" style.

Please know that the "well wishes" of your friends and those who's lives you too have touched, will calm the seas and fill the sails come Monday ...

Much love and Many blessings ...

Kimberly

May Peace Be the Echo Behind Our Every Word

Gary

Thank you dear heart for sharing so much with us. (breathe) Feel the whole community hug you right ----- now  

namaste

claudine

Gary,

Sorry for your loss. Its those folks that make the biggest impression on us who speak the truth about life. Be proud to have known him and be proud to have learned from him.

Many Thanks for all your positive influence on me,

Ana

To the Great Gary Craig, at last I have a way to say how delighted and blessed I am to have found EFT- thanks Coach Ben. Love. Blessings. Comfort. Strength. Together. Much gratitude, Auriol

Gary,

With gratitude and reverence for the powerful mentorship and love which he has poured into you, brother Gary (I hope that God one day grants me the privilege of meeting you face to face), I take my hat off in memory of a great man who has become the foundation of much of your greatness as a man, and now, of mine as well. My own service to the community through EFT has made me a blessing in many important ways. I wish to thank Coach Ben for being a powerful link in the chain upon which my life is gracefully suspended.

Thank you, Gary. Thank you Coach Ben. May you travel light.

Thank you, Gary, and thank you, Coach Ben, for sharing your gifts so naturally and generously, so unpretentiously. And Gary, for finding once again the words that remind us of what is most important in life!

Blessings,

Heike

Gary,

Since the first moment I watched your tribute several years ago, the Coach Ben feeling passed from your chest to mine and has remained there permenantly in a very positive way . It encompasses all emotion, fragility and strength that can be suspended between two people. You shared that powerful human story with the world and shared the gift.

Today, I send you back that strength and support. It is returned expotentially with the knowledge that your love has helped so many others find there strength and freedom.

Love to all that knew Coach Ben

Love Christine Moran

Thanks for sharing this Golden Boy!

Gary, these notes of guidance come out of you at lightning speed!

Or no, not random lightning, no  ... the speed a baseball hits a bat with aim and a satisfying thwack!

I value your consistent and constant drive for excellence in the central tenets of EFT, one of which is itself persistence. Thanks to you AND Coach Ben AND whoever he learned from AND beyond, thanks for the reminder again today, to keep working at stepping up to the mark, every day anew. Sadness on Saturday? Tempered with so much Joy and Gratitude and spread so far.

With cheer.

thanks coach ben for bringing the great gary craig into our lives,a gentle,kind inspiration to us all.

Gary,

Thank you so much for sharing the news of Coach Ben's passing with all of us. Your tribute to him on the video was so moving. You are very blessed to have had such a wonderful being in your life who was able, through you, to reach out an touch all of us. One person can make a huge impact on the world. My gratitude to you and Coach Ben.

Coach Ben sure sounds like a man after Christ's own heart. You have

lived such a life, yourself, Gary, and continue to.....thank you so much.

God bless you!

Gary, Thank you for sharing your tribute to Coach Ben with us. A very inspiring poem and it shows that one person can light a candle and dispel the darkness.  Just imagine the number of other lives Coach Ben touched. Then look at the number of lives you have touched and are continuing to touch (perhaps "tap" is the more appropriate word). You "tapped" me just about 5 weeks ago and already I've been passing EFT on.

Thanks for the memory of Coach Ben, thanks to you for "engineering" such a technique.   Tap.Tap, Tap..................

hello gary,

thank you for sharing this with us, i know your coach through the DVD series and the poem you said for him.

I am sure he will be around during the ceremony on Saturday.

with warm thoughts

Gary,

Please allow me to Express my sorrow for your loss. In fact for all of our loss. It's not often that persons come along who recognize the power they have and use it to shape FOREVER the minds and hearts of those that they touch. Sometime the measure of a man isn't taken until after he'' gone. But you had a chance to honor your COACH while he lived. You gave him his flowers while he lived, and you shared him with us. All of our lives have been enriched because of your love and respect for your COACH.Your poem in beautiful and moving. Aren't you glad COACH got to hear it?

A long hug and a deep breath to you Gary,

Yvonne,

From my own little desolate corner of the world on the Arizona Strip, I have loved you, Gary, and have always felt such gratitude for the blessing of EFT in my life.  Today, I feel great love for Coach Ben, and thank God for his guiding spirit, which -- as you know -- will live on forever as the world continues to heal, one tap at a time.  Coach Ben is with us still, for in the end, we are all one.  

Dear Gary,

You are my hero!

Thanks for being you,

Millard

As sad as we are that Coach Ben has passed from us, I take great joy in knowing how happy he is in God's presence.  As someone wise said to me after my mother's death, "It's not lost if you know where it is."

Blessings on you, our dear Gary,

Kristy

I'm sorry for your loss, Gary.  I liked your poem when I heard it the first time on your DVD's. Love is such a mystery, yes? Here is a poem for you by Henry Van *** that I share about passings:

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come together to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says, "There she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me. Not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

Peace & Blessings

The difference just one person can make to hundreds and then thousands of other's lives.  Coach Ben.  How many other Greats are out there because Coach Ben called them great...and meant it.  And so it was believed.  And so they are.  As the Great Gary Craig wrote, "The only thing that separates us from great and mundane is our thoughts."  And our thoughts are with you, Captain.

Gary,

What an incredible and moving poem you wrote for your Coach, I cried with your closing lines (my son is not quite a year old) I only hope that I can pass on to my son the inspiration that you received from Coach Ben and that I received from you today.

Thank you,

Patrick

I was very touched by your tribute to your coach in the DVD which I only viewed recently.   We all have special people in our lives. I'm sorry yours has gone but so glad that you met him in the first place and that he has left you with such wonderful memories that of course last forever.    Thank you for the EFT which is giving us all memorable moments in our own lives.

Gary,

How wonderful that Coach Ben was such a blessing in your life. He's still with you and all the boys whose lives he touched. He always will be. We are blessed to have been touched by him through you. May we all continue to reach out to those who need us. With you to guide our way we will honor his memory as long as we all live.

Give yourself a hug...

Thank you, Gary.

Gary:  Along life's way, we encounter obstacles, joys, lessons, love.....etc. etc......and my own PERSONAL belief is that we are here to learn and grow into better people.

Let me say that I am truley sorry for the loss of your friend.  Let me also add a wee little thing.  Gary, I am sure he learned a lot from you as well, because there are few people in this world with your insight, gentle ways and giving nature.  When life gets tough, I am grateful that there are kind folks like you......You are a humble wonderful man...Thank you

Gary that is a touching story, it reminds me of my father, also a great friend who looked as though he would eat you alive yet had a heart the size of a mountain, a ski coach who was as hard and demanding and a neighbour who was a simple mountain farmer but a giant amongst his community. Like coach Ben each lead by example. I remember the short moments spent in their company and yet I have an eternity of guidance in those memories.

In your story you thought you had finally got the message from coach Ben. Just wait and see what comes every time you need that guiding hand. The paradox is the real learning is just beginning

You may not be able to touch Coach Ben again but you can see, hear,talk to him and  learn more than ever before.

Knowing they are no longer may leave an empty space somewhere but just let them step back into that space and you will find they start a whole new life as your personal life coach and a friend forever.

Robert Denton

He's in a better place, Gary.

And we're all better people for having crossed his path...

Ken

Dear Gary

Thank you for everything.  I will be thinking of you on Saturday celebrating Ben's inspirational life. With love and hugs from Mair

Thank you for sharing ... I read your every newletter ... and this is a lovly, loving tribute ... yes, there are people like this that we get to meet ... we are so blessed. EFT's to you on Saturday with love. L

Would like to know if any of your subscribers have used EFT for Restless Leg Syndrome?

Happy Days!  Sooooo Glad to have discovered YOUR site again!  I first found your web site in the summer of 2006 -- what a blessing.  From the beginning I knew both you, Gary, and your web site were something genuinely extraordinary.  After downloading and studying the manual I ordered all of the DVD sets and began working with EFT in earnest both with myself and clients.  Each Newsletter arrival was the first email to be opened.  And I found them always to be both inspirational and motivators for delving more deeply into EFT.  It became my first choice in working with clients for many, many kinds of issues.  

Hoping to learn more from the "masters" -- I took both the Level I and Level II-Advanced course workshops.  Both were a waste of time, money, and effort.  I was hugely disappointed at the superficial level and poor quality of training offered (as well as the incredulous conduct of one of the 2 instructors who apparently in an effort to liven up the class chose to get up on one of the tables and dance to the rather nerve jarring music she decided to play on her boombox!)  I came away from the second workshop disenfranchised and far less enthusiastic about the modality.  However, after tapping on it I realized that it was "her/their" workshop -- not yours.

Then came the news that the "Group" was taking over the training/certification program and that things were going to be very different.  I never knew how it happened but all of a sudden I no longer received your newsletters, and it was as if a light had gone out.  Although deeply saddened by no longer hearing from a friend I had never met -- I went to the other group's web site and signed up for the newsletter -- thinking it would provide the interesting and helpful information your original web site had always been chockful of.  Not so -- and after an issue or two, I unsubscribed.  I stumbled on Pat Carrington's EFT web site, and subscribed to her "new" EFT Newsletter. As a psychologist myself, I greatly respected her experience and thought her web site would provide similar helpful information.  However, that, too, was a major disappointment.  Always there was the HUGE spread of her name across the top of each "newsletter," broken links, duplicate emails, continuing apologies for various and sundry errors on the web site, and basically nothing but a blurb to sign up for the next tele-course or buy her books or CDs or whatever.  Not seeing your name anywhere on the "Summit" thing I didn't register for it, and later unsubscribed from the mail list as they never seemed to contain anything of real value.

What a joy it was to re-discover your web site again today and sign up for YOUR Newsletters -- and to learn that you are still "at the helm" of this wonderful healing tool.  I applaud your decisions with regard to EFT, the vastly improved requirements for training/certification, and the re-emergence in my life of someone who puts EFT rather than personality or ego before the tool!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you -- you are a shining light in a world so much in need of it.  Now that I know the training will come from the source, I am looking forward to taking the Level I Exam in the near future.

Peace, Blessings, and Great Joy to You!

Dear Gary, you may be familiar with this poem.Your gift is amplified by the fact that you were receptive to Coach ben's guidance.:

Do not stand by my grave & weep

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thowsand winds that blow

I am a diamond glint on snow

I am the sun light on ripened grain, I am the gentle automn rain.

When you awake in the morning hush,I am the swift uplifting rush, of qiet birds in a circular flight.I am the soft starshine at night.Do not stand by my grave & cry

I am not there... I did not die.

Hi Gary,

I had a very influential uncle pass away earlier this year.

We all experience these things differently... but I don't think it is ever easy.

I found this video very moving... and I thank you for sharing with us!

keep smiling,

Ben

God Bless.

thank you coach Ben,

thank you Gary...

love

Wim

Gary,

Your e-mail newsletters that come so faithfully remind me of the time I knew you in Sacramento before EFT.  It makes me happy to see how your disciplne and courage have made the world a better place, and it inspires me to continue on my own path.  Thank you for sharing with us so much of your own journey.  And, I am sorry for the loss of your mentor and coach.

Gary,

Thank you for your advice.  Since I was 13 years old, I have picked up knowledge from good men.  I began learning again at age 78.  You have had the most influence on my life at this time.  My birth date is 5/17/1929 and still learning.

Frank

Dear Gary,

We have enjoyed your EFT e-mail newsletters very much. They inspire us to keep tapping for ourselves and our students. We enjoy the energy, joy and wisdom of the reports from around the world.  Our condolences for the loss of your coach Ben.

Much love & light,

Jack Bray, M.A., C.P.G., C.T.

Thank you Gary and Coach Ben,

It is an honor to pass on EFT and I, more than likely would have passed it by had it not been for your kind and generous demeanor.  Coach Ben probably had something to do with that as well.  The lesson for me is that everything we say and do carries forward.  It is etched in everyone we touch and everyone that they touch along life's path.  It is a good thing to be aware.  EFT has helped me to grow in so many ways and we all affect others in one way or another with each contact we make.  We either encourage or discourage with every meeting.

Dear Gary,

I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing the inspiration as always.

Best wishes,

Dewan

Dearest Gary

I am so sorry to hear of your sad loss . coach Ben must have been a true inspiration to you .... love and prayers always

                                 Julie

Sorry for your loss Gary.

We all have a coach Ben with us if only we can open

our minds to it.Thank you so much for your inspirational news letters Gary

Love

Dorrette

Peace be with you and all who were blessed by knowing your Coach Ben. His legacy is changing the world!

Love Gabrielle

Dear Gary,

Hearfelt condolences to you and Coach Ben's family.

I know that Coach Ben has been a great role model and his exemplary life

has influenced  your life and through you, ours. I feel blessed to

be one of the countless people who feel a sense of gratitude for his wonderful

presence  on this planet. A teacher has the power to affect eternity.............which

is what Coach Ben did.

You, dear Gary, have followed his footsteps and have no idea of the extent to

which you have influenced, motivated and inspired multitudes.

I pray for his family and for you. May God give you all the strength to cope with this

irreparable loss. May his soul rest in peace.

Namaste,

Bhagyalakshmi

So sorry for your loss, Gary ...

Thanks for sharing Coach Ben with us.  He's been  a great inspiration :)

Blessings

Fiona

As coach Ben inspired you, you have inspired all of us, Gary. Bless you for the generosity of spirit that you learned from him and have taught to us through EFT.

Dear Gary,

Your words, thoughts and feelings do Coach Ben honor.  You and Mr. Hammerschmidt's families are in my heart during this time of transition.  I remember the poem you recited on one of the DVDs about Coach Ben and it was clear how important this great man was to you.  My hats off and my deepest Gratitude to Coach Ben for helping to shape you into the master teacher you have become, and for teaching through example so that his teachings would reach so incredibly far and wide, changing us, changing the world for the better.  

What wonderful remarks! It is obvious just how much you are respected and loved, by these people you have influenced.  We who teach and hopefully lead by example, know our success by the actions and appreciation of those whose lives we touch. How nice that these students of yours ~get it~!  Thanks for sending these comments to me, so I can try to heal;;;;;;;;;;dad is still very real to me;;;;;;;;;I need to realize that he gave everything he could, physically, and now will continue to do so through those of us who listened well. I always told my students, for 42yrs., I wish my dad could have raised them, as well.  They would answer: he is, through you, Ms. Jones! Gary, you have always carried the torch;;;;;;;;;;;;;for that I am grateful, and I will share these comments with the family and friends.  Again, thanks;;;;;;;;love ya, Nancy Hammerschmidt Jones